On Wednesday, February 2, 2022, 03:11:55 PM PST, Scott Walters <scrottie@...> wrote:
Richard Shearley posted earlier just saying "Information".? Clicking
through randomly, I noticed that Tartan actually posted a nice,
high-res scan of the blueprints... three, actually.? Here's the
Construction Plan:
As of a few years ago, unless I'm mistaken, there was only a low res
jpg where lettering was illegible.? This one is clearly readable and
also clearly for the non-encapsulated ballast.? (Schock started doing
encapsulated ballast before McLeod/Tartan did.)
One ongoing discussion is
servicing/repairing/rebuilding/replacing/throwing away the
centerboard.?
reports that "the first dozen boats built in 1961 were bronze".? This
may be a not too distant project.? It's blowing 24mph gusting 34 today
and yesterday in the CA delta.? I'll take the extra weight.? As it is,
it's just wearing through my non-chafe-protected 1/2" dock lines.
Lots of small projects.? New plexiglass over the engine instrument
panel which some PO installed in the forward part of the cockpit next
to the centerboard uphaul.? Some cleaning up electrical.? Replaced a
broken compass (float listing to one side, plexiglass crazed, no idea
which way is north) with a small plotter from PO that was on an arm
that I'd taken down early on.? Re-used the same holes in the coach
back.? Too many holes already.? Trying not to add more.? Set up the
depth sounder.? Should have done that a long time ago.? Got stuck on a
sandbar for an unpleasant 15 minutes last year then immediately did it
again trying to tack back out, and then was badly dragging bottom a
couple of times this year so giving up on the "if it's shallow, I'll
see the bottom!" theory.? This last time, it was near a wreck, which
should have been a wake-up call then.? I bought a Hawkeye depth
sounder but no where in the hull below the water line can it actually
sound through, testing with Vasoline, but the little black and white
Lowrance Mark 4 can.? Reading more too late, the Hawkeye is super low
power and often has this problem.? I was doing that when I'd notice
that electrical to the compass had failed.? Masthead light is out but
power makes it to the mast base.? Not fixing that today.? Been using
my Garmin eTrex 20x with Bluecharts loaded on it because it predicts
tides and being able to hold it up to my face is handy absent a huge
screen.? Kind of crazy that it supports Bluecharts 2 but sadly it
doesn't 3.? Need to investigate a report of community converted NOAA
charts.? There's definitely no way to get depth soundings on it tho,
tho maybe the eTrex 30 does since it talks to a bunch of kinds of
sensors.? Rebedding mast hardware and finding some unhappy holes.
Replaced a bunch of lines and getting ready to replace everything
else.? Had new standing rigging put up last year by Scott Easom/Easom
Racing, who was awesome.? Re-did chainplate anchoring more last year
after getting out of stern tube purgatory.? Or maybe it was before.
With the dripless, except topside leaks during rainstorms (mast,
cockpit lockers), the bilge is dry, but I have two bilge pumps and set
up a third diaphram pump on a timer and solar panel and it's own small
battery to run 1 minute once a week to try to clear the last bit of
water when I'm not here.? Trying the Calgon detergent method to clean
out the holding tank.? Still have some soggy parts of the deck to deal
with.? That's frustrating as the decks were solid when I got the boat,
and I immediately started re-bedding stuff, but I apparently wasn't
fast enough and there were too many projects to be able to focus on
that.? Some of it seems to be just the fiberglass laminate cracking
after decades in the California sun and heat.? Been trying to watch
for cracks and have several just spacked over with 4200.? Cal Sailing
Club club Pearson Commanders got a layer of new fiberglass on their
decking and it looks like I'll have to do the same.? Still thinking
about electric.? The Kubota Z500 has been running without issue but
even with a wet exhaust, the exhaust is noxious, and given that it's
raw water cooled, I have no idea how long it will continue to run.
Last year I had the presence of mind to leave it with antifreeze
sucked up in to it.? Did fiberglass exhaust fix on parts of the
exhaust system and I think the only leaking after that and clamping
connections better and plugging up the exhaust manifold water jacket
is just the engine breather but it still slowly leaks a cloud of
diesel smoke.? Figured out the first of the two circuits on the Noco
genius battery tender/charger was only not working because of a fuse.
Project to move cockpit scuppers to above the water line is still half
done.? Was going to pull her safely to one side and do that but marina
instituted a no drilling, grinding, sanding policy, so that's on the
list of haulout projects now.? Want to get rid of one more unused
thru-hull anyway by the head that's attached to some hose that just
goes nowhere that a toddler would probably immediately use to scuttle
the boat.? Solar charger for the main battery that's back-up for shore
power which can be flakey blew its fuse in its cigarette lighter
adapter which is kind of amazing.? How does a small battery tender
style solar panel blow a fuse?? That's two fuses.? Got a nylon
webbing mast ladder but getting slugs on to it and the mast would be a
project (no easy way to get them on the mast without removing the
gooseneck backing plate) so thinking of just doing it mast hoop style
with bits of line up to the spreaders, ordered an ascender for safety
backup to attach to, and she came with a nylon webbing harness.
Hauled up tight on the halyard, unattached to the mast, I'm still
winding up at a serious negative incline, so hoping mast lashings
help.? When Easom was out inspecting the rigging (wasn't here when he
and a helper were re-doing rigging), he hoisted himself aloft with
nothing more than a harness, a lot of line, and a mainsheet block,
which let him swing out and look at spreader tips.? I do not have
those kinds of gonads:?
Got some Innovative Lighting portable bow and stern lights at least as
a backup if nothing else if I do fix masthead tri lights and it fails
underway.? A Clipper Supernova Tricolor Light and both of them seem
disappointingly not bright but the Allied Signal tri-light that's up
there probably wasn't super bright either and I just accepted it
because it was already there so idk.
So, if anyone has a bronze centerboard laying around, hit me up.
Cheers,
-scott, #93
