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Bluenose

I don't think the growth looks bad at all--no worse than you see with any traditional copper-based paint. Considering the length of your season, and the fact that the slime you see tends to magically appear in great quantities only during the final weeks of the season (assuming your conditions are ...

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I have been using ePaint products for the last 4 or 5 years and have generally been pretty happy with them. Occasionally I have been asked about my experiences with their products and haven't been able to provide much useful info since my sailing seasons has often been variable and short. But this w...

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What I'm truly envious of is a mast that goes right down to deck level. Just imagine, being able to work at the mast without being "up on the roof"! The Westsail I cruised on had great bulwarks and nice lifelines, but fat lot of good it did you while you were standing on the cabin top at ...

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Thanks everyone, these are exactly the types of responses I was hoping for. Both the dedicated high cut jib and the reefed working jib really have my mind thinking and figuring. I need to do a fair bit of pondering before I comment in any more detail (a new concept that I am trying out). I do have o...

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Given your general use of the boat, I don't imagine that you'll ever spend extended lengths of time in storm conditions. If wind is ever briefly strong enough that you don't want ANY sail up, it's anchor time anyway. Ride it out. How heavy is the construction of the current jib? Will it blow to pie...

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Rachel, Thanks for the info and please forgive the continuing barrage of questions. Would you be willing to talk me through the steps you used tucking in a jib reef? Was there a preferred point of sail for reefing? Not that speed is all important, but about how long would it take to reef the jib. Wa...

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Thanks Chris, Case & Rachel for jumping in and sharing your experiences on this topic. And of course the suggestion to go ahead and take in the second reef to see how the boat sails is a good one. I have sailed Bolero with just her mainsail and I have sailed my old Bluenose with just her jib (af...

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We have had a frustrating weather cycle. High pressure systems with light and variable winds and the beginning of the fall storm track with stronger, but still variable, and gusty winds. Today I decided to go out, it has after all been well over a week since our last sail. The forecast was 10 to 20 ...

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Figment wrote:Shields vs. IOD? Bring your A-game!

Darn. My best game is a C+. I guess I better bring my monocular so I can still see that beautiful stern for a long way away.

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Okay, I see your point. I just know how much you love sailing, so I was figuring you'd really enjoy sailing with a boat that was so close in rating to yours. And it's always fun to watch people doing what they enjoy. But now that I think about it, I realize that you probably just like to sail, and ...

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Wouldn't it be fun if you and Bolero could have a boat-to-boat race with her? That would be fun to watch with your ratings being so close :) I guess it depends on your definition of fun. Bolero is probably a bit slower since her conversion and I certainly don't add any racing value. So following th...

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...I enjoy the simplicity. Speed has a cost that I am seldom willing to pay... While I might agree that a boomkin would add some complexity to maintenance and running backstay would add some complexity to sailing. I don't think that speed and simplicity are mutually exclusive. And I don't really th...

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So very odd. Why does the backstay go to that boomkin instead of the transom? Why does it have running backstays at all? (it looks like the boom doesn't conflict, or at least it almost-doesn't) I agree. I start seeing parts of this boat that I like and then run into parts that I can't make sense of...

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...One of his big pet peeves was a companionway hatch - almost all builders added them - which LFH thought took away from the spirit of the "Canoe" (low cost) and the KISS concept...

Wow! Now there's a dedication to aesthetics and form that I can admire.

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"frozen snot" I need to say for the record that I absolutely despise this anachronistic turn of phrase. No offense to any who quote it, as of course it's a well-known and oft-quipped quotation, but I just hate it. This is not the "frozen snot" forum. ;<) Wouldn't that be "T...

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That photo is just about my ideal of sailing. Brisk wind, small lapper of of jib,a reef in the main and a smartly moving boat. Hardly looks like any effort at all. Just pure joy.

Bill

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My Swede 55 is frac rigged, with either a masthead or fractional spinnaker. Above 10 knots the 100% jib is fine. Under that you want more sail area - for racing a 155% is the ticket. With the 100% we are looking at a sail area to displacement of 20.2 or so. With a 155% you get up to 24.9, which is ...

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Bill, is that your boat? I can't remember if you have encapsulated or external ballast, so I don't know if I'm looking at encapsulated ballast with a serious "ouchie" or external ballast with just a hunk of cosmetic fairing knocked off. Rachel Rachel, I will PM you an answer so as to not ...

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Or depending on the use, or more accurately abuse, of your boat, preferred.

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Erik, Also, cool cover photo of your Dolphin. http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu188/ErikEvens/yankee69brochurex.jpg That photo of a Dolphin sailing well under just her working headsail is a sweet benefit. I just helped transport my buddies new Cape Dory 25D with a 140% genny and was reminded of j...

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Yes quite a beauty. I doubt I could ever see too many photos of her (hint, hint).

I would say that Tom's forum title of "Master Varnisher" fits very well.

Cheers, Bill

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Welcome aboard. You sail my favorite smallish boat (I have over a 100 photos of them on my computer). Like Chris, I also looked very seriously at a Dolphin and I echo his comments about the great Dolphin site. I really hope to hitch a ride on one someday but on paper they sure seem liked like a grea...

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Here's a link to Pineapple Sails in California. They have several articles on their site that explain reefing quite well - why 2 line is better than single line reefing etc. http://www.sailmaker.com/articles/index.htm What a great site! I've just read their blurb on full vs. conventional battens (a...

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ghostwriter247 wrote:Pretty boat! You gotta love the wood on the cheoy lees.

Or to put it another way, you gotta love wood to love a Cheoy Lee.

