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Layin' glass and raisin' masts.  Sealed my weldments under 6 layers of cloth and epoxy. And we raised the mast for the first time: https://youtu.be/-il1iTGwABs This weeks goals: Figuring out my running rigging and installing new trailer brakes.
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I hope you goons are out on the water this weekend and not sweating in a back yard like me. I'm almost done with the trailer: i cleaned and primed some rusty spots, welded a couple of inches onto the tongue so I could bolt on a surge coupler and I've replaced the brakes on the rear axle. Tomorrow I should be able to install the new brake lines and give the boat a wash. Then I should be ready to launch next Saturday.
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May 29, 2017 01:13
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Took one of my club C&C 27s out on Puget Sound today, first sail of the season! Soooo beautiful, and we actually had some pretty decent 10-15 knots of wind out there. Hardly a cloud in the sky.
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May 29, 2017 01:41
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I found out the bilge pump in my wife's boat isn't working, so I bailed about 200 gallons of water out, removed the pump, and ordered another. Thank goodness for wooden skiffs, it sat about 2" deeper and didn't seem to care.
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May 29, 2017 02:07
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First race of the year on Saturday, beautiful weather here in Chicago out on Lake Michigan. Not much wind but it was enough for a race with the spinnaker. We did well for our first time out, second in section.
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May 30, 2017 05:17
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Sunday on Puget Sound out of Shilshole Marina on a C&C 27
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May 30, 2017 17:48
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Kenshin posted:Sunday on Puget Sound out of Shilshole Marina on a C&C 27 Took me three tries not to read that as Shithole Marina. Trailer is done. Next weekend I'm going to embarrass the poo poo out of myself as start a few fights with my wife trying to launch, sail and retrieve my boat. Is there anything like a p-plate for boats? Something that will signal to other boaters that I am an idiot and to give me wide berth?
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May 30, 2017 19:18
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monsterzero posted:Is there anything like a p-plate for boats? Something that will signal to other boaters that I am an idiot and to give me wide berth? I always assume anyone running with their fenders out are not going to have seen me, and it seems pretty accurate.
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May 30, 2017 22:45
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Humbug posted:I always assume anyone running with their fenders out are not going to have seen me, and it seems pretty accurate. Fenders hanging out is the driving with your blinker on of boating.
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May 30, 2017 23:00
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Haha, I was going to mention fenders out. I'm not sure if that conveys the depth of my incompetence. Maybe I should drag my lot of fencers behind the boat.
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May 30, 2017 23:04
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monsterzero posted:Haha, I was going to mention fenders out. I'm not sure if that conveys the depth of my incompetence. Maybe I should drag my lot of fencers behind the boat. Maybe put up some big red/green flags that say "port" and "starboard" on each side of the boat so you don't forget.
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May 30, 2017 23:08
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Do they make a label maker large enough for me to label my jib and main? Both will be marked SAIL of course.
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May 30, 2017 23:27
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Just label all the lines and halyards as "ropes", they'll know.
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May 30, 2017 23:35
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Label them Jib n' Spanker
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May 30, 2017 23:50
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monsterzero posted:Do they make a label maker large enough for me to label my jib and main? Both will be marked SAIL of course. Don't sail with people that need these labels 😂
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May 31, 2017 00:23
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The Risk posted:Don't sail with people that need these labels 😂 I am the boat babby. 
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May 31, 2017 00:58
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Took the Hobie 14 out in Apalachicola Bay. Seas 3-5ft, winds 15-20kt. Spent a good chunk of time just flipping the thing back upright  However I notice that I am a hell of a lot more sore at 29 than the last time I had a really good rip in the heavy stuff. Getting old sucks. 
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May 31, 2017 02:13
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I'll never forget blowing over in my little Phantom (sunfish clone) when I was like 12. Forgot to let out the main sheet, got it upright and thankfully was able to hold on as it sailed itself away.
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May 31, 2017 03:58
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Scrapez posted:I'll never forget blowing over in my little Phantom (sunfish clone) when I was like 12. I swam a mile or two back to shore once with my mother in tow when that same boat shown above did that very thing. Mainsheet line looped around the port quarter corner casting and off she went! Lifejackets save lives, y'all.
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May 31, 2017 16:38
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Hull polish before/after:  I have a confession to make, I've never really bothered with the full polish before. It was more satisfying than I thought it would be though. It really makes a difference, even without a machine or much patience. I know, I need to do the top too, but that can be done after launch.
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May 31, 2017 22:37
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Nice job. What did you use? I need to do mine as the top deck is getting pretty chalky.
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May 31, 2017 22:52
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Looks good. I do mine every year, but i have a dark blue hull that looks poo poo without any attention. A machine does make it pretty manageable though. I get my 28 footer done in about 2 hours using a long throw DA polisher and "Felden Marine Nano Polish" That stuff is goddamn magical. Cleans polishes and seals as good as any individual product i've tried all in one operation. Doesn't hold an entire season, but then neither has any wax or sealant i've tried. Too bad its freaking expensive. Should work fine by hand as well.
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May 31, 2017 23:05
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 Decided to build a plywood pirogue on a whim. Been picking at it little by little as I have time since Saturday, and got to the point today after gluing the stems that it's starting to actually look like a boat.
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Scrapez posted:Nice job. What did you use? Cheap polish and a rag. 
