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Many of us copied the deck fitting Hal put on Sea Duty
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Chuck Ruble < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Similar arrangement on Sea Duty, my deck mount is further aft, tracks on the cabin top and running back stays.
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Turns out there was another sailing Icon at the show, although of a completely different kind. A couple of my friends ran into Dennis Conner. He's looking to buy a boat (maybe the only one at the show who was).
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Silver Heels < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Quote:“In the beginning was the word and the word came from Street…. Since 1964 all other guide authors have followed in Street's and Iolaire's wake, avoiding the rocks and shoals Street and Iolaire discovered” —Patience Wales, former Editor Sail magazine.
At the Annapolis sailboat show last week I asked Don Street for his opinion about my proposed sailing route, so that's what I got and I appreciated it. Whatever one thinks of Don's manner and prolific writing, he is a sailing icon, a genuine cruising pioneer. He sailed with heart, spirit and authenticity, and without all the gadgets and doodads that encourage even the most borderline boaters to venture offshore these days. His (former) engineless yawl, IOLAIRE, is reputedly as sound today as she was 100 years ago thanks to Street's careful handling, constant upkeep and occasional overhauls. May we all be invited to do book signings and give sailing seminars when we're 80.
A colorful Don Street autobiography is online at http://www.street-iolaire.com/bio.htm .Tor
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Alan,
Forgot to ask, but if Dick was working on your boat I assume you are in Solomons. The best restaurant in town is in Zahniser's Yachting Center, pricey but then the portions are small so you don't notice.On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:13 PM, John Stevenson < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Alan,
Yep, Dick is a good guy. Don't tell him I said so, but he learned most of what he knows setting up my rig. Of course anyone who owns two town houses in Georgetown would have an apartment for rent,On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Alan < ([email][/email])> wrote:
I am just getting back to reading my mail. I missed this entire discussion. I am glad Paul L is keeping up with it…. crew for the passage from Va to Bermuda on or about November 1st.
That being said……It seems like the time that everyone plans to go ie the 1500 leaves about the same time and goes pretty much close to Bermuda before heading South.
BTW, John, your friend Dick was here helping me with a SSB problem which turned out to be a bad tuner. I over nighted a new AT140 (replacing my SC230) and we're back on track (but poorer for sure) As soon as he got on the boat he said ” this is a Pearson isn;t it?” He said he sailed to Bermuda with a guy by the name of Jofn Stevenson and asked if I knew you.
He wanted me to tell you he a new apartment in his new house for you…..
Nice guy, very knolwledgeable and very helpful.
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Alan,
Yep, Dick is a good guy. Don't tell him I said so, but he learned most of what he knows setting up my rig. Of course anyone who owns two town houses in Georgetown would have an apartment for rent,On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Alan < ([email][/email])> wrote:
I am just getting back to reading my mail. I missed this entire discussion. I am glad Paul L is keeping up with it…. crew for the passage from Va to Bermuda on or about November 1st.
That being said……It seems like the time that everyone plans to go ie the 1500 leaves about the same time and goes pretty much close to Bermuda before heading South.
BTW, John, your friend Dick was here helping me with a SSB problem which turned out to be a bad tuner. I over nighted a new AT140 (replacing my SC230) and we're back on track (but poorer for sure) As soon as he got on the boat he said ” this is a Pearson isn;t it?” He said he sailed to Bermuda with a guy by the name of Jofn Stevenson and asked if I knew you.
He wanted me to tell you he a new apartment in his new house for you…..
Nice guy, very knolwledgeable and very helpful.
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Street is still alive? I guess he is too much of curmudgeon to ever die. I always loved Don's assessment of things, “Do it my way and everything is fine, do it another way and it is a Disaster”. There are no gray areas with Don. I think “Disaster” is his favorite word. Of course my total experience and knowledge would fit in a tiny corner or what he knows. I would also like to be a curmudgeon at his age (90s ?).
Anyway I think he and you are correct. I'm not sure I would plan to stop in Bermuda, just use it as a place to put in if you get really slammed before you get south of 30N. I think Bermuda is good destination for crews making their first long off-shore passage. It gives them a 5-8 day passage to get things sorted out and comfortable. And of course it gets them east of the GS. And Bermuda is a neat place. I've sailed there 5 times and I would go back again.
