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ILikeRust

ILikeRust

You could buy some from the man himself.

ILikeRust

Advance warning: I have, on several occasions in the past, explained to my wife that I am working towards my "curmudgeon" merit badge. She has told me I'm well on my way to earning it. Having said the foregoing, I would scrape/sand the old name off, stick the new name on, put the boat in t...

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You should have seen what passed for a "battery box" that was in there before I tore it out and put in the new one. If that can last for several years (which it evidently did), mine should last for 30.

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SIX layers of fiberglass for a box that will be inside the boat??? Seems like way overkill to me. I just built a new battery box for my 1968 Pearson, and a new bulkhead for in front of the engine. Both are made of a combination of solid wood (ripped and planed from standard construction-grade 2x lum...

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Gotta love those old Pearsons.

I say this as the owner of a 1968 Pearson Wanderer.

If you haven't already, I suggest you sign up over at the Moyer Marine Atomic 4 forum.

Great resource for us owners of old A4s.

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Poor fella - he's puking rope.

Or if you look at him differently, he's very happy and has a big chin (ala Jay Leno) and a rope necktie.

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So of course, August has come and gone. But I now am getting closer and closer to actually having the boat ready for launch. I spent all day last Sunday and all day today up there working on her. Here is how the engine looked at the end of last weekend - I started hooking up the brand-new heat exhan...

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Funny - I don't have any pics myself, but visiting their website, I find this pic of my boat in their "gallery of recent work": http://app.onlinephotofiler.com/img2/A_3/8/3/7/197383/1/c8c59bcde67b46fca9f4dd50d9e8c8d1.JPG As you can see, it's a three-bow bimini, to cover as much of the cock...

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Sounds expensive to me. I just had a brand-new dodger, bimini and sail cover made for my 1968 Pearson Wanderer. This included removing and disposing of the old dodger frame, measuring for and fabricating a new bimini frame and dodger frame of heavy-wall stainless tubing, with all stainless fittings,...

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I re-bedded the leaking fixed port lights in my 1968 Pearson Wanderer - the aluminum frames seem to be pretty much identical to yours. I used butyl tape and thus far it's working like a charm. Time will tell... I bought the butyl tape from an RV parts and supply place - as recommended by Maine Sail....

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You know, it's pretty sad how so many people think they are so much more clever than they actually are.

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Wow, that's a pretty sweet little boat!

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Well, I'm not a master shipwright or anything, but I do know that there are choices for something like that. It largely depends on what you want it to look like. It's hard to go wrong with teak or Honduras mahogany for that nice, traditional sailboat look. I would do some internet searching - you wi...

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Yeah, that looks like it could be Honduran mahogany. Beautiful stuff and a little harder and stronger than some of the other mahoganys. The trouble with "mahogany" is that there are various woods that people refer to as "mahogany." Some mahoganies are actually pretty soft. I have...

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For something like that, I would stick with teak or angelique. You do not want red oak on your boat. Red oak is not rot-resistant and does not weather well. Not only that, it is what's known as a ring-porous wood, which makes it grainy and porous. It tends to be stringy and splintery to work with, a...

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Oak?

What kind of oak?

And in what application? (E.g., exterior? Interior? Structural? Decorative?)

White oak: ok.

Red oak: no way.

If at all possible (and it is, for a price), stick with teak, mahogany, angelique...

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My boatyard reports on its web site that they've found no damage to report, so I guess that means at least no boats fell over in the yard. I'm sure I'll find some water inside when I finally make it up there. I'll probably head up this weekend. My house is far enough west that we got a bunch of wind...

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Thanks for that link, Ric. My boat is on the hard, inside the 80-100 zone too - in Deltaville.

Lovely.

Oh well, at this point, it's prepared as well as it's going to be. And I just paid my Boat U.S. premium, so I know I'm as covered as I can be. We shall see.

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Keep me in the loop, too, please!

Once I get my boat wet again, we'll have to do a little flotilla-ette or something.

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My boat is still on the hard in Deltaville since I had her hauled in January. I did, however, just get a brand-new, custom-made bimini and dodger. They look great. Since I can't get up there myself in time for Irene, I called the canvas maker and they were kind enough to run over there and take them...

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Yeah, we were talking about this one over at the Wooden Boat Forum. A regular member there lives up on the Northern Neck and went over and checked the boat out. His conclusion was: "she's so rotten, you could eat her with a spoon." As you can see from the pics, she's terribly hogged. I thi...

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Do a little research on template routing. You can make a template from that hole, using a piece of tempered hardboard (e.g., Masonite) and use a bearing-guided router bit with template routing collars to make pieces that will match it perfectly, then epoxy them in.

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Pretty nice-looking Typhoon for sale in Barnegat, NJ:

http://annapolis.craigslist.org/boa/2517537362.html

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Did you consider hauling the boat closer to Richmond, up the James river? Nope. The boatyard where it currently sits is right across the Piankatank and Hills Bay from the marina where I usually keep it. I originally planned to have her on the hard only for about 3-4 months. It just snowballed a bit...

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Dunno if this counts as a "classic," but it sure is a sweet-looking little beauty:

http://norfolk.craigslist.org/boa/2510894829.html

Man, I'm tempted.

I think my wife would file the involuntary commitment papers if I even suggested it.

