Wednesday, 5 November 2008
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| Crips lines in Gelcoat Dan Hapster 23:40:34 |
| | I'm re-gelcoating a boat. I am spraying the field one color, and a
different color boot stripe. I am trying to achieve a very crisp line
between the two colors but it's proving to be a challenge with the
thickness of gelcoat I'm trying to build at approx 20-25 mils.
I'm spray the stripe first taped on the top and bottom edge. Spraying
the dark blue after.
Need a very crisp line between the two. This way after it is sanded,
the two colors will be flat, just like it popped out of the mold.
I'm using 5 layers of 3M's 213 fine line tape, one layer right over
the other both edges of the boottop. Then spraying the gelcoat until
it fills the void.
Pulling the tape while the gelcoat is tacky results in an edge that
sags.
Pulling the tape after it sets up results in a chipped edge.
I am now sanding the over spray off the top layer of tape until the
tape's edge is exposed. This yields a very crisp line, but it is labor
intensive.
Are there any tricks out there?
How do they put stripes in a mold?
I'm trying to achieve perfection cuz good enough is just not good
enough.
Thanks,
Dan
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
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| Planning Around What You Have - Aluminum Boat Plansd Bob La Londe 15:46:47 |
| | Ok... It looks like I am going to have to junk my fiberglass bass boat.
Over the last few months I have been doing a repair and rebuild project on
an aluminum bass boat that had been wreched. I bought it for less than
salvage. Now I am looking for a decent bass boat design for a bigger water
bass boat.
I figure outboards are the most expensive part of most small craft. Add in
rigging and the hull is almost an afterthought for some. Anyway. I am
looking for designs to take advatage of the outboards and riggingI already
have. I've got a great condition (mechanically) Black Max 150 and a good
condition Optimax 225. Being a psychotic ego tripping speed junky bass
fisherman I am ideally looking for designs that will have a max HP rating
similar to the motors I have available to put on them. What I have found is
that either the designs available are not ideal for a bass fishing layout or
they aren't available in the max HP range I am looking for. I did notice
that several designer underated the HP when you plug in the formulas from
the backyard boat builder pamphlet from the Coast Guard, but I really
hesitate to deviate from the HP ratings of the designer.
I am specifically looking for aluminum designs.
I have also considered buying a couple designs and then using them to derive
my own design and rate it myself.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
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| outboard well Paul Oman 19:20:10 |
| | Hello all - thought I would experiment an outboard well in a small
rowboat I'm slapping together (can always remove the well). Looking for
what size I need to make it. How wide, deep, tall (it would be for a
very small electric or gas engine)
paul
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Saturday, 1 November 2008
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| Southbound Swan 44 lost off the New Jersey coast along with owner/skipper Wayne . B 23:14:47 |
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One lost, two rescued, USCG Rescue Swimmer injured.
The boat, Freefall, was owned until recently by well known Long
Island Sound racing sailor, Bill McFaul, whom I raced with and raced
against any number of times. Apparently the new owner was taking the
boat south this week in some pretty gnarly conditions. The boat was
well built as you might expect for a Swan 44, and always well
maintained and equipped when I sailed on it.
https://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/651/236966/
Reading the USCG account of conditions, you have to wonder what the
heck they were thinking of going out there. Tragic. At least they
had a working EPIRB, properly registered.
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| Re: OT Happy Halloween! Larry 20:16:22 |
| | "Capt. JG" <jganz@sailnow.invalid> wrote in
news:ir2dnecSv6uX55bUnZ2dnUVZ_rHinZ2d@posted.bayareasolutions:
Not completely as off-topic as it might first appear... You'll need your sound keep it on low as you'll get static. Something appears at the very center of the screen near the picture frame above the table. You'll have to look closely, but don't get too close to the monitor. It takes about 30 seconds, so be patient. If you miss it the first time, wait another 30 seconds or so.
Those kids better hurry up pretty quick! We've ALREADY run out of the best
candy and not a single kid has yet knocked on the door! It's amazing how
fast candy can leak out of a partially opened plastic bag!
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| FS: 1996 "The Liquid Quarter-Mile Missiles" (Drag Boat) VHS Video Cassette J.R. Sinclair 13:35:31 |
| | 1996 "The Liquid Quarter-Mile Missiles" (Drag Boat) VHS Video Cassette
I have for sale the 1996 Main Event Entertainment "The Liquid Quarter-Mile
Missiles" (Drag Boat) VHS Video Cassette (Factory-Sealed).
