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Avatar as an avatar. How novel! Wizards is one of my favorite movies.

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There is no mechanized Mojito-chiller. The largest "non-starter" load is a fan but getting the engine started was a major drawdown event so the alternator spent most of it's operating time recharging the crank battery.

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Here is the old girl (read slang for prostitute where girl is written) as she was before being ripped from her mounts. Click any thumbnail for better view. http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/th.8a46b06ea2.jpg The open void http://img3.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/th.23bcebbbbb.jpg Dale had to ...

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My boat came with that same set up. I had no idea that it was a flag pole socket.. As they say in the Guinness ads "Brilliant!"

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Outstanding! Couldn't have picked a better day. He got some great shots.

#47 does it for me. Too few people have pictures of their own boat underway.

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Arcadia, Yes, I have questions: Did you remove the old tank without destroying it? If yes... How? The tank has two bands of fiberglass holding it up and appears to be bedded in 5200. If the tank cannot come out in one piece, I will not loose sleep over it. I certainly am interested not only in your ...

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Good Work!

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I'd be interested in hearing the chapter and verse being quoted by these surveyors who, according to your mechanic, are "not allowing" Monel. Me too. He gave me a name and it is the surveyor I used last spring. I will post what he says. The mechanic I am using is very good but he is all g...

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Fig,

Great pic of you on Page 5

Did they re-calculate the results?

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Paper Moon is in the process of getting a new diesel. Yes.... pictures to follow. The mechanic tells me that I need to replace the Monel tank. While it is 40 years old, I was planning on removing the tank, cutting an access hole in the top, cleaning it out, installing the access plate, pressure test...

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Duncan, Thanks for the clarification. I thought the fuses you were talking about were the fuses that are part of the panel. If you keep the extra fuse block, I would preferably power all the fuses from one rocker switch through one 10 or 15 amp fuse. Second choice would be directly from the feed fro...

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Double post. Sorry.

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Duncan, It appears you have a switch and fuse set up. The lead from the battery switch (Hot) goes to the buss. The buss, as you described, is connected to the switch. From the switch, there should be a short jumper wire to one fuse. Then from the other side of the fuse to the light(s). As stated abo...

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Jeff, Yes, the Westerly is a bit "Duckie" it looks like a 23 foot boat with the trunk cabin from a 32 footer. A quick search came up with a Robert Clark 33. I don't know how close your 32 is to the 33 but that is a damn fine looking boat. My hunch is that the difference between the 32 and ...

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I painted my Sea Sprite topsides three times. Once with Petit and twice with Brightsides. I used the appropriate thinner for each and Penetrol. I had excellent results each time. Penetrol does not thin the paint, it just helps it to flow out better. I have also found that if you paint right out of t...

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dasein668 wrote:
Figment wrote:You have an interior?
I guess he's got one up on you, eh, Mike?

But Mike has a nice poo-pee box

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Figment wrote:I'm afraid Murph won't get the pleasure, this was our last time on the bar. We'll be jockeying for place in line with him and the rest of the stampede.

Damn.

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Usually the first boat with the kahonnes (sic?) to port start gets away with it while the fleet yells SOB. The boats in the following classes can hear a slam as the door closes. When Marty Lyons was in our class with Celebration on Wednesdays, that was his trick. Scratch boat, port tack at the pin e...

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We need a brand name and model for the valve or a picture but both would work best.

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Ouch that hurts. It is bad enough when it happens to an old POS boat. I am with (Tim) Correction MIKE on this one. That picture is visual abuse.

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One of the scariest and most satisfying realizations about brand new sails was when we got the new main for our first boat, the Sea Sprite. We were tacking through the mooring field and at the last minute I decided to duck a moored boat versus sailing above it and couldn't fall off. As soon as I rel...

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As a member of the "Rail Rider's Union" this piece of USDA Rail Meat would very much appreciate the inboard mount. The owner of one of the boats that I race on is 70 years old so he no longer races spin class. Instead, he keeps his pole on the port side and on the starboard side is the lon...

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Here is the leak

Here is the next leak would be if I fix the existing leak. You are looking at the oil removal tube where it enters the oil pan.

Life goes on

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I was considering the plexi cockpit but I can't seem to find a plexi fuel tank because it is between the engine and the cockpit sole. I am going to take advantage of the extra reaching room and redo the rudder tube as well as clean out the fuel tank. I have pictures of the oil pan that I will TRY to...

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Yeah, here is the full story: My sister and brother-in-law came down for their annual sail on Paper Moon. Saturday morning Jack and I went out to the mooring to bring her into the dock while the wimmin made sandwiches and packed the cooler. I opened everything up and then started the engine. Once sh...

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Man - that is a lot of stick!

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It is a design obsolescence feature to trap water so you can rot two sides of the cabin and the deck all at the same time. I have seen one boat where you could reach two fingers from the deck into the cabin leaving enough space to not disturb the mushrooms growing out of the front of the cabin.

