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Chris Campbell

I've got no advice for you, but would like to exclaim: wow! that's a lot of work for a mockup! It looks lovely, and I trust you'll find a use for it somewhere when you're done. Hopefully someone here will have something more useful to say - if not, I'd suggest trying over at the woodenboat forums, s...

Chris Campbell

You could buy a recent fiberglass replica, if'n you wanted:
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Chris Campbell

She looks lovely, David, congrats!

Our little boat has no name, but will be christened Stella to complement the larger boat, which is Luna. We won't be sailing in Mahone Bay until the end of the summer, though, if then - moving is going to be a great chore.

Cheers,

Chris Campbell

Congratulations! That's a big job - hope you got pictures! It'll certainly be a treat to have the motor go when you request, and do enjoy your first few years of trouble-free motor use! Is your boat at South Shore Marine, David? We're actually moving to Chester, and may keep ours there (the little o...

Chris Campbell

I have the same project to do, and similar construction details to work with, so I'm glad for this thread. I'm also glad for the suggestion to get a piece of G10 to glue behind the opening - that might just be the ticket. I had been planning to patch it the way you patch any hole - bevel the edges a...

Chris Campbell

The hatches I've removed and re-installed from three of my boats were all similar to this - held on on the outside of a metal strip (variously stainless or aluminum) by something that could catch. Either removable, as you have, or permanent, as Tim has constructed several times: http://www.lackeysai...

Chris Campbell

My longest cruise will be by highway. Tomorrow, 650 kms just in front of a Cygnus 20, then in August, 100 kms in front of Luna. Not sure how the new little boat will get down the coast - if there is a day of nice weather I guess we'll sail, but Pennant Point seemed like Everest in a Roue, it'll seem...

Chris Campbell

Isn't she lovely! Congratulations, there is no feeling so good as the arrival of a new boat, is there. What work do you have planned before launch? I'm guessing based on her look of completeness that you're not planning a year of work first?

Chris Campbell

Thanks to you, too. I'm looking forward to a summer of packing, moving, setting up a new boat shop and some regular sailing - probably not a lot of progress on the project boat, which is why the "new" one makes so much sense. I don't know that particular schooner, but there are quite a few...

Chris Campbell

Congratulations on your purchase, she looks lovely, and ideal for what you want. And thank you for spawning this thread, it's gotten me a new daysailor, too! After reading about the Cygnus 20 I googled around to find out more, and found one for sale not too far from me here in Halifax (6 hour drive)...

Chris Campbell

I believe that any time you remove cold from the ice box you shorten the life of the ice - so my answer is definitely #3, since the water is cold. Leaving the drain plug out altogether can even give you a place where cold air can drain out, making it much worse (a U-shaped trap would prevent this, a...

Chris Campbell

Here's my favourite style of boarding ladder - they're solid, look fantastic, and store in a locker, leaving the boat looking clean. They also work well as dinghy docks, protecting the mothership's hull and providing a ladder to climb aboard with. They aren't all that cheap, however, and do require...

Chris Campbell

It is possible to get rid of silicone:

All you have to do is remove the offending part from your boat. Seen here is the "after shot" of removing the silicone from the cabin top.

Chris Campbell

Tim wrote:And here I was, thinking Canada was almost Maine... ;<)

It's all in your perspective!

Chris Campbell

Spartan Marine was my 1st choice, but when I made templates of the windows and tried them on the cabin side of my Yankee I didn't like the look - the portlights are smaller than what came on the boat, and I couldn't come up with a combination of ports from them that would look right (some are oval a...

Chris Campbell

I did exactly what you're describing on Weatherbird, with a similar deep (deeper, I suppose, since she wasn't a centerboarder) bilge. The manual pump was accessed in the cockpit, and would take the water level down about an inch and a half below the rule pump (I also used one of the rules that has a...

Chris Campbell

Weatherbird used to get white streaks from the fenders lining the side of the club tender - I would just rub them off with my fingers. The friction of my finger against the streak of rubber (or plastic) would take it off eventually. And build callous on my finger, incidentally. Not sure if your situ...

Chris Campbell

I'm the Chris who ordered ports and hatches from Blue Water Hardware and posted on the Cape Dory forum (it came up while Googling Blue Water Hardware), and there is more news to report. I finally got in touch with Scott and he apologized for taking so long with my order, and basically confessed that...

Chris Campbell

Congratulations! A long project has a satisfying end. Enjoy the smooth running!

Chris Campbell

I'm sure you've thought of this - but you are aware that once you've cut that tube you'll need to keep water out of the boat through another means, right? Currently the tube is long enough that the top of it is above the waterline (like your cockpit floor) - once you cut it you'll need to install a ...

Chris Campbell

I can't tell for sure from the pictures, but it looks like the lower sprocket is attached to a pinion gear which drives the rack that is in the same picture with it - is that the case? If so, then The ends of the rack would have been attached somehow to the top of the rudder to drive it from side to...

Chris Campbell

I never had the windows apart myself, so I don't know. Hopefully John will chime in. I seem to recall that he was surprised by how little there was holding the glass in, though...

Good luck, and let us know!

Chris Campbell

What's that about a boat looking like a Whitehall and doing everything else well too? http://www.gaboats.com/boats/classic10.html Of course there could be a durability problem - but it sounds like they're better than you might think, and much easier to repair (like roll of tape easy). We have an 8' ...

Chris Campbell

Happy birthday!

And congratulations on your new dinghy - she looks lovely!

Cheers,

Chris

Chris Campbell

I love many things about what Tim's done with Circe, but I have to agree, the sole stands alone. It's a perfect solution for making a beautiful sole in a narrow space that can't avoid sloped sides. Remarkable! I predict there will be a few copycat attempts - I know that I'll be one of them, when I g...

