Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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| Bon Voyage , cruising newsgroup.. will be leaving Clyde Henpecker 04:03:58 |
| | I am off to other interests.. having sold my Bristol 32.
Just wanted to thank all who have answered any of my inquiries
over the last few years..
Sailing and cruising .. huum.. I have been doing this off and on
since 1978 .. The ususal .. buy a boat, sail for a few years, sell
boat, swear I will never buy another one .. buy a boat ,, sail for ...
I've decided to do some traveling .. not in the traditional sense.
But.. I will concentrate on this for some time...
Fair Winds....
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008
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| Interior partition material needed Jimjamie 21:17:46 |
| | I've installed a head in a lobster boat. Now I want to enclose it.
What should I use for the 'studs'?
Wood 2x3 tends to warp. Does someone make a vinyl stud about 1.5 x1.5 or so?
I was going to use a 3/4 birch veneer plywood w/o studs but thought I could
reduce weight by using a thin plastic veneer over a stud frame.
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| Winterizing Questions Geoff Schultz 20:48:55 |
| | I've completed my Down East Circle route cruise and for the first time
since I've owned BlueJacket, I need to really winterize her. I'm quite
good at preparing her for summering over in tropical climates, but this
cold stuff...Burrr!
For all intents and purposes, I've completed the winterization, but I have
a couple of lingering questions:
1) According to the boat yard, they disconnect the cold/in and hot/out
lines to the hot water heater and hook them together. Then they simply
drain the hot water tank. I did this, but I can never get all of the water
out. That makes me concerned, so I fed some anti-freeze into the tank
which will get diluted with the remaining water. Is this OK and/or how do
others winterize their hot water heater?
2) The life raft has water in it. Is there any reason to be concerned over
this? I could just bring it home and store it in the basement.
-- Geoff
www.GeoffSchultz.org
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| installing a calorifier Juan Bassols 14:16:48 |
| | I would like to install a calorifier connected to the boat engine. Could
somebody give me advise how to do it and how to avoid mistakes? My
engine is a Iveco aifo 8141 and I would like to connect a small
calorifier, preferably a flat one to fix it near the engine. Thank you!
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Monday, 13 October 2008
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| Catalina 36 Taas 17:35:53 |
| | Who owns - or has experience with - a Catalina 36 manufactured around 1992?
I'm thinking of buying one. They're not that common in Europe, so it's kind
of hard to find somebody who knows its weaknesses.
So... I would be really grateful, if somebody could give me some tips about
specifics to look for on a used Catalina 36 (not a Mk II).
Cheers,
Taas.
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| Re: Attn, Wilbur has his boat for sale! Roger Long 16:47:40 |
| | Doesn't a boat actually have to be in the water to sink a lot? I don't
think that one is his.
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Roger Long
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| ABYC H-33 Diesel Fuel Systems file needed Jimjamie 03:36:19 |
| | I have three rectangular diesel tanks. The three vents use a single, three
into one T so there is only one actual vent.
I know I need to re-do it as the T is below the level of the fuel fill. Fuel
entering tank A begins to fill tank B and C.
Does anyone have this part of the rules as I need to know if I will need 1
or 3 vents when I re-do it all.
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Sunday, 12 October 2008
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| Seth Thomas Quartzmatic deck clock... Larry 22:32:04 |
| | Roaming one of my fav thrift shops in the rain this afternoon, I was
cruising through the misc shelved "stuff" and sitting dead in the middle
of the cheap Chinese quartz clocks sat a genuine Seth Thomas
"Quartzmatic" deck clock I've found out was one of the first mechanical
quartz clocks Westclox/Seth Thomas ever made. It's circa 1972-75. On
the label it says:
Cat: 1028A
Name: Sea Sprite II
Model: 1028-001
Caution: Do not leave dead battery in clock.
Use One (1) 1 1/2 volt "C" cell.
