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Sounds like a good price. I’d like to see them.
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Alan
I may have room on my boat if you can find a place to park. I’ll be alone on Saturday night. My wife and possibly daughter may drive down on Friday and stay the evening, but there should be room on the settee.Rodd
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I filled it out. You must make an entry for sails that are not in the inventory. There is no record for a genoa.
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Rodd
I’m most interested in meeting the folks that I’ve exchanged email with over the years. One would think that we almost know each other by now, but I must confess that I sometimes get confused as to who I am exchanging messages with. Once we meet and get on a first-name basis, it will be easier.I’m also interested in seeing projects that folks have completed on their boats. I’m sure we all want to share notes. It’s interesting to see how each of us have looked at similar problems and found different solutions. I understand that all of us may not have the time or desire to get into customizing our boats, so if your boat is still stock, please don’t feel left out.
I’m of course pleased to show off some of my projects. I’ve put a lot of work into the boat over the years. If anyone is interested in getting down to nuts-and-bolts of how some of these were completed, I’d be happy to spend the time. I’ve repaired or replaced every part of the boat over the years. If anyone has a particular problem, I’d be happy to give a look. There are others in the group who are equally proud of their work and I’m sure that they would like the opportunity to do the same.
Weather permitting, we will surely raft. The last time we did this, I dropped a Fortress FX-85. This is a huge danforth type anchor. It would have held us all even in a moderate blow, but everyone understandably insisted on dropping his own hook. We had a dozen anchors down there. Had the wind shifted while we were tied together, it would have been very difficult to untangle the ground tackle. Let’s see what the weather report is when we get there and discuss it over a beverage. I suggest that we stick to the one anchor solution until after we’ve discussed it.
Rich
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I’m leaving from Beverly, MA. This is North of Boston. I figure it will take me 5 days to get there, so I’ll probably leave on Saturday or Sunday. This gives me a day or two of slack in case the weather doesn’t cooperate. I don’t mind getting there early. I have 5 weeks to cruise this year. I don’t know where I’ll endup after the rendezvous, I might head down to NY city, for a few days and then head east to the cape.
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I’m leaving on the 18th. I’ll take my time gunk-holing my way down the coast to LI. Depending on the weather, I might get there a day or two early. If anyone else gets there early, please keep an eye out for me. I probably won’t have my radio on, but my cell always works.
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Rodd
Unless there is an unusual eatery that has good food and modest prices, I’d rather avoid the local restaurants in preference to a BBQ or pot-luck. While some might enjoy eating out, I usually find this kind of thing to be noisy and expensive. Tables are always setup to crowd us together with no elbow room. Food and drink is usually very expensive and rarely as good as what can be whipped up onboard. If there is an area that we can find with tables and a BBQ, I’d prefer that route. If there’s enough interest in eating out, maybe some can go that route and others can fend for themselves. If it turns out that I’m eating alone, I’ll tag along to be friendly.I’m leaving two weeks from today. Please send us instructions for precisely when and where to meet before then. Also, please give is a VHF channel or cell-number to coordinate our arrival.
My cellnumber is below.
Rich Carter – 603-493-3330
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Bob
To my knowledge, Pearson installed Borg Warner Velvet-Drive transmissions on all 424’s, though they may have put something else in the first couple of production boats. Copy down the information on the manufacturers plate and send it out to us along with a photo of the transmission. If you have trouble reading the plate, rub it with a dry-rease marker and polish it slightly with paper towel to reveal the stamped information.—
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Eric
I’m very familiar with these cruising grounds and have a few suggestions. A trip outside and around Cape Cod is not advised unless you have good crew and are familiar with the area. There are strong currents and frequent fog. It can be a dangerous trip. If you chose to head that way, P’Town isn’t really convenient. It takes a long time to work around the end of the cape and into the harbor and just as long to get out. There are no safe harbors on the outside of the cape. A more relaxed trip would take you through the canal in both directions. You need a minimum of two weeks for a trip such as this.Assuming that the weather is good and the wind is from the south or west, Rockport is a good place to stop. There is a nice anchorage outside the main harbor off the beach. There’s a public dock for dinghy tie-up close by and there are a number of interesting art studios tourist traps nearby. We usually get take-out lobster from the local fish market on bearskin neck. Don’t even consider this anchorage if the wind might come around to the north or east however.