Chris Campbell

Very nice work and a lovely window, Doug.

My only question - is a gib door where you pass the jenoa in and out?

Chris Campbell

Cheers!

Chris Campbell

Vodka for stove fuel? Sacrilege! If it should come to that, just drink the vodka and eat the food raw, is my advice. Enough vodka to cook a meal over will make anything taste good!

Chris Campbell

I finally got around to writing up how to batch resize with IrfanView, if anyone is interested. I've emailed it to Dick, as requested, and have also stuck it up on my website as a downloadable file. Click here to get it.

Hopefully it'll help save someone some time...

Cheers,

Chris

Chris Campbell

If only I had read this post before mixing my first batch of fairing compound. I used only micro-balloons, no cabosil, and had it drip off of the rounded cabin top in small rivers. I can clean it up, but it would have been nice to not need to!

I'll know better next time...

Thanks!

Chris Campbell

The trunk cabin certainly does look very much like the one on the Northeast 38, and suits the Medalist admirably - she looks lovely! Thanks for sharing those photos, and I look forward to seeing them on the LeComte Owner's site, also. Does your father still have her? Can you send along interior shot...

Chris Campbell

I've never had a kerosene galley stove, but I did have a Force 10 Cozy Cabin kerosene heater on my last boat, and almost never used it. While some people love them for the very reasons you've suggested (easy to get fuel, simple, reliable, relatively safe), we didn't like ours for a couple of importa...

Chris Campbell

Great work indeed, Doug - keep it up, and thanks as usual for your continued sharing. I'm embarassed to say that my own boat work has come to a grinding halt due to excess work in my day job - I do hope to get back to it soon enough to splash this summer, but it's getting less likely every day. It l...

Chris Campbell

I've not done this, but have always thought that if I were mounting winches on opposite sides of a mast that I would run bolts right through the mast, through spacers cut to length inside the mast. That way the pull of the winches on the mast would be supported by both sides of the extrusion. But gi...

Chris Campbell

I haven't gotten to the painting stage yet - depending on a few other factors, I should be doing it this spring or this fall, or next spring - but I'm still planning on using System 3. I expect it to be duller than the more toxic paints, but am willing to accept that compromise. And of course will p...

Chris Campbell

The Good Old Boat issue is Nov-Dec 2009, and it has a fellow sitting on his foredeck readin while sailing with an asymetrical flying. The article is called "Aftermath of a fire on board", and is about the author's (Durkee Richards) experience cleaning up his J/32 Sirius after a power bar a...

Chris Campbell

The last issue of Good Old Boat (not the current one) had a good article on cleaning up fire and smoke damage - they recommended several things that were useful for cleaning up. Any way you can get hold of a copy? If not, I can type in some of the highlights here.

Chris Campbell

Haven't read the thread in it's entirety - so I apologize if I'm hurting anyone's feelings or repeating what's been said... Put in a bilge pump on a rot-proof, removable stick - and drill a hole at the bottom of the deep bilge. No other way that I can come up with... http://www.lecomteowners.com/ima...

Chris Campbell

I feel somewhat silly adding my gratitude to the bottom of a list full of it - but gratitude is not something to skimp on, so: THANK YOU. What you do with your life is inspiring, and the way you do it is inspired. I spend more time reading your words - or the words of others who have read them - tha...

Chris Campbell

My Yankee 30 site is based on free software called "Textpattern" - check it out here: http://textpattern.com/. I've modified the templates and the way the navigation works a little to include more than one section and different behaviour in some of the sections, but out of the box it looks...

Chris Campbell

Find an easier way to bulk-resize/optimize my photos without requiring a master's degree in some fancy computer program to do so. What I do isn't hard, but it requires several different steps and therefore is time-consuming. If you're using a Windows-based computer then you can try IrfanView . It's...

Chris Campbell

I retract my statement about Agave being 6" thick on the bottom. My memory of the pictures of her keel after being driven over the reef were that there were gouges 4-5" deep that didn't penetrate into the bilge. But looking at the pictures I'm not sure where I got that idea. I can't find a...

Chris Campbell

Hi Brian, I'm glad Tim chimed in regarding the routered-out portion under the chainplate - I feel silly for not thinking of that, and it's certainly a relief to know that the hull thickness wasn't compromised there. It's odd, though, that the chainplate doesn't lie flat to the hull - is it possible ...

Chris Campbell

Like the idea of a garboard plug; would need at least a little thought to avoid drilling into one of the in-bilge tanks (unless going inside out?). Drilling from the inside is what I had planned to do - I never came up with a satisfactory way of feeling confident that I knew where the bottom of the...

Chris Campbell

Hi Brian, That's great news that the chainplate is in such good shape! Strange that they would have routered into the hull to install it, though - I would have thought it would have been mounted on the surface and glassed over. It makes me wonder about your plan for grinding off the bulge on the out...

Chris Campbell

This is a bit off topic - but where in Canada are you that's expecting snow and below freezing? We've got warm an sunny on Saturday and warm and wet on Sunday here in Halifax... Just curious!

Thanks,

Chris

Chris Campbell

Perhaps she looks something like this one?

Chris Campbell

Congratulations, Brian - you've achieved a major milestone! What a pile of hardware and fasteners and wood you've been in contact with. Must feel good to finally be at the bottom, so to speak, with nowhere to go but back up! Seems like the next step should be a good, thorough cleaning, to make your ...

Chris Campbell

LeComte certainly made things solid!

Chris Campbell

They also make wire in metric sizes, so it could be 4mm...

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