The World's Most Accurate Clock
Quartzmatic by
Seth Thomas
division of General Time
A Talley Industries Company
Thomaston, Conn 06787
The case is a heavy grey metal that doesn't rust. It's painted in
military-style wrinkle black with just a couple of tiny scratches,
mostly out of sight on the back. The face is black with white chapter
ring and military-style numbers for minutes around the outside and the
2nd 24 hours inside the big numbers 1-12 hours. The red second hand is
on the same dial as the minute/hours and the movement can be stopped to
synchronize the clock with WWV and instantly restarted to set it right
to the second.
The movement proudly says: "Made In U. S. A." stamped into the brass
frame the nylon gears are mounted in. A real quartz crystal mounted in
a real crystal case like you'd see in an old radio has the frequency
4194.304 Khz stamped into it. An RCA CD22011E is the oscillator and
frequency divider providing TWO pulses per second to a nicely wound coil
that works against a multipole alinco magnet shaped like a little disk
on the primary driveshaft. 16 pulses makes this disk rotate one
revolution, the 2PPS drive motor for a nylon gear train to drive the
hands. It's very nicely made and cased in clear plastic that was also
mistakenly used to hold the big "C" cell power plant. The pressure of
the battery clips are pretty strong and had parted the plastic in 2
places. I repaired it with a low temperature soldering iron used to
remelt the hard plastic across the crack. The plastic is VERY brittle!
A sticker proclaiming QUARTZ and Model 73702 is still sealing a little
access hole you dip your non-metallic tuning tool into to adjust the
very nice trimmer capacitor to set the crystal frequency, exactly. The
plastic is embossed with "1 Div = 5 seconds/day" and the hole has
division markers embossed into it to help you tune it if you don't have
a frequency counter or heterodyne frequency meter available.
I paid the princely sum of 99 cents for it. I think they didn't like
its 3 pound weight! The casting is very heavy, but not brass, but a
dull grey color that doesn't rust. Even the back of the case is 1/8"
thick plate with a setting access hole in it plugged with a plastic plug
to keep the sea air out. A rubber seal seals the plate to the casting
and 3 screws hold the back on that must be removed to replace the
battery...assumably yearly, I hope.
Well, that and a nice 12V 8W battery and DC powered flourescent light
were today's jewels...$2.16 total....(c;
I don't even find it on Google! Nothing on Ebay, either....hmm...
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Saturday, 11 October 2008
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| Stock market Gordon 21:36:54 |
| | QUOTE of the day ... ON THE STOCK MARKET...
"This is worse than divorce because I've lost half my net worth....
................ and I still have my wife"
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| See her go! Roger Long 14:17:00 |
| | New pictures and videos of the research vessel on my website including this
full speed run past the harbor mouth:
http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/RVRCrunpast.wmv
--
Roger Long
http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma
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| 17 1959 Dorsett Catalina (HELP)! Skipp 08:08:00 |
| | Hello everyone this is my first time trying to tottally re-build my
1959 Dorsett! The boat sat out in the weather for 17+ years (yes a
very long time) so you can imagine all of the wood was completely
rotted! I think im sort of handy so i decided to FIX-ER-UP well so far
i tottally gutted it and i have 3 out of 6 new stringers fiberglassed
back in-now my question is i completely chipped the old rotted transom
out and now it is time to replace it-first off what kind of glue
should i use- im cutting new transom out of 3/4 inch treated plywood
but gonna double it up for a solid 1 1/2 inch (the original was only 1
inch) -to glue the new transom to the back fiberglass and i really DO
NOT understand what keeps my 50 HP johnson motor (very heavy) from
rippen the back of the boat off!
ANY-N-ALL HELP APPRECIATED
SKIPP 
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Posted at author's request, using moderated http://www.BoatingForumz.com interface
Thread archive: http://www.BoatingForumz.com/17-1959-Dorsett-Catalina-HELP-ftopict100100.html
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| Haversine Calculator Marty 03:37:43 |
| | Someone asked for an easy way to figure out how fast Skip was traveling.
Well I found a nice little on-line Haversine (the function to compute
the Great Circle distance between two points) calculator.
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
Just input the coordinates from two of Skips messages that are one hour
apart and out pops the distance in km. You can do a bit of conversion
from there.
From Skips' 1257 abd 1357 points he only traveled 10Kms, about 6nm.