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Humbug posted:Looks good. I do mine every year, but i have a dark blue hull that looks poo poo without any attention. A machine does make it pretty manageable though. I get my 28 footer done in about 2 hours using a long throw DA polisher and "Felden Marine Nano Polish" That stuff is goddamn magical. Cleans polishes and seals as good as any individual product i've tried all in one operation. Doesn't hold an entire season, but then neither has any wax or sealant i've tried. Too bad its freaking expensive. Should work fine by hand as well. I have another confession to make. I bought a machine a couple of years ago but couldn't see how it'd help me, it just seemed heavy and cumbersome. Maybe I'll try again now that I've done it once by hand. Also googling "Felden Marine Nano Polish" didn't turn up anything, you certain about the name?
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Yeah sorry, the name was more stupid than i remembered. Its this stuff. https://www.marineshop.no/b%C3%A5tpleie/polish-/-rubbing-/-voks/feldten-gelcoat-sealer-nano-extract-250-ml-111394-p0000125166 As well as a better finish, i find that using a machine makes me use a lot less product than by hand. I use almost as much product doing the nooks and crannies by hand than I do polishing the whole hull. Have a terrible photo of my 20yo boat. I think its pretty good for 2 hours per year 
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Humbug posted:Have a terrible photo of my 20yo boat. I think its pretty good for 2 hours per year Is that usage or maintenance?
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Fjord Terne? Very nice. We probably have the same engine. 
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Neslepaks posted:Fjord Terne? Very nice. We probably have the same engine. Yeah. Its pretty good. It has the 220 hp Yanmar 4-cylinder mechanical turbodiesel running a shaft. Massively reliable and hilariously unrefined. It can't do less than 5 knots with the gear engaged, which makes for exiting docking when you have pretty much no rudder authority while coasting. Humbug fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Ah ok, not the same then. I have the 96hp 4JH2-UTE that I've noticed is also in a lot of Ternes. Yours would be the 4LH(A) I suppose. 220hp, that thing must go like a stabbed rat!
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Yeah its the 4LH-STE. It nudges 30 knots flat out, but at that speed you can feel it planing on the keel and becoming pretty unstable since its still a semi displacement hull. Its pretty much all the engine the hull can take.
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Launched! Wow, it got late this year. But the weather's been poo poo so who cares I guess.
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I popped my boating cherry today. We took our Catalina out to Lake Oroville for a sail today. We had an easy time rigging it, launched it from the trailer smoothly and then I snapped the fuel fitting on my outboard when I lowered it into the water.  Lucky my uncle was able to run into town for a new one so we got to drift around in 3kts of breeze drinking champagne and eating sandwiches. A++ will sail again.
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I took my daughter (Emma) to look at a boat that was most likely a ways out our price range today. Right off the bat I knew that the ad hadn't undersold the boat and that the price on his placard was way out of my current range. The sweet old guy selling it was explaining it to Emma like we already owned it right off the bat, talking about how much fun the ocean is, all the islands and whales that we would see ECT. After 20 min of this I sent her to the truck so I could talk to the guy. I said, "sir, I don't have enough money to make an offer on this boat that's not insulting." He asked how much I had, I said a little bit less than half of what he was asking. He smiled, shook my hand and started walking me through all of the documents and maintenance records from birth to this morning.           She's a 26' 1980 ChatletVee with a 10' beam and twin mercruiser 470s. 170 per engine. It spent it's life in lake Washington, coming through the locks for Seafair once a year. The motors are kind of meh, but they will do the job. It needs a transmission selector cable, new bottom paint and I'm sure a whole bunch of other things I haven't found yet. Last year the radios were updated, but the owners wife wanted nothing to do with the ocean anymore and he can't handle the boat by himself anymore. This thing has so many bells and whistles added over the years it's nuts. Hot water, vac toilet, engine and electric heat, led lights, spot light, remote windless and on and on. Having a command bridge and a control console inside is rad. I took the keys home today, I'm picking the boat up tomorrow, we will see how bad of an idea this was. It needs a name. I have hundreds of hours on Puget sound from when I was in the Coastguard and my parents boats as a kid, but this will be the first time on a boat that I own.
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bird cooch posted:twin mercruiser 470s. 170 per engine. Ouch, hope you don't like going fast or sipping fuel. Otherwise, she's a perfect family cruiser!
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It's a meh 4 cylinder, Should do the job for a couple years. I'm more worried about converting from a stator to alternator that the gas milage. If it's horribly slow I will repower over the winter.
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This weekend's progress on the pirogue:      
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Serious question: how easy is fiberglassing something like that for a beginner?
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cakesmith handyman posted:Serious question: how easy is fiberglassing something like that for a beginner? It was my first time, and I think I did okay. Read up on and watched a bunch of youtube videos on it beforehand, mostly relating to cedar strip canoes, but it's the same process, just on a different vessel. I learned a few things that'll be helpful if I ever do it again, but nothing that was a dealbreaker. There are a couple small bubbles that I'll use a syringe and small drill bit to fill, but honestly it was a bit easier than I thought it would be. The big thing is getting a feel for the epoxy resin. Helped that I used a slow hardener and it was relatively "cool" this weekend at 80F. Gave me plenty of working time, and I alternated between 3oz and 6oz pots, depending on what I was doing. Checked it this morning on my way out the door to work, and the wet coat and one fill coat I put on there yesterday (fill coat at 8pm) had almost fully cured. I also have an uncle that does boat work for a living, and I've picked his brain a little bit over the years, but he was on a sailboat on his way back from Cuba for the past week, so communication was limited.
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i broke my hand this weekend.... or else i'd share my fiberglass experience. We did the gunwhales and the chines on my friends Puddle Duck in the last two weeks.
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