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#1

Boat Discussion / Re: Maintaining 4 Sailboats

Last post by wolverine - April 09, 2026, 02:29:28 PM

Took her out for a 2 hour sail. She was heeling most the time with 18mph winds gusting to 24. I had a heck of a time raising the main. The battens kept catching the lazy jack lines. On the way in the auto helm would steer off course enough the alarm would sound. Something else needing attention. The main has mud dauber stains on it and the stack pack filthy inside. Took me an hour and a half to remove both from the boom. At home now getting ready to wash them.

#2

Boat Discussion / Re: An old girlfriend just cal...

Last post by CapnK - April 09, 2026, 12:16:49 PM

Here's what I see in Frank's pics:

SAILBOAT          SUNSET

SCALLOPS          MORE SCALLOPS

;D

#3

Boat Discussion / Re: Maintaining 4 Sailboats

Last post by CapnK - April 09, 2026, 12:15:17 PM

overfill/vent

Bugs love to inhabit them things...

#4

Boat Discussion / Re: An old girlfriend just cal...

Last post by Frank - April 09, 2026, 12:06:53 PM

Hung around Manjack a few days visiting old sailing friends and neighbors..
And getting visited by sharks and rays...

#5

Boat Discussion / Re: Box boat

Last post by Frank - April 09, 2026, 11:58:36 AM

I think you should do The Loop with it. You'll be Famous!

This tiny gal will be a "calm water only" boat...
Pretty sure the inevitable sport fish flying by would topple it...

#6

Boat Discussion / Re: Maintaining 4 Sailboats

Last post by Godot - April 09, 2026, 10:48:05 AM

Then there is the stern water tank. I flushed the pink stuff from all the lines, then filled the bow tank. While filling the stern tank, instead of running out the overflow, it came up through the lid and wetted everything in the quarter berth. The same berth I just stuffed all my gear for an overnight sail. Sleeping bag, sheets, pillow, clothing, foul weather gear, wetsuit, extra lines. Now I need to empty it, dry everything out, and find why the overflow didn't...overflow.

I have had a problem with overfilling my tank. It would bulge up, lift the berth cushion, and eventually leak out of the inspection port. My overfill/vent is probably clogged somewhere. It still works, but probably not as well as it should. Not a trivial issue to replace the tube, though. That said, I can use the tank just fine and have taken to filling it by bringing the hose inside the boat. Just as well as the deck fill seems to have seized shut (I'm guessing because I put in extra bleach one year to "shock" the system, went sailing to stir it up, but got called away for a couple weeks before I had a chance to flush the system...I'm guessing the chlorine gasses are corrosive to the deck fill alloy). At least this way no water will accidentally make it's way in from the deck fitting. And, when I get around to installing another tank I won't been tempted to drill another hole in my deck for yet another deckfill.

#7

Boat Discussion / Re: Maintaining 4 Sailboats

Last post by CapnK - April 08, 2026, 06:45:04 AM

Heard wind noise all night, boat was shifting around a lot. Just poked my head out of the hatch, coffee in hand to take in the morning. Nope. Head back in and hatch closed 5 seconds later. Not a good time to be out on open water... especially not with Murphy lurking aboard like that.

#8

Boat Discussion / Re: Box boat

Last post by wolverine - April 07, 2026, 10:57:05 PM

About 2 weeks ago I met a couple doing the loop in a shanty boat. They designed and built it on a 24' pontoon boat frame.

#9

Boat Discussion / Re: Maintaining 4 Sailboats

Last post by wolverine - April 07, 2026, 10:51:56 PM

Things are coming along...okay. The Compac 19 is all ready to splash. The Seidelmann just needs the interior cleaned up a little. The Orion? Every time I complete a task, 3 more are revealed. I washed and am waterproofing all the canvass. Today I took her out for a spirited sail. While out the Genoa caught on the spreader and tore the protective sunbrella covering. I need to install those spreader boots. While dropping the main I noticed one of the sail slides wasn't connected to the sail. Back in the slip it looks like I'll have to remove the sail pack to get to the slide. The mast has a track instead of slugs. Then there is the stern water tank. I flushed the pink stuff from all the lines, then filled the bow tank. While filling the stern tank, instead of running out the overflow, it came up through the lid and wetted everything in the quarter berth. The same berth I just stuffed all my gear for an overnight sail. Sleeping bag, sheets, pillow, clothing, foul weather gear, wetsuit, extra lines. Now I need to empty it, dry everything out, and find why the overflow didn't...overflow.

The overnight sail? Cancelled after I provisioned the boat. I guess the club feels the predicted 30+mph winds and a smallcraft advisory warranted it.

#10

Boat Discussion / Re: Spring Commissioning

Last post by CapnK - April 07, 2026, 08:53:57 PM

Those last turns can be super tight too....
Hard to get off...

Frank, Master of Understatement. lol

Those last turns you discover that you have converted line to some sort of alloy... ;D