Back-Of-The-Box Excerpt:
"The liquid quarter mile, a 40' rooster tail...The thunderous roar of a
top-fuel hydro...This is drag boat racing at its finest! Taking You Where
An Admission Pass Never Will!!"
The 1996 "The Liquid Quarter-Mile Missiles" (Drag Boat) VHS Video Cassette
is in MINT condition.
Price $15. US plus postage
Please include your "postal mailing address" so I can calculate postage
costs to your destination. Thank you
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Friday, 31 October 2008
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| R/V Rachel Carson Jere Lull 18:16:09 |
| | Looks like Roger and company just pulled into the Solomons, perhaps
right to her slip.
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Jere Lull
Xan- -Deux -- Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
Xan's pages: http://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/
Our BVI trips & tips: http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/
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| Re: Rolling remedies Capt. JG 16:08:53 |
| | "Len" <lendenbesten@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:e7209abb-7bca-42eb-be17-c3e3b5e5dce7@34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
Hi ng, Normally I'm lurking but now I've got a question. On our crossings we normally have a downwind course. When the wave's come in at say between 120 and 160 degrees our boat tends to roll a 10 degrees over starboard and 10 degrees over port. What I do is getting the weight as low as possible, even out as much as possible the sail surface's at port and starbord, and sometimes steer another course. I wonder if you are familiar with any further techniques I havent thought of yet. Any advice is welcome. Thanks in advance, Len, pa2q
I can't think of anything besides not sailing a different course.
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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com
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| Insulators for SSB Antenna Michael Porter 03:56:04 |
| | I am looking for a couple of insulators for the ends of a long-wire
SSB antenna (_not_ a backstay). Glass insulators with a hole at each
end used to be common, but I haven't seen any lately, and Google
doesn't seem to help much. Any leads appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael Porter
Michael Porter Marine Design
mporter at mp-marine dot com
www.mp-marine.com
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
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| Dayshapes for heeling boat under power Charles Momsen 00:01:38 |
| | The dayshapes required for a heeling boat under power in a channel are 2
yellow balls suspended on the side of the heel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epz6BBZm__0
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
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| MaxSea NavNet TomS 21:47:38 |
| | In a Furuno NavNet vx2 system is it possible to run several
(at least two) PCs with MaxSea Navnet Commander?
Has anyone tested this?
Regards,
TomS
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| Caulk Gogarty 21:29:29 |
| | It being layup time, went shopping at Post Marine for various odds and
ends. One item needed was BoatLife Life Caulk sealant for rebedding a
leaking deck deadlight. It sells for around $14 for a 2 oz tube. They
did not have any. So I went to Home Depot and after carefully examining
all the products on sale to do the same thing, bought a 6 oz tube of
non-silicone sealant for around $3.00. Seems to work. Any reason why it
should not?
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| Deals on bluewater boats yet? Ray Lunder 02:58:18 |
| | Looking for a used cruise equiped 30-40 foot sailboat for approx a us
buck per foot. Any ideas? Techniques? I've tried 38/48 north and
craigslist so far. Most of these are worn out craft from the 60/70's
in need of major refit or were never cruise equiped in the first
place. To cruise equip a boat at present "boatyard" or "west marine"
cost is prohibitive. I'm in washington state, usa but don't mind
flying somewhere. You'd think with all these bank problems people
would be forced to sell luxury items. Are we going to see a 70's style
bargain hunter season any time soon? Please don't let this degrade
into a political thread, I just want to buy a boat. What's a person
with ready cash to do?
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| The reason for boat balls, an update Jan 01:04:41 |
| | Late last night, a huge sailboat came ghosting into this marina.
David, her owner and captain usually sails Aratinga, a 60 foot Alden
with an 80 foot mast, outside on the open ocean but he said he thought
this year he d like to try the ICW. Now this is quite the
accomplishment, given that the fixed bridge heights on the ICW are all
around 65 feet. David ingeniously rigged up a way of tilting his boat
over so that she slides under the bridges, healed up on an angle. He
has two one-ton (yes, 1 ton) thick rubber bags of water hanging midway
up his mast. His boat has a slight tilt to starboard anyways and when
he wants to tilt Aratinga over to pass under a bridge, he lets the
line out on these bags of water so they hang over the side and that
increases his starboard list. He figures that to cut 10-15 feet off
his mast, he has to let the bags hang out 10-15 feet to starboard.
It s worked up to this point and I ll bet this New Zealander will be
the talk of the ICW for years to come.
http://strathspey.ca/?m=200711
Jan
"If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined"
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Wednesday, 29 October 2008
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| I'm Skippy! Hey lookit meeeee! Wilbur Hubbard 16:04:46 |
| | Now, that idiot Skippy is using his SPOT on the interstate highways.
