Painting topsides
Our hull is pretty banged up, but otherwise the boat is in good shape.
Today I repainted the boot stripe and as I pulled off the low-tack tape
bits of gel coat came off with the tape! What do I need
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a41967t27
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#9912
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Re: Atomic 4 Throttle and reversing gear shifter
Thanks Carl. I¡¯ll look into, those.
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EeBe4 <ebreeden4@...>
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#9911
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Re: gooseneck toggle -- standard part or suggest custom fabrication shop?
Yeah, I'm up the creek from the San Francisco bay. There's more
marine stuff out here than you can shake a stick at, and also
more boats. Demand outstrips supply. Then up here, marine
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aksjghkajshd
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#9910
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Re: Atomic 4 Throttle and reversing gear shifter
Uflex, Morse, Kobelt all make sail boat single lever controls. Also check with Moyer Marine.
We are changing our double lever to a Uflex single.
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Carl Damm
DAMSELv
1976 #593
Stuart Fl
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Carl Damm
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#9909
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Re: gooseneck toggle -- standard part or suggest custom fabrication shop?
Also a rigging shop, the whole aluminum goose neck may be standard, and most rigging shops have a good handle on custom fabrication in house or local.
Here we use Florida rigging in Riviera Beach or
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Carl Damm
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#9908
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Re: gooseneck toggle -- standard part or suggest custom fabrication shop?
So, it looks like your primary problem is the aluminum ob the boom is failing.? Generally speaking, aluminum fabrication is less expensive in my experience. It may be easier to pull the end out of
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Carl Damm
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#9907
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gooseneck toggle -- standard part or suggest custom fabrication shop?
Hello all,
I emailed Rig Rite and a local fabricator and haven't heard back yet.
Don't know if there's a huge long wait, a moderate wait, or I won't
hear from them at all so thought I'd ask. Often
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aksjghkajshd
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#9906
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Atomic 4 Throttle and reversing gear shifter
Given an Atomic 4 with your T27, what is your setup for throttle and shifter? Mine has a shifter in the starboard wall of the cockpit and a small knob in the same "niche" with the choke knob in the
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EeBe4 <ebreeden4@...>
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#9905
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Re: Tartan 27 for sale in NJ
Hey Guys, I presently am offering Sea Gypsy (hull #453) for sail. The boat has a great running Atomic 4, new exhaust system with modern water lift muffler. Fuel pump, carberator and both engine
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Chris McLoughlin
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#9904
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Tartan 27 for sale in NJ
Hi all, we¡¯ve moved and I can¡¯t continue my efforts to restore Moonshine.
She¡¯s got a near-new Universal m-18 and redone chain plates, but there are
soft spots in the cockpit and the interior is
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aaronkuriloff
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#9903
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Re: Cutlass Bearing Issue
Congratulations on your new boat!
We also inherited a toxic dump in the bilge. It probably had not been cleaned in a generation. The best we could do is what others suggested
* Start with oil
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lm53187
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#9902
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Re: Cutlass Bearing Issue
When I cleaned my bilge I used Star brite Super Orange Citrus Bilge Cleaner
and a wet-dry vac. I used used the cheap $25 bucket head shop-vac from home
depot which fits on the 5 gallon buckets.
I had
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jeremy@...
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#9901
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Re: Cutlass Bearing Issue
To remove the cutlass bearing, you can carefully use a sawzall with metal
cutting blade to cut a notch or two into the circumference, then collapse
the metal into itself and pull it out. Just be
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Brent Bass
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#9900
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Re: Cutlass Bearing Issue
Hi Scott,
If I haven't already (it's been a looong year), welcome, and
congratulations on the new-to-you sailboat.
Deep Blue Yacht Supply seems to have a good selection of cutlass
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aksjghkajshd
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#9899
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Re: Cutlass Bearing Issue
Having just read John Bailey's remarks on removing the old cutlass bearing I am reminded that the method he describes is exactly how we did it.? Cut the bearing with a Sawzall metal blade and peel it
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Caleb Davison
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#9898
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Re: Cutlass Bearing Issue
Hi Scott,
Welcome.
The cutlass bearing should be 4" long, inserted into the deadwood of the keel (there is no strut which is a metal thing that hangs down from the hull to hold the shaft that does not
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Caleb Davison
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#9897
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Re: Cutlass Bearing Issue
Scott,
I replaced Kiltie's cutlass about 6 years ago.
She did not have set screws, although I have heard that some T27's do. The
rubber is bonded to the bearing and is at least 2" long. I would
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John Bailey
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#9896
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Cutlass Bearing Issue
When we hauled our ¡°new to us¡± boat for the first time for winter storage, we noticed this oddity on the shaft. It appears to be the rubber part of the cutlass bearing, working its way out of the
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SCOTT ROSASCO
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#9895
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Cutlass Bearing Issue
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Scott Rosasco
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#9894
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Re: Boat for sale
Thanks, Robert
Mel?
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Mel Berry
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#9893
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