Cheers
Marty
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| Value Boats and the DJIA Charles Momsen 02:44:49 |
| | When I made my clairvoyent post on 9/25/08 about considering buying value
boats for retirement the DJIA stood at 11,000. Today, just over 2 weeks
later the DJIA is near 8,000 a drop of about 30%. For the year the DJIA is
down about 5,000 or about 40%.
If your retirement income is tied to the DJIA you've seen it drop 40% this
year alone. Imagine 10 years of retirement savings up in smoke. That's 20
years of retirement you won't have.
It looks like some of you may have a retirement other than what you planned
for. Decades of thrift and savings went away. The guy who lived high on the
hog and high in debt may even be better off than you, a bankruptcy wiped out
his excesses of the past.
What went wrong? Who is to blame? There's just too much money, so it is
going away, only to reappear at the outputs of government printing presses.
(Same amount, different owners)
As you ponder that, think of the brilliant Capt Neal. He has his reitrement
boat. He has his retirement. He is immune from the current crisis. It may be
too late for some of you but there are those for whom it isn't. Follow the
lead and sound philosophy of the good Capt Neal and a world of untold wealth
will be yours.
Capt Neal, a man whose life rings truer with each passing colossal
boondoogle of a socialist society.
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| Flying Pig Float Plan Skip Gundlach 01:46:03 |
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Flying Pig Float Plan
Our current plan is to depart on the falling tide on Monday, July
28 afternoon. Our best forecasts of currents and winds at this
time are for us to go directly East from St. Mary's River to the
Gulf Stream, taking advantage of the offshore currents to get us
there, rather than angling north to take the longer leg of the
triangle. We anticipate picking up the Gulf Stream early
Tuesday. Current in that area can be viewed here:
https://oceanography.navy.mil/legacy/web/cgi-bin/graphic.pl/metoc/223/145/0-0-17/16
Once in the Gulf Stream, weather and currents allowing, we'll
stay in it through approximately 38-00N/70-00W, about halfway
between Cape Charles and Cape May's latitude, then turn from its
eastward bend to Northeast, approaching Cape Cod. Current in
that area can be viewed here:
https://oceanography.navy.mil/legacy/web/cgi-bin/graphic.pl/metoc/223/145/0-0-17/24
At approximately 40-37N and 69-00W, we'll turn north, to go
through the Great South Channel off Cape Cod, and once clear of
the shoal areas, turn slightly northwest to go to Portland.
Depending on what time we arrive, the currents could be very
favorable or heavily against us. You can see those here:
https://oceanography.navy.mil/legacy/web/cgi-bin/graphic.pl/metoc/223/145/0-0-17/32
We intend daily reports via sailmail, as well as having our SPOT
(http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?&glId=0sKGa9AJRCF45FaX5L5g6PLcZGvSb3nMe)
on continuously during our passage. We'll also send "OK"
messages via Spot on a daily basis.
At this time weather, wind and currents all look very good for
our passage, but in the event that changes, or there are
equipment difficulties which suggest otherwise, we'll not
hesitate to come in from wherever we are at the time.
See our log listings for the daily reports...
L8R
Skip and Lydia (and Portia, of course!)
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery !
Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog
and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power
to make it come true. You may have to work for it however."
(and)
"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in
its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts."
(Richard Bach, in The Reluctant Messiah)
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Friday, 10 October 2008
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| Navico-Corus: VMG asymmetry Ulrich G . Kliegis 22:21:13 |
| | Folks,
Has anyone else observed this:
The Navico Corus instruments can compute VMG when a log sensor and the
masthead unit (wind direction and speed) are available.
Now, the wind direction sensor needed a corrective offset on my boat,
although mounted very straight. The manual says that this is normal,
and under all other conditions, the readings look alright. Other than
the computed VMG. On one bow, I get phantastic values, coming close to
90% of vtw when beating close-hauled, on the other bow, this breaks
down to a meager 20% or so.
Did the guys (i know that the old Navico company was dissolved some
years ago) forget to include the offset in the VMG computation?
Thanks for any enlighting information.
Cheers,
U.
