tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7376390412770480162024-03-13T09:59:52.181-07:00Boats that follow me home. This started out as a restoration of a Triton that was only weeks away from being broken up for the dumpster and lead keel sold. But there are to many boats and so little time. So now I have a Siren 17, Luger 16, and plans to build a Tiki 30 and Hitia 17. Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-1421903746905593872017-06-30T03:46:00.001-07:002017-06-30T04:08:51.337-07:00Vlog of my SS1000 Iron Butt RideI put together a short video of my ride over on YouTube. My absolute favorite section was the dawn. I really do love riding early, early morning and seeing the sun rise and on this morning it was beautiful, which the camera can't fully capture.<br />
Another note I forgot on the video, Mt Katahdin is the norther end of the Katahdin Trail. Looks like those hikers could get a grand vista finish reward!<br />
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<br />Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-43279077951800063752017-06-24T03:19:00.000-07:002017-06-24T03:19:54.437-07:00The Wayfarer is no more....<span style="font-size: large;">My Southern Fleet is gone. Ray sold the Wayfarer for a tidy profit so I'm not complaining. Actually it's a great thing when you can flip a boat/car/MC and actually be a few shekels ahead! Also the boat sold locally and the </span><span style="font-size: large;">good news is it's staying at Lake Eustis Sailing Club expanding the Wayfarer racing fleet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well half the fun is searching and buying the next boat.</span>Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-10628435530576026192017-06-23T16:18:00.000-07:002017-06-24T03:06:44.210-07:00IronButt Saddle Sore 1000 completed. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A nice sense of satisfaction. After hours and hours of repairs and upgrades to my 1981 BMW R100RT I made the Summer Solstice ride. It was an <a href="http://www.ironbutt.com/" target="_blank">IronButt Association</a> <a href="http://www.ironbutt.com/themerides/ssseries/" target="_blank">Saddle Sore 1000 miles in less then 24hours,</a> done on the Sumer Solstice and in a Single State(Maine).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First my strategy of starting time based on my biphasic sleep cycle, i.e. about 4hrs of sleep get up and go. I've discovered that when I do this I can have the following awake period, about 20hrs in this case, of No sleepiness. This contrast to just getting up an couple hours early or trying to shift my bedtime. But boy do I sleep hard when I finally hit the sack 😻</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next adding a 4 gallon Aux tank to my beefed up rear rack worked like a charm. When riding very early morning in norther Maine gassing up can be dicey. But really the freedom when you have well over 350miles in range is wonderful. I could make my fuel stops quick and my rest stops restful. I usually only added 2 to 3 gallons to the aux tank, then I'd burn the aux tank out before switching to that wonderfully big 6.3gallon main. Even so my longest refuel period was 320miles from Caribou to Kennebunk. Also IronButt requires Business Dated Receipts no greater then 350miles.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Funny thing, I spend several hours wiring up my old AutoCom wired intercom w/audio input. I really wanted to have my Podcasts. I'd saved 4-5hours of my favorites plus many hours of my 60-70 era music. But I did not turn it on once.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I'm not a full on luddite so I did have an IPad2 running tracking SW which then is used for IronButt validation. But is was just stuck in the tank bag and forgotten. Here is the track, <a class="bbcode_url" href="https://spotwalla.com/publicTrips.php?un=BMWSailor" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #25539c;" target="_blank">BMWSailor</a> I also used a Garmin eTrex 20 GPS for mileage and found out my odometer reads about 1% low! Every other Car/Bike I've ever seen has read high. But the Speedometer is spot on, not the usual 5-10% over that I've seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So after such a great result I'm already thinking ahead to the Fall Equinox 😼 But now it time for some quality wife time, she has been hugely supportive and never complained about the many, many hours and dollars spent on and with this Green Machine</span></div>
Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-26541248989601978132017-06-09T09:05:00.000-07:002017-06-24T03:08:10.000-07:00Something Different, my other passion :) Mechanical passion, my wife is first naturally :)<br />