I have friends I met in the Bahamas last year who are heading to the windwards from the Chesapeake (as is Alan) and I promised to provide them with a weather routing recommendation. They are going to Bermuda and as this will be their first passage of more than 3 days I wouldn't try to talk them out of it.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Silver Heels < ([email][/email])> wrote:
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I'm only putting together a little Bermuda info “just in case.” I ran into Don Street at the boat show last week and brought up my idea of stopping at Bermuda on the way from Beaufort Inlet to St. Maarten. He thought it was a bad idea, citing the statistical likelihood in early December of encountering gales along the first leg of that route. I can't check my pilot charts until I get home later in the month, but assuming they corroborate Don's prognosis I've pretty much decided to skip Bermuda altogether and just sail directly to St. Maarten.
Tor
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Tor,
They've reformatted the entire sight since the last time I went through it (2001), but they used to have a series of pages on Sailings. They gave the position and characteristics of all Nav Aids and other navigation information for the approaches to Bermuda. I don't think they ever had charts, just a mini cruising guide.
While you have that website – and since you've never sailed to Bermuda on your current boat, you might contact Bermuda Harbor Radio and give them all the characteristics they want on arrival (call sign, radio equipment, documentation number, etc.). I don't know if they will do it that way, but if so it will save a lot of time on the radio during your approach. They will not let you enter the cut into St. Georges until they have all the information they required. If they have Silver Heels data on file they will immediately direct you to the customs dock or tell you where to anchor in St. Georges.I think the only free chart download in the entire WWW is the NOAA one. If you find another let me know.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Silver Heels < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Quote:Thanks, John. I don't see anything there about a free chart download. Must be some other site.
Tor
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Tor,
Not sure who posted that recommendation, so I can only guess they were referring to the Bermuda Harbor Radio site
http://www.rccbermuda.bm/portal/server.ptOn Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Silver Heels < ([email][/email])> wrote:
A week or two ago someone here wrote, “Unless you plan to move around a lot you probably don't need a guide
book to Bermuda; I found the Imray chart E5 plus government information you can download from their website to
be sufficient. YMMV of course.”Can anyone tell me what/where “their website” is?
Thanks,
Tor
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Safe to download now at http://www.svsarah.com/Sailing/ewTechniqueExcelNavigation.htm. Results are back to within +/- 0.1' of the NA.
It's been raining here for two days so I had a lot of time to fix the code. Looks like it will keep raining into Saturday so no major boat projects this week. I may have to go back and finish editing the videos from last winter in the Bahamas to fill the time.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Silver Heels < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Quote:Roger. Wilco.
Tor
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Tor,
The author's point wasn't to treat rotted wood as the remedy. Rather his point is that you can never get all of the spores out of the wood, just by removing to rotted portion. The treatment is to kill the remaining spores in the still good wood before sealing it.On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Silver Heels < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Quote:Ah, the plot thickens. Having owned old wood boats in the past, I don't think I'd seal up a deck area with a wet core, even if it is anti-freeze. I'd be more inclined to cut back to clean wood, refill or rebuild as necessary, and then close it up. Then it's really fixed. But for a quick, temporary fix the acetone w/boric acid might be worth a shot. When I get home I'll see if boric acid powder will actually dissolve in acetone. (Then again, acetone might alter the boric acid's chemical properties, or vice versa. Nothing's ever simple, is it?)Tor
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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:
Quote:I can see you're running windows server. In that case you should check out http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/ that's what I use on my site, pretty easy to setup. You could just it up as the “updates” page and use it just like you're doing now, but there'd be an RSS feed. Or you could send out your updates from Twitter.
You all have twitter accounts right? http://www.twitter.com/deepplaya
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Tor,
Somewhere back in this thread or a similar one, a few days ago Quent posted a link to an article on the subject of removing rot from wood. The author of that article said he found auto antifreeze (Glycol) to be as effective as boric acid in this application. I think he mixed them just get the most potent treatment.On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Silver Heels < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Quote:Rich,
Rope caulk doesn't come in a tube. It comes in a roll (in a box labeled Rope Caulk), from Ace, Home Depot, and probably most other hardware stores. The stuff is more like modeling clay, soft, pliable and dry to the touch, about 3/16″ thick on the 2″ wide roll and grooved into strands for easier application. You can also just pull off a wad of it, roll it into a ball in the palms of your hands, and then roll that out on a cutting board to make it a long strand as thick as you want. The man who originally turned me on to Rope Caulk, an very good professional boat repair guy, said he has seen it come back many years later in prefect condition on boat installations he did with it.