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| Re: Cowboy Jobs - All Job Board Cavelamb Himself 19:29:32 |
| | Bob wrote:
On Oct 7, 10:41 am, Bolaleman <hull...@hotmail.com> wrote: Ya ever wonder why theyre called COWBOYS and not COWMEN? If ya ever get to spend any time around a bunch of cowboys it is obvious. Like the bumper sticker says on the girls truck, " I expect more than an 8 second ride...." Bob
Around these parts, they are called cowboys - or cattleMEN.
Depends or the score.
--
Richard
(remove the X to email)
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| OT - Go, Wachovia, GO! Larry 03:18:19 |
| | The ruse worked perfectly! What's left of Wachovia, shedding the bank in
trouble, is up 45% ALREADY this morning!...(c;
Ooops...spoke too soon....49% at 9:59!
10AM....Doubled my money!
As SOON as any big gun crashes....BUY, BUY, BUY! no matter how low it goes.
Once again, and always, you see this incredible bounce from disaster as
they just can't stand to see a brand name so cheap after all these years.
Somebody BIG is buying Wachovia....well, besides me....(c;
Back on the roller coaster for the 2nd time this week! This time on a
company that's NOT bankrupt, so far. Target price is $16. If that happens
I'm gonna be one happy camper....
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Thursday, 9 October 2008
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| More shameless self promotion Roger Long 15:34:18 |
| | The "Points East" story about my late October cruise last year is out in the
Last Words section of the current issue for those of you in New England.
Also in the magazine is a review of the book "Titanic's Last Secrets" by
Brad Matsen which is now available atmost book stores. Long sections on my
reseach and theories; even a brief bio on my childhood.
--
Roger Long
(Just felt like annoying Bob this morning
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Wednesday, 8 October 2008
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| Switlik Lift Reaft Valves - Information and Caution Armond Perretta 19:34:41 |
| | I last had my raft serviced in August 07, a painfully expensive job since I
"needed" a 5 year inspection, a new valve, etc. This is a 4-man raft in a
canister that I carried offshore during a 2008 cruise. Now in the most
recent Practical Sailor I came across a note stating that Switlik (the
factory) is recalling and replacing certain inflation valve models due to a
problem with o-rings and o-ring lubricants. It happens that the authorized
service company that worked on my gear used the valve model in question.
When I called the service company I was informed that they would indeed
replace the valve in question at no charge, but only if I also had the raft
serviced and repacked (a $400 plus procedure). When I stated that I only
wanted the valve replaced, they insisted that was not possible and they
would not do the job. I don't have my raft serviced annually, even though
that is what's recommended (_of course_ it is). In my application annual
service is overkill. The last time the raft was professionally serviced
prior to August 07 was (don't laugh) 1994 - 13 years ago - and when the
service company tested it using the cable pull it inflated perfectly and
held air without loss for several days prior to actual servicing. Some may
argue that this is a false economy, but as they say, "different ships,
different long splices."
My complaint is this. The service company knew there was a problem and they
never notified me, a customer on record as having a raft with a faulty
valve. I was told simply that having factory-required warranty work at
their location was going to cost.
In the end I called the Switlik factory direct. They are quite close to
where I live and they agreed to do the replacement at no cost and do not
require a repack. I thought others might be interested in my experience.
--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare
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| Re: VGA over CAT5e Wayne . B 12:48:47 |
| | On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:05:00 -0700 (PDT), BigAl.NZ@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys, I need to get a VGA signal from the Nav Station in my boat to the monitor in the bridge. I could just run a VGA cable (about 4m worth) but I need to pass the cable through some small holes for the looming (sp?) and the DB15 connectors wont fit unless I make the hole bigger. I am thinking about running the VGA singal over CAT5e, which a Google search seems to suggest is possible. I was wondering if anyone had any better ideas, keeping costs fairly low.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ethernet+vga+extender
generates 257,000 hits.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kvm+cat5+extender
generates 140, 000 hits.
Here's a few that look promising:
http://sewelldirect.com/KVMcat5extender.asp
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=503&sku=39970
Has anyone here had any success cutting the end off a VGA cable and wiring on a new DB15 for example?
You would need the skills of a micro-surgeon and a very fine solder
tip.
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