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<br />Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-23091664494381114362017-01-29T12:54:00.000-08:002017-01-29T12:54:36.048-08:00Half a boat this time. <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The guy, Ray, that I crew for on a Flying Scot and I bought a rough 1974 Wayfarer 16'. The idea is to fix it up and then flip it, but also so I can get some helm time during off FS race weekends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While it's a pretty ugly boat with a sloppy amateur paint job pealing away, it is solid and set up for racing. Even so, some old hardware, most of the control lines and sails need replacing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a few hours of fixing we floated her and ran in 3 races. I crewed on two and helmed the last, which to my ego stroke we were closest to the fleet and not last :) But really it was just learning the boat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then Saturday I raced her solo. Wow was I busy and still found another list of "fixes". First was storage of the whisker and spinnaker poles, twice while climbing to windward after a tack I slipped on those poles and hurt delicate body parts. But it was a good first day out, wind was gusty from flat to hiked out burying the rail and with only a couple tel-tales on the jib to help the wind was also swinging through about 30degs while slowly backing N to NW over a 3 hour period. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm hoping to find some low hour 2nd sails during the Wayfarer Mid-Winters Championship Regatta this coming weekend. If not, I'll bite the bullet and buy some new sails. I'll never know how good I can be with old bedsheets, New or very new sails are a must otherwise "my old sails" are the built in failure excuse. </span><br />
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Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-24535495039916005572016-12-24T08:35:00.001-08:002016-12-24T08:35:37.825-08:00Finally the Luger holds it's own weight!<span style="font-size: large;">With all the distractions this season my only real goal for the Luger was to get the hull strong enough to hold it's own weight before the winter non-building season set in. Made it with a few days to spare. Originally I was thinking of just two fore/aft stringers but the point load when I lowered it on to the flat trailer still caused the centerboard area to hogged inward. So I added (6) six inch long diagonal stringers, one aft and two forward of the CB slot each side. This works fine. Eventually a couple full and partial bulkheads will be added and the hull will be plenty strong. But for now she is in winter storage waiting for spring. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-3762612439984737992016-10-05T13:00:00.001-07:002016-10-05T13:00:34.087-07:00Looking at slightly bigger boats :) My wife and I took 2 week vacation to England ostensibly to deliver our niece to a semester at Pendle College at Lancaster University. Our niece is majoring in Statistics, she is one smart cookie!<br />
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<br />Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.188318500000001 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-22049324623784533212016-08-30T14:41:00.000-07:002016-08-30T14:41:59.817-07:00New camera is pretty good. But the Crazing is awful. <span style="font-size: large;">I received my new to me, i.e. refurbished, Nikon S6800 today and had a little time to see how it worked. First it takes great macro pictures. This pic shows the extensive crazing on the topsides of the Luger. Every square inch of the topsides and transom are crazed like this but not the bottom or deck. I can only guess the parts were manufactured on either a Monday or Friday. Traditionally these days for car builds were bad due to workers being either hungover or distracted looking forward to the weekend. Well except for cars built between about 1973 and the late 1980s, they where all pretty much junk. I suppose this applies to many manufacturing industries. I don't think Luger would have been skimping on resin or gelcoat on a kit boat built in 1969, prior to the Arab oil embargo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then I tried a short video mainly to check the microphone. On the S6200 they were located on the top, on this one they are located on the front. Seems to work fine and the zoom is nice and smooth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The stringers aren't glassed in. :( Turned out I had much less of the 6inch wide tape then I thought. It'll be a few weeks to get back to the boat though due to travel and house projects. Gotta knock out some house chores to keep my wonderful wife happy. But really I have nothing to complain about since she is super supportive of my addiction. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the Luger slung from the overhead to allow the hull shape to return to normal it was time for strengthening/stiffening the hull. First step is to tent and set up a dust containment/collection system. A simple box fan with furnace filter, shop-vac, and plastic did a pretty decent job keeping dust in check. But eventually common sense(my wife's) got me to lower the boat and move outside to finish up the grinding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also I'm changing the stringer configuration. The originals were wood laminated in with CSM(<a href="http://store.raka.com/75ozx38in.aspx" target="_blank">Chopped Strand Mat</a>) laid out diagonally to the centerline of the boat. I've changed to longitudinal(front to back) stingers made with foam forms but the strength is from <a href="http://store.raka.com/stitchedbiaxial1708-17ozw8ozmat45x-45x6in.aspx" target="_blank">Stitched Biaxial-1708 fiberglass tape</a>. I've used <a href="http://raka.com/">Raka.com</a> for my glassing supplies for several years but I have no financial ties to them, just a happy customer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My nice Nikon S6200 died after only 4 years so I used my 8 year old Kodak C613 which for the time had great high res(not) VGA mode. So here is a low res walk about the boat update. </span><br />