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I would be interested in that measurement from aft end of mast to break between cabin and cockpit. I would also be curious to see a picture of the bilge area under the engine, although the access may limit what can be seen. Just interested to see how much room there is under there to work with, is ...

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Let me know what data points or photos you might like to see and I'll write myself a note to collect the info next time I head up to the boatyard (probably next weekend; it's supposed to be too ridiculously bloody hot this weekend again to go up there and work on her).

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OK, nope, looks like I never posted it here. This is a pic the P.O. provided when he was advertising the boat for sale, and I just kept it - you can see the dinghy on the foredeck: http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu207/ilikerust/Grizabella/Vagabondatanchor.jpg And the P.O. and his wife in the wat...

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I will say that -- considering your dinghy-on-cabintop desire -- the Coaster/Wanderer give you less cabin-top dinghy space than some of the slightly smaller boats (similar 28 and 29 footers), from what I have seen. The P.O. of my boat kept an 8-foot stitch-and-glue marine ply dinghy on the foredeck...

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radicalcy wrote:When you have time one day, could you come by and help me hook up a harness for bench testing my A4?

Hey Larry, did you ever get around to this?

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In fact, come to think of it, I just remembered this little tidbit - The guy I bought the boat from included in among all the big pile of paperwork an article from one of the older sailng magazines, about boat stability. I'll have to dig it up, but as I recall, the essence of it was a discussion abo...

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I'm up in the air about centerboards, they allow wonderful gunk-holing, but take-up a lot of the bilge area. I also wonder about the ultimate stability, because the ballast does not sit as deep in the water. I would not worry one bit about the stability of the Wanderer. There is 3,800 lbs. of lead ...

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Because that's how Indigo recommends it to be installed, for proper operation of the valve.

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Is that a loose-footed main? I would have thought those grommets along the foot were for slugs to slide in the track on the boom. You can buy after-market hooks that replace the pin on the gooseneck - or, you can buy (or rig up yourself) a separate reefing hook with a short section of line (and some...

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You have done some beautiful work. Love that fire engine red. Thanks! ...and miles to go before I sleep. Still have lots of work to do. I like the lines and general design of the Wanderer very much, but keep wondering how much bilge is left after all the space taken up by the centerboard. From your...

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I have never stopped in Nauty Nell's. I've driven right by it many times. I always got the impression it was a foofy gifte shoppe, full of tchotchkies and decor items, not actual, usable marine salvage. Guess I'll have to stop in and take a look.

Thanks for the heads-up.

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Yes, I'm looking for a matched pair. I'd like to find a marine salvage place in Virginia somewhere - like Minney's in the Los Angeles area. When I was out in L.A. in June, an acquaintance of mine took me over to Minney's and wow, what a great place. Maybe I should start a business like that myself, ...

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The dorade cowl vents (scoops) on my boat are old (original, for all I know) and are made out of some kind of heavy plastic. Seems like maybe some kind of PVC or vinyl. They're white. Well, they once were white. And it looks like the interior originally was red. Somewhere along the way, a prior owne...

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A while back there was some discussion about oscillating-head tools, such as the Fein Multimaster (scroll down on the linked page to see the discussion). Well I finally broke down and bought the Porter-Cable version. Not for my boat - although there is no doubt I will use it for that - but because I...

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The best part is that, even with the PTO shaft and pulley for the freshwater cooling kit on the front of the engine, there is still enough room behind where the bulkhead will go that I don't have to relocate it. I was not sure whether I would have to move the bulkhead forward a couple inches, but I ...

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http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu207/ilikerust/Grizabella/Engine%20Overhaul/0722110743.jpg On the left, you can see my shiny new through-hull. On the right, the support for the new battery box I'm not quite done building yet. Also, all that white stuff: the @"#$*&@^! bilge paint that n...

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http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu207/ilikerust/Grizabella/Engine%20Overhaul/0722110728a.jpg I said to the guy, "I dunno - you think that crane is big enough to lift this engine?" He replied, without missing a beat, "I could go get the big one." Apparently, this is their &quo...

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Well it most definitely is no longer spring, but I'm most definitely not yet done with "what I'm doing with my boat, 2011." But I am making progress. Got up at 5:00 a.m. today (played hooky from work), hit the road at 5:30 and was at the boatyard at 7:02 a.m. The Atomic 4 on the tailgate: ...

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I managed to stumble across scanned images of the original brochures for the Pearson Wanderer. Then as I was thumbing through the big fat stack of papers that came with mine, I discovered not only the original brochure, but also the original bill of sale showing that it sold for about $16,000. In 19...

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Ric, you're not helping me resist the one that's at the Deltaville Boatyard's "Field of Dreams." It's been there for a while now and just this past weekend, I saw that they now had set up the mast and standing rigging. I guess they're trying to show it off better. It needs a fair amount of...

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I recently saw a very large sailboat in the boatyard and was surprised to see a wood transom. As I got up closer to it, I started questioning whether it was, in fact, wood. Upon getting right up close to it, I could see that it was, in fact, fiberglass, very well-painted to look like wood. It was ex...

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Mine is not frozen, as I could rotate the crank and move the sliding car back and forth along the boom. It just wouldn't stay where I put it. Maybe the ratchet mechanism on the crank (I'm assuming there is one) is rusted frozen.

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