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gjvp is right, moving the guy forward pulls the pole down. I think it appears tight because the chute was over sheeted. The pole should be level and the clews should be level. In addition, (and the toughest one to check) is that the line from tack to clew on the spinnaker should be approximately par...

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Nice! You be jammin down wind. It is a great feeling leaving a wake with the wind behind you.

The chute does look a little tight and the lead for the guy could go forward to midships.

D

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Bly, She is beautiful. If the Sea Sprite is any indication, she will be looking even better as time goes on. I don't mean to imply you are not done yet. I just know that you probably already have the next little improvement tweak rambling around in your head. I have long thought that the worst thing...

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Tim,

Just received the latest issue in the mail. Flipping through before I head out for Wednesday Night Racing and saw a few familiar photos. Nice article.

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Back to the toe rail...... How bad is "just started to rot" if it is just under the track and not visible to the naked eye from aft of the cockpit use "pour a toe rail." Dremmel out the rot, wet it out with epoxy, mix in wood dust and fill her up. Once the epoxy kicks, sand, dril...

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One said that they took a step backwards on the serviceability. He blamed it on a statement where Yanmar was moving ahead with the larger engines. He figured that by staying silent on the small engines that they were leaving them alone but he was wrong. The water pump on the new model HM vs GM I thi...

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Why no the Beta Marine BD1005? It is 28 HP which is between the other two. Is this a list of used diesels and those are your options? I just went through the diesel selection process on a false alarm (Thankfully I did not need to replace it) anyway... I spoke with two mechanics neither one likes the...

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I replaced the 1" aluminum T tracks on my Sea Sprite. FWIW, I used a vice open about 4" keeping the track level and slowly, pull by pull, bent the T track to approximate the toe rail. I installed them using the same holes for the three footer, adding 2 holes aft and the rest forward. Worke...

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I would like to take exception to the black bottom issue. While I agree with the power boats and Benneteau comment, I think it needs to be expanded to Black is the new blue. What was, and to an extent still is, the white boat with the blue bottom and blue sail cover is now becoming the white boat wi...

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Yes, I am fairly new here but I have learned quite a bit about varnish from a few professionals. Take a small can and try 1/3 each of varnish, Penetrol and thinner. It sounds like it may already be thinned enough. Use the better interlux thinner or equivalent and give it a try. If the brush pulls, a...

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For me it is not the gas it is the ignition system. The only boat that I am familiar with long term that had an A-4 did the rebuild with electronic ignition, three years later they did it again and one year later replaced it with a Beta. If it is strictly for economy, the pro A-4s have a good point....

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That is why we call it "The reaching chute" It isn't upside down, we just have an asymmetric with a reeeeel long foot.

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Don't ask me to explain. I went down to the boat, after making arrangements with the mechanic to repower and with the yard to haul. It was all going to start next Friday. Since I couldn't get the alternate mechanic to the boat to verify that what I heard was metal to metal, a relatively knowledgeabl...

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If you look at it as an exaggeration it may make sense. For starting with the small patch (the Casey method) picture the multi layer patch as a series of steps like a pyramid and turn it upside down against the bevel. There is plenty of space for solid epoxy and small areas where the cloth is in con...

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Nice Job! I am planning on eventually doing my decks and there are so many shades of white, I can't tell which ones are towards beige and which toward gray. Is the Oyster White slightly gray?

Thanks

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Thanks guys, The minimum expense is about $2K that will more than likely turn into $4K and that goes a long way toward the new engine. I don't want to turn the worst case for the new engine into worst case plus $4k. I thought about the dink as a yawl boat but at 50 years old I am not sure how much y...

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Well, it looks like the ol' Westerbeke 27A bit the big bazooka on the initial light off. I knew carbon was built up in the head because it is difficult to start. In fact, one of the projects for this coming winter was to haul the engine, have it inspected and have the upper end "De-carboized.&q...

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I always thought the boats with the tanbark sails looked old, traditional and salty. Also, take a look at Wooden Boat magazine. Ben Mendlewitz (sic?) has a knack for finding and photographing the finer points of a wooden boat.

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ArielHull97, Why Matterhorn White? I am planning on doing my decks. I have a black hull and since there are about 10 shades of white, I am looking for how the subtle differences in white play out. Right now the sail cover, dodger etc are green but I am shifting to a light gray so I am looking for a ...

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OK, Now I have to admit that I was on the wrong boat. I am a Sea Sprite fanatic and when I saw S&S 34 my mind never saw the ampersand. So all my talk about the Sea Sprite 34 and the Luders 33 does not belong on the Sparkman and Stevens 34 thread. I guess I will just have to start my own Luders 3...

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The Older SS 34 with the stepped roof that you mentioned is more likely the Allied Luders 33. Both were designed by Alfred "Bill" Luders and both are very similar. The Sea Sprite 34 was Bill's last production boat design. It is not a full foot longer as you would think, they just included ...

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