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Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0Knox, ME, USA44.517294 -69.21337489999996344.4267135 -69.374736399999961 44.6078745 -69.052013399999964tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-12256810467380929522016-08-11T03:10:00.000-07:002016-08-11T08:07:05.469-07:00Luger Leeward Rebuild part 1<span style="font-size: large;">I spent a few hours with an old but sharpened wood chisel and a cheap dead blow hammer and began attacking the loose hull stiffeners. I learned quick enough to wear gloves as the fiberglass edges are knife sharp and pointed. I suppose I'm a slow learner since I been cutting myself with fiberglass scraps for a few decades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another interesting find in the paperwork folder was the original invoice for the boat($799.20), trailer kit($155.70) and other items to build and go sailing for a grand total of $1116 in 1969 dollars. Of course the investor side of me immediately checked the devaluation, aka inflation, since 1969 to 2016, so you would need <a href="http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1000&year=1969" target="_blank">$6662</a> today. Yes you can thank the Federal Reserve and congress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway back to boat work. The biggest problem so far seems to be where the bow was never competed when a tree fall caused damaged. I think the topsides and transom were "off" a bit because I have a gap between the deck and the topsides bow when they are pulled together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in the paperwork folder I found the this two page ad in the Luger catalogue for the Leeward. It show a 400lb ready to sail weight, but on <a href="http://sailboatdata.com/viewrecord.asp?class_id=4184" target="_blank">sailboatdata</a> they show 650lbs. My guess is that from 1962 - 1969 the Leeward used plain steel plate for the centerboard and rudder blade. My boat came with a very warped steel CB which probably weighed about 45lbs, I did not weigh it but picked it up once. I have the steel rudder blade and cast aluminum rudder head which weighs in at about 25lbs. In 1970 it appears they changed to (cheaper) marine plywood for the CB and rudder but that difference alone certainly doesn't account for the 150lb difference. Maybe Luger had one of those special dieters light weight scales back then. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-75983867894556788332016-08-05T12:03:00.000-07:002016-08-05T17:37:39.252-07:00When cars had Character! <div 1.25em="" arial="" font-family:="" min-height:="" sans-serif="" tahoma="" verdana="">
<span style="font-size: large;">I found this in the paper work that came with the new to me Luger Leeward 16. It dates back to a time when cars had character. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Looks like a 2 year old 1968 Dodge Charger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the catalog that the Leeward was advertised in and this sweet Charger with Lugers "Sunfish like" sailboat, called the Flying Cloud. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's sad that a company once proclaiming itself the "World's Largest Manufacturer of Kit Boats" is just a distant memory of so few people today. Until I saw this Leeward in Bob's back yard I'd never heard of Luger Boats. </span></div>
Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-68900159707739554802016-08-04T11:30:00.000-07:002016-08-05T17:37:02.113-07:00<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />The newest addition to the ST Norther Fleet has made it home. This kit was bought from Luger Industries back in 1970 and partially completed. The owner Bob G. then sat it aside to raise a family and battle the Evil Empire in the Cold War. The boat sat in the back yard all those years, but being fiberglass she is still here while two nearby wood dinghies are in the dumpster. The cool part is NOS sails and rigging, much wood and SS was kept in the basement. <br />Here is a video and talk. </span><br />
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Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-19429293865965211752015-12-17T06:09:00.000-08:002016-07-29T15:05:05.804-07:00Dec 5th LESC Hartge series race.<span style="font-size: large;">Here is what I do when it's snowing in Maine......Go sailing in Florida!</span><br />
