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- Sat Jun 13, 2020 8:09 pm
- Forum: Hull and Deck
- Topic: Mast step truss, inevitably:(
- Replies: 154
- Views: 160168
Re: Mast step truss, inevitably:(
That's really useful, to see a galvanized (later sail #) truss out of its encapsulation. It looks pretty good! Astonishing they didn't galvanize the early steel. We haven't launched yet, but I believe any mast step solution that drains away water and allows air circulation will last forever if built...
- Sat Jan 11, 2020 6:06 pm
- Forum: Hull and Deck
- Topic: Hull bulging and cracking under main bulkhead
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15842
Re: Hull bulging and cracking under main bulkhead
There is a mild steel 'clavicle', or curved transverse beam, running from side to side almost the full width of the main bulkhead. The mast support truss bolts through it, and it is the thing you step over to enter the V berth. There have been reports of this beam failing at the center, again perhap...
- Mon Sep 16, 2019 7:33 pm
- Forum: Hull and Deck
- Topic: Advice on skeg damage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7750
Re: Advice on skeg damage
Hrrrmmm. Hrrmm? Looks for all the world like either the boat backed hard into something, folding the rudder to the side and levering the skeg forward -- or the rudder got bounced on its bottom a few times. Any corresponding damage visible on the rudder blade itself? Have a peek at the flat bottom of...
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 2:57 pm
- Forum: Cruising
- Topic: Summer cruising in the Lesser Cyclades and the Dodecanese (part 2)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13169
Re: Summer cruising in the Lesser Cyclades and the Dodecanese (part 2)
Lovely photo essay, Nick. We enjoy the playful colors you find in the Med, the Caribbean, and places like Mexico where we are going. One reason we're tarting up our boat with colors like lime, apricot, chartreuse....I think color makes cold places feel warmer and warm places feel cooler, too. The Ba...
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 11:25 pm
- Forum: Hull and Deck
- Topic: Crackling deck
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10021
Re: Crackling deck
Hi Marius. The worst places for water intrusion on our 1972 Ballad were: mast partners, aft of foredeck cleat, chainplate eyebolts, and genoa tracks. The eyebolts had putty/bog solid cores, but they were often poorly located & the drill missed them. The mast partners had no real protection at all. a...
- Sat Jul 28, 2018 8:05 pm
- Forum: Rig and Sails
- Topic: Boom for Larger Main
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9431
Re: Boom for Larger Main
Hi Ted. We have vague plans for a similar mainsail increase, and many many IOR-era boats have been modified this way with good resilts. As your drawings show, adding foot & leach to the main does not really upset the sail balance at all if combined with a smaller genoa; so much of the 150% G1 is beh...
- Tue May 01, 2018 10:11 pm
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: Lifting and removing the engine
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15110
Re: Lifting and removing the engine
Heavy machinery is definitely an option. My various friends have diggers and forklifts and tractors, but none tall enuf to clear the boat's structure. I could rent, but our town's rental company is a notorious, over-charging monopolist, plus I live 15 miles out of town so the delivery is expensive a...
- Tue May 01, 2018 2:16 am
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: Lifting and removing the engine
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15110
Re: Lifting and removing the engine
Hi Mark. Thanks for the link. We're creeping along on the refit: have most of the structural done, the forepeak area completed, new foredeck hatch, etc. I want to get the engine out before starting cosmetic on the main saloon. Still torn on the engine, which is why I've waited so long to address the...
- Sun Apr 29, 2018 3:17 am
- Forum: Electrical
- Topic: Lifting and removing the engine
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15110
Lifting and removing the engine
Any clever ideas for hoisting the MD6A off its mounts & up through the companionway, then over the starboard side & 3m to the ground -- with the boat on stands & the mast down? I've decided to pull the engine completely & probably either have it rebuilt or replace it with a remanufactured engine. To...
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 4:48 pm
- Forum: Rig and Sails
- Topic: Forward chainplate above head sawn-off, problems?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12511
Re: Forward chainplate above head sawn-off, problems?
I'd be a bit worried by the loss of support. Those metal trusses are annoying and somewhat bodged together, a result of Rolf locating the forward lower shroud exactly halfway between two bulkheads. But they have that triangular depth profile for a reason: they need to transfer upwards pull on a 0.6m...