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Ummm... Yikes!

I've got a Puffer sitting in my driveway right now waiting for a little repair work over the winter before we use it for teaching Gavin to sail. Does yours have a trailer?

Welcome Bill and congratulations! We're all excited to see the progress on this beauty!

This thread is becoming gimongously rischnokulous.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

I don't think Tim's ready to upsize his shop yet...

Congrats! Looking nice!

Figment wrote:OK that does it!
Cockpit lockers, better toerail, overhead liner, and now a perfectly sensible raised fuel fill.... the next time I buy a Triton, it's going to be a later model! ;)

Deep bilge and encapsulated ballast, though....

Figment wrote:Later decks have a raised hump at the fuel fill? That sounds like a nice feature.

Apologies for the mid-winter grime. Pre-spring-washdown.

bcooke wrote:...and an offer to go sailing - in a sailboat on real water - so that will probably slow me up a bit.

Well, geez. Don't let me stand in the way of progress!

bcooke wrote:It turns out it arrived two weeks ago at my neighbor's place down the street.

Well isn't that just the annoying thing?

Rachel wrote:
bcooke wrote:I learned yesterday that Miriam Webster
Is that Merriam's rogue sister? And does he know that she's authorizing "Ginormous"?

Ouch, Rachel!

I approve! ;-D

Geez, Rachel, did you use a router on the roundover for those backing blocks or what? They look perfect!

My stern tube was fiberglass, not metal.

Tim wrote:We like pictures, if you're so inclined!

Ooo! OOOO! Pictures! ::slobber slobber::

Good to see the progress! Now that you are out of the bilge (and the constraints of using surrogate arms) things should go a little quicker for you! Another oddity of the Alberg 30 is that the outer diameters of the stern tube and the stuffing box are not the same. So usually folks have put on whate...

#218 wrote:It was blowing a little under 15 knots and we were able to eat crackers with a few dips and make drinks in the cockpit - doing 7 knots.

Hehe.

Looking forward to some sailing pics, but thanks for the update!

I don't think there's a "standard" thickness. I used 3/4 ply for my seacock backing plates. Some materials (such as manufactured fiberglass panels) can be thinner than others.

I recommend removing and rebedding the ports to have much luck at getting the problem solved. That said, after I rebedded Dasein's deadlights, one of them had a slight leak. With some inspection I was able to determine that there was a pinhole in the butyl on the exterior of the port allowing water ...

no toggles, and no current either. I can't recall the last time I saw a pot bouy standing erect like that. Freaky. they think they own the water! The photos are deceptive. Lobster pots often stand quite upright when there's a current: you need to look at the water rushing past! Actually, the pots a...

And no toggles on the pots in these pictures, either. A cakewalk!

::drool::

Hehe. It's all what your're used to. I hardly notice them most of the time. It's second nature to avoid them.

We had a rather foggy trip back from the Basin on the New Meadows River today. At times visibility (as determined by GPS and chartplotter measurements to bouys) was down to .11 nautical miles but at other times it scaled up and made for some nice pics. http://dasein668.com/art/sailing/2007/070807/fo...

Thanks guys!

No worries Jason, and thanks! Your recipe pretty closely matches the "official cuban mojito" recpies I found online, except for your suggestion to use raw cane sugar. (Sounds good though!) I know that traditionally this is made with light rum. And thoughts on using amber? I don't normally ...

Ah, the 7-up would indeed do away with the need for sugar!

I could, of course, just google "mojito recipe" but I figured that I'd go straight to the guy who named his boat after the drink! hehe

#218 wrote:Click here for the recipe

Well Jason, I came here looking for YOUR mojito recipe, since I've just gotten some nice fresh mint from our farm... but IT'S GONE! Help me out, man! Puh-leeeeeeease!

;-D

...encapsulation in an overlay of lightweight fiberglass cloth... Such as I did on Dasein: http://www.dasein668.com/projects/exterior/deckPrep . This was not a minor job, however 3 years out I haven't seen any print-through of the cracking/crazing, so it seems that it was effective for the severe c...