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Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-30063303700110931022015-08-26T12:33:00.001-07:002017-06-24T03:07:21.151-07:00Freedom?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once I got home from the gym this morning I decided to surf the web for a motorcycle. I've put several hundred thousand miles on bikes since I got my first little KD100 dirt bike when I was about 12year old. I sold my last bike about 3 years ago, a nice 2002 GL1800ABS and have had this itch for a couple years now.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So back to the web, I found a beautiful 1998 HD Springer Softail. Oh man what memories came flooding through my mind. Young guy with a ratty bike some cash in my pocket and nothing to lose. Suddenly I had that leaky tent strapped to the back, bugs in the teeth. YES I'm FREE, FREEDOM.......really?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh wait I'm in North Dakota and that little square sticker on the little rectangular piece of sheet metal embossed with some numbers on the back of my bike is about to expire. The thugs demanding payment are a 1000 miles behind me. And I just know there is a local revenue collector with his gun in the next town. If he forces me to stop then demands to see that I've paid tribute to the thugs back east and I don't have them it's jail time for me or at the very least my only mode of transport will be my two feet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yep Freedom is just an illusion. I'm free to ride my bike only if I have paid all the taxes(called registration, excise fee, title fee, license fee, insurance fee, inspection fee) and have the little stickers and pieces of paper in the "proper" place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Janis sang "<a href="https://youtu.be/OTHRg_iSWzM" target="_blank">Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose</a>". In a way that's very true because if you defy the thugs and don't pay tribute you'll soon find out you don't really own much of anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even my house, my castle, I can't just say NO I WILL NOT, JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! Because before long there will be a revenue collector with his gun standing before "my" home and selling(renting really because there is no ownership) it to some stranger.</span><br />
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<br />Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-86021444346586498692015-05-17T15:50:00.000-07:002015-05-17T15:50:29.845-07:00Mast raising and lowering, on my SirenI decided to make my first youtube video to demonstrate how easy and quickly it is to raise or lower a Siren 17 mast. I have been seeing numerous threads and videos of very complicated contraptions and 3 people to do this job. Well here is a video of a past middle aged man doing it solo:)<br />
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I probably raised and lowered the mast a half dozen times this morning while trying to get decent footage:)Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-85284720932178134302015-05-15T15:38:00.001-07:002015-05-19T06:51:31.132-07:00My Siren 17 getting some love:)We plan to take the Siren 17 out lake sailing Sunday so today I decided to fix a main sheeting issue that drove me crazy last year. The old block at the cam cleat was corroded and wouldn't move inline with the sheet.<br />
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This is the main sheet overview, here is a closeup of the problem. The toggle point, just below the where the line goes thru the block, is seized up hard!<br />
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The line rubs against the shoulders of the block, not only here but on the double block on the boom. Also the trail end is tied to a pad loop and crosses over the sheet where it exits the block.<br />
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Then when tacking to port a real tangle occurs. I had a couple blocks on hand so after drilling out and manhandling the old block things looked much better.<br />
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Now I have a smooth running main sheet, yeah! But not done, after supporting a Triathlon tomorrow I'll get back to work hope to get a tiller extension and tiller tamer installed, a real outhaul, reefing point, Cunningham and a symmetrical spinnaker(200sqft off a Flying Scott)! With that and a new Main and Genny sail this boat might actually sail have way decent:)</div>
Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0Belfast, ME, USA44.4259092 -69.00642340000001744.2444832 -69.329146900000012 44.6073352 -68.683699900000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-35587287308938214412015-05-15T15:14:00.000-07:002015-05-17T04:40:49.130-07:00Getting the Rigging up to spec:)We got back home a couple weeks ago and have had a chance to get some work done on Phoenix. First I stripped to old lines off the mast and boom, measured and ready to by replacements. The old lines were washed and retired to support roles around the house or other projects. Next I started checking out the standing rigging and came across an odd setup. There are 3 shrouds on each side, but there are only two chainplates! After much searching on the net I found from the <a href="http://albergsailboats.org/about-the-triton/national-triton-association/mir/rigging-and-sails/656-rigging1.html" target="_blank">Alberg</a> site that early East Coast Tritons, up to at least hull #192 only had 2 shrouds, hence two chainplates.<br />
