I'm not sure what it takes to put the Whoosh and Sarah sites on a blog system, but I do produce a log of significant changes to both sites that can be checked for updates.

SV Sarah: http://www.svsarah.com/SiteUpdateLog.htm
SV Whoosh: http://www.svsarah.com/Whoosh/WhooshUpdateLog.html

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Patrick Walters < ([email][/email])> wrote:

I never saw this go round so thought I'd send it out.

Jack has a nice write-up about his down flooding prevention boards for the lazarettes.
http://www.svsarah.com/Whoosh/WhooshPacificPrepBoards.html

BTW, we need to get you onto a blog system so there's a feed for your updates, so hard to always have to go looking, but alays so worth it!

Nicely done Jack !
-p

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Regards,
John Stevenson
http://www.svsarah.com

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Very nice! I’ve always worried about downflooding but never came up with a simple solution. They would likely stow vertially in their respective lockers taking very little room. This is too easy however. Surely they should be made of teak or something expensive?

I keep a spare hatchboard stowed in one of the lockers. Its just a piece of pressure treated plywood cut to the shape of the main cabin hatch. I’ve heard too many stories of folks losing a hatchboard. This takes no room either. I use it when the boat is in winter storage to save the finish on the teak hatch boards. It stows vertically in one of the lockers during the rest of the season. Downflood boards could be made of the same material.

Regards
Rich

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Where do you store the downflooding boards when not in use?

John Stevenson wrote:

I’m not sure what it takes to put the Whoosh and Sarah sites on a blog
system, but I do produce a log of significant changes to both sites
that can be checked for updates.

SV Sarah: http://www.svsarah.com/SiteUpdateLog.htm
SV Whoosh: http://www.svsarah.com/Whoosh/WhooshUpdateLog.html

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Patrick Walters <
> wrote:

I never saw this go round so thought I’d send it out.

Jack has a nice write-up about his down flooding prevention boards
for the lazarettes.
http://www.svsarah.com/Whoosh/WhooshPacificPrepBoards.html

BTW, we need to get you onto a blog system so there’s a feed for
your updates, so hard to always have to go looking, but alays so
worth it!

Nicely done Jack !
-p

—-
http://www.DeepPlaya.com <http://www.deepplaya.com/> | Pearson 424 | Hull
#152

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Regards,
John Stevenson
http://www.svsarah.com <http://www.svsarah.com>

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” Where do you store the downflooding boards when not in use?”

I plan on mounting mine permanently in place. The back side will be attached with hinges to the lip of the locker opening. Under routine use, the front edge will be attached to the underside of the lid, so that when the lid is opened, it opens up as well. When offshore, the front will be secure to the latch on the outside, where the lid is secured.

Paul
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nice.

Paul Lefebvre wrote:

” Where do you store the downflooding boards when not in use?”

I plan on mounting mine permanently in place. The back side will be
attached with hinges to the lip of the locker opening. Under routine
use, the front edge will be attached to the underside of the lid, so
that when the lid is opened, it opens up as well. When offshore, the
front will be secure to the latch on the outside, where the lid is
secured.

Paul
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Thanks, Patrick.
I am looking at the BlogEngine.NET documentation and it says I need to have ASPNET 2.0 on my website.  When I attempted to change the site through the Control Panel to 2.0 I got an error that said I can't have resources on the site for two version of ASPNET.  I guess this means I unknowingly used ASPNET 1.0 for something.  Looks like I'll need to go to my hosting service help desk to even get started.  That is normally not a pleasant experience, so we will see.  This may be more trouble than its worth for a vanity site.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Patrick Walters – s/v Deep Playa < ([email][/email])> wrote:

What a surprise, not having been here in some time, to see this discussion on our downflooding boards. Like Rich, I too thought something was amiss about this project: simple? inexpensive? quick? Surely, not…

I don’t know how Paul uses his lockers but, if I understand his comment correctly, I would find it awkward to have the boards semi-permanently mounted under the locker lids. Partly, it’s because I’m in/out of those lockers fairly often – head and torso only, on a good day; all of me on the not-so-good days. And some of the things in my lockers need a fair bit of clearance to remove and reinsert, or at least are more easily moved with more clearance. The boards would foul some portion of the clearance (especially so when the cockpit cushions are left in place, further limiting just a bit the lid’s opening) for these larger items (ahem…including me, I guess).

Like the project itself, storing the boards has proven to not really be an issue. In the stbd. locker it serves as a false floor for dive gear, hose & electrical cable, etc. – tho’ that has to be rearranged before longer offshore runs. In the port locker, it simply sits on top of the locker’s contents…but at the locker’s aft end, which holds things intentionally not normally needed. And in the aft locker, it sits on top of a propane locker, unseen and out of the way until needed. These are light, thin and could be set up alongside the hull or stowed in other vertical arrangements; it’s really not worth a worry.

I must say – when looking at the posts just above this, between some of you – that I am soooo thankful it is John that wrestles with the SARAH & WHOOSH site. I’m sure some of those exchanges are (mostly) in English, but not the patois I speak…

Jack