Ok, I got the stupid intake hoses on. Boiling water, dishsoap, and some mild cursing. The system seems to work well overall. I need to mess around with the size of the vent hole in the intake to reach a happy medium between aggressive flushing and a reasonable amount of water left in the bowl when f...

This cup had some of the best sailboat racing I've ever seen. Granted I'm not that old, but still. I think I'm about the only person in the world who doesn't care about the nationality thing. To me it's about putting together some teams of great sailors and heading out to have some great match racin...

Yeah, I saw that stuff. 22 bucks a foot seems a little steep for ANY hose in my estimation. But if money were no object, I'd probably give it a try. It seems like nice stuff. I wonder how you make a warrenty claim on that stuff? Box up the offensive piece of hose and ship it back so that they can ta...

Well, the space available for the install was really just too small for my system, and hose might actually have been a neater installation. Oh well. I'm not tearing it out now! It turned out OK, though. It looks better in person some how than it does in the pictures, which is sort of unusual, but th...

Now that we've all beat on Mike for a while...

Did anyone else have any better ideas than a Swiffer for Mike's carpet-scrap-scrubbie?

Gee Mike, you're kind of taking a ribbing here! 's'ok. We still love ya, man!

;-P

Geez, we only hauled Palawan every 12 to 18 months. Tom would dive on her once or twice during that time. I'm surprised to find the fouling to be that much worse down in CT.

Anyway... interesting!

...until the customary midseason quick-haul. You haul mid-season??? Mike, you're only in the water for 5 or 6 months, aren't you? What on earth do you need to haul for? And you call me nuts ? Hello, Pot! hehe ...I'm thinking about switching to a carpet scrap. I'd love to hear thoughts on an effecti...

Where's Ledbetter Narrows? Your adoring fans await!

;-P

Nathan, I like the clean look of the plumbing runs so far: unobtrusive and better looking than all hose. I'm pretty happy with the look so far. I hope I can keep it nice and neat when I get to the rat's nest with two diverters, a tee-fitting, and pump... Keep your fingers crossed! And I'm glad to s...

Tangent: The "beadboard" plywood looks really nice. Is that the same stuff Tim used on the daysailor? I seem to remember a recommendation for spending a bit more for a slightly nicer type - is that what you have? No, I just used the "cheap" fir stuff, rather than birch. I instal...

I was going to give you a hard time for taking the 'easy' route and putting all of your plumbing on the wall instead of behind the cabinet but I am really warming up to your installation. When I put my plumbing behind the panel I had to get creative and puts lots of bends in the plumbing so I wasn'...

Oh, I'm not changing the color anytime soon.

Tim wrote:Yes, because after all,

dasein668 wrote:...you can just slap a different color on top...
(Especially when your friend has a nice shop.)

Well, yes, that might tend to skew one's perspective, mightn't it?

Got a couple hours of work in on the project today. I'm still waiting for my diverter valves from Defender. (Can someone explain how I placed an order with Second Day Air shipping on Thursday and the UPS expected delivery date is Tuesday?) Anyway... Installed some cleats for the tank. I'll be instal...

This series has been GOOD! Despite TNZ's seeming inability to handle their spinnaker sets...

The dual leeward gates has really made for some interesting tactical decisions.

Hey, you handled it better than Team New Zealand has been handling their spin!

Hehe!

Gavin just walked in here and asked "Is that what color Tim wants to paint our boat? I want a different color."

hehe

Yeah, it was either ground or overnight... That's OK. It's a non-issue now.

If you ever need anything plumbing-related, call PPP. They pride themselves on stocking every known PVC fitting, or so said the guy who helped me out.

... I'll be getting plenty of sailing during my 3.5 week cruise... ;-P Now if THAT doesn't make one envious! It's good to be "the man", hmmm? You get to set your own vacation time. Good for setting vacations. But taking a month off isn't great for the bank account, so there's a downside, ...

Portland Plastic Pipe was full of cigarette smoke with "Sweet Caroline" playing on the radio, but they had the goods. Now I just need my diverters. ::twiddles thumbs::

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