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So that made me abandon my initial plan to reuse the existing chainplates. Now I have a local machine shop making six new 1"x 3/16"x9.5" SS316L chainplates. I'll install the extra forward of the mast line an distance equal to the aft chainplate offset.<br />
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<br />Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0Belfast, ME, USA44.4259092 -69.00642340000001744.2444832 -69.329146900000012 44.6073352 -68.683699900000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-51733710345767761132015-03-20T08:31:00.000-07:002015-05-17T04:42:36.186-07:002015 Season starting from afar....There is still three feet of snow on the ground but work on Phoenix is occurring either in Connecticut or Sri Lanka! I placed an order for a new Mainsail and a #2 (135%) Genoa with <a href="http://www.na.northsails.com/SAILS/UpwindSails/PremiumPaneled100/tabid/21948/Default.aspx" target="_blank">North Sails</a> through local guy, Eric in Freeport Maine.<br />
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I'm having the mainsail built with 2 reef points, 4 leech battens, cunningham, foot skirt, triton insignia, sail number #190, and 3 draft stripes.<br />
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What finally got me going was while I'm wintering in Florida I gotten involved with the <a href="http://www.lakeeustissailingclub.org/Fleets/FlyingScot.aspx" target="_blank">Lake Eustis Sailing Club racing on a Flying Scot 19.</a> The Flying Scot is what they call a One-Design race boat. So we race against a fleet of between 12 and 24 other Flying Scots. I was lucky enough to team up with the local....I don't know what you call the local routinely fastest sailor so I'll just call him the "hot shoe". A term from auto racing. <br />
I've found I really enjoy this kind of sailboat racing. We race twice monthly on weekends at LESC and Ray and I are also doing the Wednesday night, 6:25pm, racing with the <a href="http://www.flalmsa.org/" target="_blank">Lake Monroe Sailing Association</a>. We've also done a couple of regattas.<br />
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But before the basement got too cold I did clean up all the wood from the cockpit that I removed. The cockpit coaming were in pretty rough shape, but some sanding, epoxy and varnish and they are pretty again. I also put the lazarette cover in clamps to straighten it out. I don't have a steamer but I wetted it then clamped and epoxied, so hoping it keeps flat after 4 months in clamps. </div>
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Here's hoping everyone has a great winter season, and hoping for an early snow melt:) The Winter solstice is tomorrow, then longer days YEAH!!!!</div>
Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-27517669796921522972013-10-15T13:42:00.001-07:002013-10-15T13:43:08.084-07:00Cockpit Coaming removalI got it into my head to remove the cockpit coamings, and nothing is ever easy as it looks in the mind's eye:) Removing the mounting screws were easy enough most were wood screws but there were 3 machine screws with nuts on the back side. The two forward most and aft most were the machine screws.<br />
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Then the fun started! The screws were really redundant because there was enough tough adhesive that these puppies were not going anywhere. I started by using a putty knife and hammering it into the gap to break the glue. But putty knife blade wasn't long enough to get behind the winch stands or even to the bottom of the boards. So then after some back and forth on the Triton board I tried a hack saw blade, SS wire, slight longer putty knife, and acetone. All worked but only very marginally. Then while explaining the problem to my wife she offered a bread knife! Humm... it looked long enough, thin enough and had a serrated edge, seemed perfect. I'm no longer allowed to liberate and re-purpose kitchen tools without express approval. So it was lucky we stopped eating gluten a couple years ago, which means no bread, so the knife wasn't needed any longer in the kitchen.<br />
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The knife worked great and the port coaming was off in about 20 minutes. The next step was cleaning the coaming surface. I use a mix of warm water, TSP, and Clorox. After an hour or so I rinse with fresh water.<br />
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Next came the starboard coaming and it was a different beast. It seemed to have a different adhesive. The knife stared to break and I eventually started using a hand saw blade that I could hammer into a crack that was opened by putting two putty knives together. But it just was not coming off:( Every little filament of glue was tough and the board wasn't moving after several hours.<br />
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So, in desperation really, I decided to try acetone again even though it didn't do anything on the port side. Well different adhesive, different result! I had the board off in 15 minutes!!!!<br />
