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Robert The Gray

From what i can see, the older guy in the orange jacket is doing all the lifting while the guy I can't see is taking all the pictures. Tell me Tim, is this the way you run a job site? making your dad do all the dirty work? maybe you are the only one who knows how to work the camera. All in fun. I ca...

Robert The Gray

be still my luffing heart
there carves history
before me as in my poetic memory
of tar and fellows jack pulling rope til blood
spilled down the scuppers into the salty northern sea
leaving crimson wakes in our plastic dreams
build on lads and lassies
build on

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Robert The Gray

got to get that puppy some boat shoes! try here

http://www.handsnpaws.com/product/FX1GO ... Angle.html

Robert The Gray

It's ALIVE!

IT'S ALIVE!!!

Robert The Gray

The stock Triton Yawl sail plan has the main mast back stay attach just to starboard/port of the transom center line. On tikvha it looks like the PO increased the size of the mizzen by lowering the boom. I think on the original plan the mizzen boom is as high as the main boom. If you look closely at...

Robert The Gray

That production method must have been the one adopted by Aeromarine out here. I had half round cardboard tubes to support my un-cored side decks, and foredeck. The layup was an average of 5/8", then maybe two layers of cloth over the tubes. Nothing in the cabin top, but an athwartships tube und...

Robert The Gray

the only way I was ever able to get any real work done on my boat was to remove the mainsail off the boom and remove the boom as well. Really, I had to disable the boat to work on her. I don't think I went so far as to cut a hole in the hull as you have but I don't have one of the fancy zip tools. N...

Robert The Gray

http://www.plasticclassicforum.com/view ... n+staysail

this links to my old boat.

I show the mizzen staysail in flight in some of my films as well, look at warmday

i built the sail from a sailrite kit

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As a for profit enterprise I would second Tim's assessment. I do feel that The idea has merit as a non profit. There are quite a few bred specific dog rescue organizations. I could see a Triton rescue organization. I mean no bias but out here in the west we rarely see soft decks, I have never heard ...

Robert The Gray

The rowing worked and after about 15 minutes I got through the lee just fine. Had a few round ups with the mizzen stay sail (mss) after getting into the full breeze. when the winds are 20 + in the gusts i can only point at a deep broad reach. If i get above that the mss gets creates a lot of heel. b...

Robert The Gray

I am not sure but I think a wooden boat will last longer in the water rather then drying out on a cradle during a long rebuild of the interior or what ever. Turning her into a house boat could be quite cheap. If you really decide not to sail her you could remove the mast (shudder). If you had good s...

Robert The Gray

Careening a boat is a good method to get at parts of the bottom to clean them, I use it to scrub my triton's bottom. It can also be used to service near the waterline through hulls. As a method to get to the mast head though careening would be hard. Getting the tip of the mast to where you are stand...

Robert The Gray

thanks ray.

Robert The Gray

Bill, OK, Can you even sleep? If I had a boat looking like Bolero does now I would find it hard to concentrate on anything. I imagine you have been making the proper sacrifices and saying the right prayers to the freeway gods for the trip across the country. I'll bet every little river, stream, and ...

Robert The Gray

Good day on the bay. The smoke has gone a bit and the breeze got on. Pushed the iron beast north over the first bit where I had a nice fire and lunch with a radio listen behind brooks island. Then had a long bit of starboard and then a long bit of port, maybe a bit more back and forth. Saw three bar...

Robert The Gray

zach,

this is the link to my yawl conversion and it has several photos of triton side decks

http://web.mac.com/robertthegray/iWeb/T ... rsion.html

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Tim and Allen, congrats upon the placing of Kaholee back in her proper element. Just as planes look more graceful when flying, boats look as they should when floating upon the flat line of the water. While I understand that trailers and travel lifts have their place in the modern world, it must have...

Robert The Gray

In a pathetic attempt to make my spewing relevant I made up the fact that I was familiar with Sweden. I was in the Navy SeaBees and stationed in Guam and Sicily. So my foreign language skills include several useful construction expletives in Italian, Tagalog, and Chamoro, but alas no Swedish. I was ...

Robert The Gray

to quote some unknown Wiki source "Around 1850 A.D., a British merchant service captain, Charles Noble, upon discovering that the stack of his ship's galley was made of copper, ordered that it be kept bright. Then onwards, the ship's crew then started referring to the galley smokestack as the &...

Robert The Gray

When I was crewing on a submarine support ship stationed out of Oslo, I had the chance to hear a tale of a woman who used to haunt the docks and boat yards of Sweden. My chief at the time was a guy by the name of Chuck Nobel. He was drunk when he told me this story but he always lied when he was sob...

Robert The Gray

looks great Noah! those jam cleats at the back of the halyard winch are crazy. How are you supposed to use all of them? I like the size of your beam and the traveler will serve you well.

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Robert The Gray

B,

Is there a way to check what info you have on our boats? I know I entered my data into a matrix on some site or other.I would love to tell you all but do not want to clutter.

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Robert The Gray

When regarding the capacities of old boats for offshore work I feel that often there is a confusion between the "design" and the specific "boat". When I was selling my triton there were a number of people looking for a world rounding pocket cruiser for under $10,000. I think that...

Robert The Gray

Our family had a squall when i was a lad. they were not lasers but they had some nice features. The swinging centerboard was a nice idea, I liked that it had its own additional floatation to make it unsinkable. It is heavy, we had it on davits off the stern of a big 35 foot motor sailor. tough boats...

