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I had problems so I took the water heater out of the loop and just ran it off the inverter while the engine was running. I don’t see any advantage to heating off the coolant.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
Thanks for the incredibly detailed reply. Do you mind sharing the ballpark prices for the generator and batteries?
And in practice, how often do you use the generator?
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
I wonder if maybe it was optional or during a transition when they were building hulls at such a rate that some were cored and some not. I’m 100% sure my hull is solid not cored. I’ve patched up enough holes and been all over the boat enough to know. Now, the deck is cored for sure.
Is yours thicker below the waterline in the lazerettes? I’m trying to work this out myself, still not 100 percent sure on mine. It’s possible the 422 owner mistook glass fiber for grain or something like that.
John – my boat had the oil canning in the bow issue – hull 198. The thicker glass or core isn’t there, only below the water line.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
Effie is hull 198, built 1982. Thicker below the waterline with thinner squares around the through hulls. My surveyor said it’s coring and I agree – here’s a discussion about an 84 422 where the owner did a peel and could see the wood grain.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/254567961289930/permalink/3696710187075673/
A few of you above might be wrong about your boats.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
Mine is located behind the nav station in what used to be the wet locker. The original rusted out. I replaced it with a Kuuma, and I took out the 120v element in favor of a 12v 300w element from Amazon. It’s great if you have a lot of solar.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
Don’t assume yours is a lost cause. Mine was seriously beat. I sanded it with a random orbital sander. Ended up all the way down at 60 grit for the tough spots. Then I used polyurethane satin.
It has “character” at the companionway but I think it turned out pretty great. Before/after in one shot, first photo.
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I and many others had to cut about 2 1/4″ off the bottom of the mast because of pitting caused by the steel-aluminum interaction.
For that reason, you might want to examine your mast and see if you need a custom step. I had the height built back into the step by a fabricator here in Connecticut.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
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Not single line reefing but this may help you.
I always looked sideways at my reef blocks, and it turned out to be for good reason – both broke between North Carolina and St Maarten this year. But while offshore we rigged something better.
Tie the reefing lines around the boom slightly aft of its respective reef point. Lash with dyneema a large low friction ring to the end of the boom. Lead the line from the bowline at the boom through the reef eye, down to the low friction ring, then forward to a winch on the boom. All the reef lines can pass through the same low friction ring.
All the benefits of modern in-boom lines and sheaves, but more robust and more easily repaired offshore.
I can provide photos Friday when I’m back at the boat if requested.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
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I had my port and starboard ones done (6; Effie is a factory cutter) with a local (Old Saybrook CT) rigger (Sound Rigging) for about $700.
But I’ve heard great things about Colligo marine for sending them out. Apparently they do titanium really reasonably.
Had I had more time I would have looked into that. Or another way to save money is find out what fabricators order stainless stock and get them to cut the pieces raw. Take it to a machine shop for rounding and holes, then ask them for their electro-polish source or find one on your own.
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Thanks all. Seas were probably 8ft. I went offshore from West Palm Beach to Culebra against the trades, so lots of dead upwind sailing over 12 days. No cracks in the gel coat.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
I paid 15k and would have gone lower if it weren’t a family boat.
And mine had working westerbeke 71c 4 engine.
I’ve done a lot of stuff you’ve got to do – chop some off the mast, standing rig, v drive,… And have some sole rot and bulkhead work left to do.
These boats are worth putting the work into but don’t pay more than the survey just because owners don’t have a realistic idea of how much their investment plummeted.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
I’m a factory cutter but I have the same layout. Engine and v drive are laid out the same as far as I know.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
I run the sheets through snatch blocks. I have port and starboard tracks for the jib sheets/cleats/lazy jacks and that’s been working. I set up a twing line at one point when I wanted to run the sheet inside the shrouds.
Engine’s going, easy fix and not horribly expensive! Just a starter, and advance auto got it in next day. I’m in St Augustine. Things are good, can’t complain about 11 days CT-FL even if I expected to be in Puerto Rico 🙂 I’m actually looking forward to the new (used) sails here and there’s a great consignment store here for other projects.
Pearson 424 cutter - "Effie"
I derigged my boom yesterday, so before doing so shot a few photos. I’m going to keep it around for a while to make sure I definitely don’t want it, but I think it’s going to go into the garage for good when I get north in the spring. The staysail just flies better off sheets and the foredeck space this frees up is really nice to have.
The photos should show pretty well how mine’s rigged, and that’s worked about as well as I can get the boom to run. It runs from a becket block at the track through regular blocks on the boom, through a block at the base, then through three blocks at the bases of stanchions (one pictured) to a secondary starboard cleat on the starboard side of the cockpit. Let me know if you have any questions!
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