From there, you could go through the Anasquam Canal and through Gloucester harbor. This is a very entertaining trip. Watch the boat traffic through the railroad bridge and respect the current at the Gloucester end through the drawbridge. If you are nervous about manouvering through the congested canal, go around Cape Ann and down the coast.
Any trip on the south side of the cape is dependent on the current. There are places where 5kts or more is not uncommon. You need some kind of current computer or current charts to time your trip. You must make the current at the Cape Cod canal, otherwise you’ll be wasting your time and fuel. The current switches in your favor at about 1pm on the 6th. The first anchorage on the Buzzard’s Bay side of the canal is Onsett. A trip from Cape Ann to Onsett is pretty tiring, close to 60nmi just to the canal entrance. If this is too long a leg, I recommend stopping at Plymouth Yacht Club for a mooring.
The waves in Buzzard’s Bay can get huge in the afternoon when the SW wind whips them up. If possible, Hit the waves early in the morning when the wind is usually calm. Hadley’s Harbor makes a good anchorage.
The options and choices for a trip like this are too numerous to list in an email. Call me if you want to discuss plans.
Rich – 603-493-3330
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Tor
Call them. They are a small business and I don’t think they are very
responsive to email.Rich
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A Link to the manual is below. Damn if I can see how the cap comes off though.
http://en.lewmar.com/support/PDF/Vol10_WEB.zip
Rich
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Tor
There is generic mounting plate for mounting a winch on any curved mast. I
have one on my mast where I mounted a spinnaker winch. I don’t have a good
photo, but you can see the plate in the attached photo. It is under the
large top winch on the left side of the mast. It is a plate that mounts on
your mast. The winch then mounts to the plate. As I remember, it comes
pre-drilled for specific winches, but you could custom drill it. I bought
mine from the guys below:
http://www.nerigging.com/Rich Carter
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Patrick,
You would put a water inlet fitting somewhere in the cockpit where it would be out of the way. Right behind this, you’d connect the solenoid valve, pressure regulator, and check-valve. Then run a pressure water line to the pressure side of the water pump. On my boat, there’s an accumulator tank followed by a water filter on that end. I’d connect it with a ‘T’ connection just before the water filter.http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|51|106370|316448|314211&id=133612
Here’s a water inlet with built-in check valve and pressure regulator, but it’s not marine 😉
http://www.rvpartscenter.com/ProductDetail.asp?PID=26216&SID=36&DID=7&CID=291—
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Dawn
IMHO, having a pump that is noisy enough to hear when it runs is a plus. If you are cruising, water is dear. If a fitting leaks or a guest leaves the water dripping in the V-berth sink, I can hear the pump cycle. There are super quiet pumps advertised, but I wouldn’t want one. As I remember, the diaphragm pump originally installed under the galley sink was pretty noisy. I replaced mine with a Jabsco pump many years ago because the original pump went up in flames (really, and the breaker never tripped). It is relatively quiet in comparison, but I can hear it when it runs. Installation was easy and it has been reliable.http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|51|299222|121271|316442&id=1029119
If you are in a slip, why don’t you connect directly to shore water? You’ll need a pressure regulator and check-valve, and you should have an automatic shutoff valve so that you don’t sink your boat if a fitting fails. Here’s a link to a solenoid valve.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/1A577
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/3A440It runs on 120v, so when you disconnect from the dock, it automatically shuts off. If you buy from Granger, ask them if the company you work for has a discount.
You’d want the valve to close if there were a failure in your water system. You could automate this by putting a relay on your bilge-pump float switch. If the float-switch closes, it would actuate the relay. This would then open the connection to the valve and shut off the water supply. You need a 12v relay that has contacts rated for 120v.
You might put your old pump on ebay. Somebody will want it.
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Pete
Thanks for the reply. My checkbook says that this is an expensive solution. The gauge alone runs $240. I was thinking of a more cost effective gauge. A simple sight-tube is all you need, but it would be difficult to mount. You can get mechanical fuel gauges similar to what the 424 has for about $30 ea. I don’t know what would happen to them if you used them in a water tank however.Here’s one with a remote gauge for $40.
http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|311|302335|7364|939818|940755&id=940380—
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