Regarding the anti-freeze, I wonder if acetone might not be a better liquid for dissolving the boric acid. It would carry the boric acid into the affected area, then evaporate completely taking much of the water with it. I've pored straight acetone into damp work areas like that as a drying agent, but never thought of adding boric acid.
Tor
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Tor,
Wait a little longer to download. Now I've found some problems in the Sun ephemeris. I programmed that a number of years ago, and I'm sure it was +- 0.1' of the NA. Now I've discovered it is more like +-0.5'. I must have changed something programming the other ephemerides and never noticed the Sun values were off. I've got to trace back through a lot of code to find the problem. This may take awhile. I'll let you know when it is save to download.John
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Silver Heels < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Quote:John,
I haven't downloaded that program yet – been tied up with the boat show in Annapolis, and now visiting up north. Will download it soon, though, and will apply the correction you sent. Thank you!
Tor
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Sorry I missed about half the 424ers at the show. I did get a chance to talk with Dave and Pat and Allan. Tor, I looked for you on the Valiant, but you must have been the in-the-cabin guy. Either that or the pictures on your web-site are way out of date.
After being the one to recommend the rendezvous at the Pusser's Deck, I am a bit embarrassed to be the no-show. I found out some of my friends consider me to be the prodigal son and demanded my presence for dinner and an overnight stay. Being a fixed incomer I cannot afford to pass up free food and free lodging. Unfortunately none of my friends live in the immediate Annapolis area. So my commutes were Lusby, MD to Annapolis (55 miles -twice); Annapolis to Frederick, MD (about 85 miles) and then Frederick to DC (about 50 miles). Tonight I'm back in New Bern (350 miles from DC). I think I'll let the car get a rest for a few days. I did pick up enough stuff to keep me busy for the rest of the month.
I enjoyed the show as always, but I was disappointed by the lack of factory reps at the show. Just distributors and retailers in the tents. Looks like I'll have to use the Internet for my research of wind charges, solar panels and water makers.John
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Lee Yonkers < ([email][/email])> wrote:
Quote:Rick, I'll put yours in the mail either tomorrow or Tuesday. No mail service tomorrow anyway.Quent, I'm sorry I missed you Friday. We had a heck of a good time. If you still want the logos, send me your address and I will get them off to you Tuesday.
Karen and I had one hell of a great time at the boat show. Thursday we walked the exhibits and docks and, at about 6:00, we met up with Tor, Dave & Pat, Paul & Joann, Allen, and Lee & Marlyn (Dave and Pat's friends from Minnesota) at the Marriott for drinks. Saturday morning we took the water taxi out to Allen's boat and had a tour. I picked up several great ideas I will incorporate into Morning Glory. We all parted company and promised to make a huge effort to attend the next 424 roundup. When ever that happens.
Karen and I managed to escape the show missing only 1.6 boat units but with a bunch of good leads.
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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.htmlOn 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.htmlBTW, 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 !
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Rich,
I had larger winches on Sarah when I purchased her in 2000 – Lewmar 48, 3-speed, not ST. I always felt they were way oversized for the sail (135%, not 150%). So I replaced them with Andersen 46 STs in 2003. I've never felt the 46s were underpowered nor have I regretted that decision. Then again I don't race this boat, if I did I would probably have a similar larger sail and I would be doing a lot more close-hauled sailing. So in that case I might regret giving up those 48s. One thing that will increase the power of any winch is a longer handle with grips for two hands. Of course the closeness of the life lines and the cockpit Biminis most of us have restrict the effectiveness of the longer handle.On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM, < ([email][/email])> wrote:
I don't know about the rest of you folks, but there are many times I wish my winches were bigger. I fly a 150% gennoa. I find that the relatively short 424 rig needs the extra sail area. When sheeting in the headsail when close-hauled in anything other than a light breeze I find the last few feet to be a bear.
A longer handle hits the dodger frame. Unless the handle were very long, it wouldn't provide much improvement anyway. Even the speed-shift handle is too short to make much of a difference. I've considered replacing the winches, but the cost of a new pair of winches is several boat units. I've got Lewmar 46 winches. I'd have to go to Lewmar 50 winches at about $5k/pr to gain enough leverage to sheet in the headsail. Larger winches are taller too, so I'd have to raise the lifelines or the handle won't clear. This means new stanchions.
Has anyone come up with a solution to this?
How many others out there wish their winches were more powerful?
Who out there is satisfied with your winch and what model do you have?
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