Robert The Gray

At the risk of becoming an apostate, I have covered my old pink fiberglass sole with a layer of drideck and grass carpet. At cost plus they sell woven grass carpet in one foot by 8 foot strips for $10 dollars a strip. The triton cabin sole takes two. I replace them each season. I like the grass carp...

Robert The Gray

roll on captain, roll on.

Robert The Gray

I lead the outlet to an above the water line exit with no sea cock. I did not intend to use the boat for extensive off shore cruising. It works great, and makes a gurgling sound when on starboard tack.

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Robert The Gray

update:
I have found a buyer for whisper, we will have a period of sharing the boat over the summer and then he gets the title in sep. Great deal for the both of us. his name is Michael.

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Robert The Gray

I wondered how much of your design of the bolero concept has included some kind of cruising tent or cover to extend the interior space of your cabin. I could imagine a peaked tent attached under the boom with supports to extend the roof out to the gunnel. It seems that your are asking an awful lot o...

Robert The Gray

Ha! I'm with fig. Obviously the shine is from the snow surrounding the hull. I have no snow where I am so my hull is not as shiny. And what's so big about shine anyway, I mean the fish don't like it because it hurts their eyes. The birds are distracted because of all the "special" refracti...

Robert The Gray

You're really doing well in the video. Do you remember the boat that took the picture? He looks to be uncomfortably close. Bill Ganges #363 I kinda remember the day, but i sail there all the time. he was not too close, there are several convergence zones on the bay where a lot of sail boats will en...

Robert The Gray

The second film is Whisper.

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Robert The Gray

I really can't type that much. And another thing they have land in america that costs only $17,000? wood boat in ecuador, I don't know...

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Robert The Gray

tony

You might want an "always on" lead to the stereo to keep the preset memory of stations. I may be misreading your diagram.

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Robert The Gray

Good suggestions all, but, not to display to much of my underwear, I am primarily liquidating an asset not just cutting monthly costs. Thanks for your suggestions. It is really quite affordable to keep a boat in the Bay as jollyboat has said. I mostly daysail and find that my sailing doubles when I ...

Robert The Gray

I second fusto's recommendation. They stay up.

Robert The Gray

Great responses every one and of course I am and will forever be a sailor. I have this page seared into my bookmarks. Fantastic list Tim, and just the thing I was looking for. I do agree a more practical ad would draw in the buyer I am looking for, but thanks for your appreciation of the writing. I ...

Robert The Gray

Hello all, I have decided for a variety of reasons to part with my Triton. I intend to put her on the market around March. I have a limited amount of time and money to spend on the boat to prepare her for fetching the highest price. In the experience of the members of this forum: What some general r...

Robert The Gray

to add to tim's list: no obvious holidays or paint gaps proper masking around edges so the paint covers everything that is intended and no paint on surfaces that do not get paint i.e. the rub rail, or any teak. no runs or drips the right color the right number of coats I feel like in a lot of painti...

Robert The Gray

there must be some wacko mojo in that nor west coast beano. you are telling me there was only coffee at those "planning sessions"? HA! You guys had a couple of shots of daysailor rum!! Now the question is, when are you spraying the high build primer onto that lovely prepared surface? looks...

Robert The Gray

I feel I can assume that we all derive great joy from the from all aspects of boat work, both the concrete reality of materials and gravity, as well as the intangible put vital works of the mind and imagination. At times the hands and eye guide the mind, at others mind to hand. On every cruise I rea...

Robert The Gray

Beautiful pics, And i gotta say the sunrise over this beached boat in mass is quite stunning. golden thread this one.

[quote="Tim Mertinooke"]

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Robert The Gray

hey all, took some shots on sunday as the sun was setting over the golden gate. they were not in focus but I like the colors. http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f11/robertthegray/IMG_0327.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f11/robertthegray/IMG_0316.jpg http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f11/robert...

Robert The Gray

zach, I haven't spent that much time sailing with the heater going, but the charley noble does get hot. If you are planing to run your halyards aft the stack goes up right in that area so plan ahead before you cut the hole. Thanks for your complement on the wood work. I, of course, can see the flubs...

Robert The Gray

this will link to a construction picture of my solid fuel stove install http://web.mac.com/robertthegray/iWeb/THE%20BOB/Interior%20Re-fit_files/P5260008.jpg finished picture http://web.mac.com/robertthegray/iWeb/THE%20BOB/Interior%20Re-fit_files/P1010064.jpg I wrote some where here about how I would...

Robert The Gray

f,

glad to help the great cause of curmudgenry!

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Robert The Gray

I can remember my firsts few attempts at single handed anchoring under sail. The first time I realized that it was not a good idea to be on the fore deck with the genoa raised and sheeted in. When the boat self tacks that big ol flat sail will pop right into the briny deep. You can end up having to ...

Robert The Gray

Hello to tim and all and sundry, Just a message to my favorite online community saying thanks for the photos, thanks for the jokes, thanks for the tips, advice, and heavy knowledge. Thanks tim for hosting one of the bestest forums on the planet, of course aside from mother rutabaga's root recipes wh...

Robert The Gray

On my triton I can gain steerage in about 30 seconds and get up to 1.5 knots in 1.5 minutes with my sweeps. But only on flat water with no wind if in chop or wakes I slow way down. If I lived on a lake, oars would be all I need, except for the lakes of great of course. In tidal waters, in waters wit...

Robert The Gray

I have found that the sight lines through these forward ports can be very different when heeled over. Your head positions changes and often all you can see is sky or water. As far as the inboard outboard placement of the ports i would want to see under the foot of the head sail to leeward for approa...

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