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Chris, For all intents and purposes, the stiffness (and deflection) of sandwich panel is determined by the core (biggest effect) and skin thickness. Only in areas of concentrated loading would the core strength become a factor. So I would think that if your new divinycell core was laid up to origina...

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Bill, I found your notes to be quite interesting, so I'm glad you added them. You never come across as a know-it-all, or someone who has THE answer (which is what would bug me). This thread got me to thinking about how we used to build fiberglass whitewater kayaks, in garages, back in the early 80'...

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Makes me wonder just how much money the boat builders saved using balsa core. I need to note here that balsa core is not chosen because it's cheap (though it does cost slightly less than some foams), but because it has such desirable properties as a core material that make it an excellent choice fo...

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Bill, as an aside (and maybe because you know something about it) I read the other day that Airbus had succefully built a full sized wing with a room temperature resin. If one could get that kind of structure without autoclaves then I think the age of composites (as opposed to the bronze and iron a...

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Too late! I'm done! Chris, Yea, sorry bout that. In any event my diatribe wasn't so much about which material to use as it was about why certain experts might say one method is best. But thanks for that background - very interesting. Surprising to hear that the Germans were building with cored fibe...

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About six years ago when I got back into sailing I went looking for a bottom paint that might be a little more sensitive to the marine environment. Eventually I discover E Paint. http://www.epaint.com/ Here is a bit of marketing info from their site. Q - How do ePaints prevent bio-fouling? A - ePain...

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Back in the days when I did structural analysis on aircraft we use quite a bit of graphite, Kevlar and fiberglass composites. And they all shared the same last name. Epoxy. We could have used any resin system we wanted but it was almost always epoxy. At the time the homebuilt airplane scene was thri...

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Somebody stop me if I try. "A man's got to know his limitations" . I am planning to sail the boat and my ideal scenario is Northern Yacht Restoration being involved in the hull and deck restoration. That looks like a sweet little project. I will definitely be following along when it gets ...

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I just can't jump on the bandwagon and ogle over you beauty until the mast is up. A sailboat in the water without her mast is just wrong. So I'll be waiting for those mast up pictures. Or even better the ones under sail from the stern quarter with the rail buried. Good on ya for getting her wet. Che...

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Can you actually move a traveler to weather hard on the wind with the sail full? Do you actually use the traveler instead of the main sheet to dump the main in a puff? Or do you just set the traveler according to the sheeting angle you want for the conditions and point of sail? Obviously Chris will...

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Gregg,

Nice work. Add us, and I mean Laura, to the list of people headed down your path.

Bill

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Just last night I thought of this thread when I saw a boat named... "Ships and Giggles" Just to add to the whole thing, it was a pontoon boat. I'm only sorry I wasn't able to get a photo. R. Uh Oh! I'm in trouble.... I actually kind of think that one is cute. And fitting for a pontoon boat.

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We're not likely to have any real contenders to Tim's title in little ole Fishbay. But it's not from a lack of trying.

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It's not healthy to begin to suggest here that randomly changing the rig size and configuration on any boat is something that the average project-doer ought to be considering. Forget the cost; it's not about that. I believe it is not smart to consider making a rig change without consulting a naval ...

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I just added Drew's version to an existing order. Should have it soon enough.

Thanks again for all the input.

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Rachel, That is an interesting observation you made about self bailing cockpits. My, our, last boat, the Bluenose Sloop was 24 feet long on deck and 16 feet on the waterline. The freeboard might have been all of 18 inches. But wanting all the the modern conveniences McVay built the fiberglass versio...

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Thanks,

I knew they must be available somewhere.

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.....Being able to keep the jib on deck and the rain out of the cockpit should make a great difference to your ease of ownership and use - and the canvas suits her to a 'T'.Chris..... I have to admit that early on I worried about not having self draining cockpits and the potential for nuisance wate...

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Hey Ghost, The age of the standing rigging is no guarantee. When I purchased Bolero she had "new" replace in 2000 standing rigging. Here is what Tim had say after the inspection. I was disappointed in the rigging. The "new" (2000) mast and boom are in good shape, with no particul...

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Does anyone know if round sanding blocks exist? There are times I would like to do a little hand sanding with a block. I have a few of the nice little rectangular ones but I have a nice stash of hook and loop 5 inch round sanding disks. I googled and found this. http://www.made-in-china.com/image/2f...

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On and off throughout the Sping and Summer Laura has been working away on our new exterior canvas for Bolero. I have posted a picture here and there, maybe only on my blog, but I thought I would post the finished results here. If I accidently say we when talking about work done, I mean Laura. It was...

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.....If you love the look of classic long overhangs and the like, go for wooden sailboats built just before fiberglass became king. Fractional rigs were more common.- Case I would say you have another option. Find a plastic classic you really, really love and perform a rig-ectomy. For sure it would...

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BTW, I'm loving the table, Bluenose. Great info you've compiled here, and a good family of boats. I'm a data junkie too. Do you happen to still have the XLS file? If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd like to add a few of my favorite boats to this comparative list. Thanks! No problem. Just PM me your e...

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I can't imagine only having two stands per side for Bolero, a skinny and light 30 footer. It seems like false economy to skimp here.

An Rachel's comment about bottom access is, of course, right on.

Bill

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Not that you get to be picky on this topic but my ideal would be a fractional rig with a large sail area, with the working jib, and designed to fly a masthead spinnaker. I think it would be a perfect cruising rig. A nice easy to manage sail plan upwind with an easy to control and reef mainsail and t...

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