<http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?&glId=0sKGa9AJRCF45FaX5L5g6PLcZGvSb3nMe>
Bwahahahahhahahahahahahahahahh! Like I've always said, he can't live without
thinking he's the center of attention.
Wilbur Hubbard
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| Re: Electone (OT) Jere Lull 09:15:58 |
| | On 2008-10-28 23:41:59 -0400, Larry <noone@home.com> said:
Don't think so? Go to youtube.com and enter "Electone" into the youtube search engine. You'll see young girls and women sitting at Yamaha Electone home organs. Play the videos. Hell, one of them is 10 years old and can hardly reach the pedals she can play in 16th notes at a terrific pace.....perfectly. I think they have a breeding farm and are continuing the genetic experiments since the war. NOONE can play STAR WARS MEDLEY in SIX parts all on ONE little organ....and sound like John Williams directing the Boston Symphony Orchestra in some girl's little bedroom.....try it...amazing.
You probably don't know him, but I have spent hours listening to a guy
from NJ named Don Slepian who plays a most amazing instrument that
*will* pretty accurately represent an orchestra, or choir, or band, or
organ or, or, or... in combinations of same.
And his keyboard is a single register, no pedals other than what
amounts to "sustain" and possibly an auxiliary programming switch (I
could be remembering an earlier version on that last). Two can carry
his whole kit out to the car between us, amps, speakers and all. He
seems able to "split" the keyboard so certain keys/sections can
represent separate instrument combinations, so I guess he has several
virtual registers.
The primary difference is that his keys have two sequential contacts:
The processor not only measures how hard he presses the keys, but how
fast. The same key can be percussion (fast and hard), strings (slow and
soft), horns (slow and hard), something else for fast and soft. Allows
him to change "instruments" keypress by keypress.
Listening and watching <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ueMCJ3fsu0>
seems to indicate that the Electone may have similar capabilities. If
so, the half-dozen musicians I've watched are hardly touching the
instrument's capabilities. Even that piece is rather mono-toned. (After
an hour of the highest-rated ones, I got bored from the lack of dynamic
range.)
Hate to say this, though: Some of the Electone samples grate on my
nerves even with the limited range of the instrument given the three or
more dedicated registers. I admit to being rather more critical than
most as I once was a pretty good French horn player and grew up
listening to some pretty decent organs live: Wanamaker's, their earlier
one housed at Drexel, and the Philly Orchestra's. Guy up near
Flemington, Bruce Williams, has some pretty decent ones, too. Oh, and
we have some pretty amazing kids at Curtis, too.
Still, I can understand how wonderful the Electone sounds compared to
the simpler keyboard instruments.
--
Jere Lull
Xan- -Deux -- Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
Xan's pages: http://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/
Our BVI trips & tips: http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/
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| Sailboat going under a low bridge with boat balls Jan 07:43:47 |
| | How to get a 50ft mast under a 40ft bridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epz6BBZm__0
Jan
"If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined"
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| Yuck Roger Long 05:14:24 |
| | Look at what we'll be standing out in handling lines in while trying to keep
our beautiful new boat off the rough canal lock walls in 30 knot winds.
http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx?location=USMA0046
We're at the point labled "ALB".
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Roger Long
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| Bush Administration willing to negotiate with terrorists Charles Momsen 03:54:13 |
| | Headline on today's Wall St journal:
"U.S. Mulls Talks With Taliban In Bid to Quell Afghan Unrest".
Obama has stated it as his policy a long, long time ago.
This clearly shows the Bush administration is as deranged as the leftist
Obama regime in waiting, and Obama will only continue Bush's failed
policies.
McCain will not negotiate with terrorists. When good compromises with evil,
the end result is evil.
The choice is clear - USE YOUR BRAIN -- VOTE MCCAIN!
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008
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| Re: Wee Lassie strip canoe form free Steve_Nack 21:48:44 |
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corvid;650418 Wrote:
I have two building forms I used to build two canoes. The canoes turned out great and now I need to get rid of the building forms. The formsare for building Mac Macarthys wee lassie model canoe. The forms are sturdy and well constructed from high quality plywood. They are set up for building using the "no staple" method. I am located in central vermont and could possibly help with delivery. I need the space for my next project and these are to nice to add to the scrap pile. Thanks for your interest.
I am interested in the forms. Please pmail me at steve_nack at gmail
dot com.
Thanks,
Steve
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Steve_Nack
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