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<br />Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-23900485358290661462013-09-10T16:08:00.001-07:002013-09-10T16:08:57.590-07:00Death of a Classic Part 2Today after a meeting I stopped by and took a few pictures, but only 3 before the camera batteries went dead:(<br />
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The wood hatch boards and the wood reaching pole both have serious cases of black mildew, so today I'm cleaning up one of the hatch boards. First I used a heat gun and scraper to get the old varnish off then TSP/Bleach/Water treatment.<br />
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The entire boat has been sanded down to fiberglass, i.e. all the gelcoat removed then the decks and cabin tops were opened up. Next the balsa core was removed and the inner skin was aggressively sanded.<br />
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Anyway, the results were that in several places the fiberglass broke through. Next it was stored in a work shed covered in opaque plastic which turned into hot house in the summer. The high temps then caused the unsupported cabin top to warp. So that now around the front of the main hatch opening is a 1-1/2 to 2 inch dip.<br />
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The owner has, wisely IMO, decided to recycle the boat. It's sad to see a classic go to the recycler but the economics make no other sense. There is a 6 month yard bill cycle coming up. The boat can't be sold whole for anything. So in a very real sense it has negative value. But it does have one thing that has some value, it's 3019lb lead keel. A quick check of recyclers found a local one willing to pay 40cents/lb. Thats $1207! That lead value plus the $350 I paid for all my parts and pieces and now were talking positive value. Sad ending to a classic but on the bright side, every remaining Triton just got a smidgen more valuable.<br />
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I'll get some pictures in a few days, it really didn't seem polite to gawk and snap pictures with owner standing there:)Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-737639041277048016.post-5861339586113221212013-08-28T10:17:00.000-07:002013-08-28T13:35:55.849-07:00Old Icebox and a good Sawzall aka Reciprocating Saw <br />
Initially I really didn't want to fuss with the icebox. I was thinking to just caulk the cockpit hatch and screw it shut for the foreseeable future. But then I decided I wanted to change out the cockpit drain and deck scupper hoses.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pic taken at arms length through the cockpit locker</td></tr>
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OK no problem, just snake my way in to the port cockpit locker and remove the old hoses. HA, The Pearson brothers had a different idea mind, like never change them! I'm not a big guy by any stretch, 5ft 10inch, 150lbs, 29inch waist, 40inch shoulders and I couldn't get anywhere near a working position on those hoses. So remove the icebox! That at least will free up the port side.<br />
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The icebox was pretty easy to remove. First I took off the small top shelf, then seat back. With the seat back out there was a small piece of wood used hold the Icebox to a hull support. The only thing then was a couple screws that normally hold the engine cover in place. The front support bridges the icebox to the seat front.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arrow shows the location where the icebox tied into the seat back.</td></tr>
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Next was some serious yanking, twisting, pulling and shortly the whole box was sitting in the middle of the seat.<br />
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I thought about just hefting it out the hatch but a quick measurement said that wasn't going to work, so out came my <strong><em>Ryobi Reciprocating Saw</em></strong> from <strong><em>Home Depot</em></strong>, with a seriously bent blade from other abuses. A Reciprocating Saw is one of those tools that doesn't get much use but when it's needed nothing else will really do the job. Well I suppose you could use a hand saw:)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2inch foam on a few sides. </td></tr>
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The foam insulation wasn't much. This shows the roots of the Triton as a day sailor. Well that and the fact that the cockpit lid for loading ice into the box just lays on top without any thing securing the lid. Just waiting to float away if the cockpit it ever pooped(filled with water from a braking wave).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Access to the ancient hoses. </td></tr>
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There we go ACCESS to the drain hoses!!! But this brings up another dilemma, I would like to make the cockpit lockers water tight like in James Baldwin's Atom. But if I put in a bulkhead where the back of the icebox was how will I access these hoses in the future??<br />
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<br />Edwardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05312701794088202569noreply@blogger.com0