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I got up early and started tightening up and tuning the upper and lower shrouds.. There is no adjustment on the roller furling unit. It is a fixed length. I set the uppers and lowers at the same poundage that I had her tuned to with the stock forstay and found that I was pulling the mast into a curve forward at the top of the mast.. This is a very bad thing. I also had massive aft rake compared to the just a very lot of rake sea puppy usually has. I spent most of the morning messing with it with no good results. Miriam showed up late in the afternoon while I was working on it and gave a hand also. Finally I started manufacturing new connecting plates for attaching the roller furling unit to the chain plate at the bow. A good drill for the holes and a roto zip with a metal cutting blade did a good job of creating the new plates.. lol at least they did after I got my measurements right. here is a picture of the installed furler with the new plates we made showing.
Early in the morning I went and cleaned up the roller furling unit and scrubbed the bird shit and pine sap off it from it being stored in pattys back yard for the last year and a half. Soapy water and a kitchen pad was good for the bird poop but it needed a stainless scraper to get the pine sap off. It looked much better for being scrubbed. I also went up and down the length cleaning out the to luff slots on the foil and ran water at pressure through the length of the furler to wash as much grit and dust out as I could. I then attached the furler and neatened up all halyards, lines and shrouds so it would be ready to carry to the boat and mount. I also sprayed the length of the slots with mclube sail kote.
This is a preview of Mast Repairs for Sea Puppy Part 4 Re-stepping the mast . Read the full post (1081 words, 0 images, estimated 4:19 mins reading time)
After going out on Pirate Girl racing with Miriam and Patty, I met Mike back at the marina to install the coax for the Vhf Antenna. I had met Mike the previous weekend sailing on Pirate Girl.. He is an Extra Class Ham Radio Operator that also teaches classes for ham radio in the local areas. I had gotten into a conversation with him about radios and such and mentioned that I was installing at vhf antenna on my mast and he volunteered to give me a hand with soldering the PL259 ends on and pulling the cable.
I spent a lot of time on friday working on the mast with Miriam helping me. I have to give her credit for being willing to spend a day out in the grueling sun workin on my mast with me.. It would have taken much longer with out her help.
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I put new sheeves in the base of the mast and a new main halyard sheeve in the masthead. The jib halyard, topping lift and spinnaker halyard sheeves looked to be in very good condition so I left them in.
I’ve known that there was something wrong with the main halyard sheeve in the top of the mast for a while.. It has been hard to pull the mainsail up and the halyard has been gradually fraying where it goes over the sheeve.. Well we (Richard, BIlly, Breck and I) pulled the mast down today and found that the sheeve is totally gone. The halyard has been being pulled up over the bare stainless shaft of the bolt that went through the sheeve..
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The sheeve that was there was a used one that Richard had around and installed this past November not long before I bought Sea Puppy from Patty. The moral of the story is not to put old used sheeves that you have to modify in as replacement parts.. I bought replacement sheeves for the mast and boom a few months ago and now that the mast is down will replace all of them.
Just me and Cary took Sea Puppy out sunday and it was a beautifull day.. the temperature was in the high 80’s and there was a nice breeze till late afternoon.. The seas were very low.. maybe 6 inchs to 1 foot of swell and just the cats paws that the wind rasied on the water.. We were one of the first boats out on the water. We got out and sailed about 2 miles from the inlet and then turned around to go mess with Breck in Runaway his Cabo Rico 38.
(ive been calling it a Cabo Rico 39 but he told me its actually a 38.. lol even though its 40+ over all including the bowsprit.. oh well boats are weird)
Well I got my mom and sister to come out with me to race. I also had Cary on board as crew… it started out as a great day. We got out on the ocean and the breeze was at about 10 knots. It was decided to do a leeward windward race to the sherman a wreck 6 miles away.. I got a great start and we poled out the 155 and just started shooting for the mark at about 4.5 knots… the only boats ahead of us were an S2 and Tarten 10 everyone else was falling behind 🙂
then disater… my sister started getting queasy….. 🙁 well she said she could tough it out so we kept going.. then my mom went below for a second to use the head… she enver made it that far.. she popped back into the cockpit saying that being below started to imeadiatly make her queasy to… then it went down hill till she was looking really grim…
I went out sailing on sea puppy today with Cary Huhr. The motor out and back in on the waterway was brutal. Against the tide both ways with the current running 2 knots. Then add in 4th of July traffic and crazys..
We actually ended up saving a jet skier that fell off his jet ski and was having problems getting back up on it or his girl friends jet ski. I saw him fall off and his jet ski was 20 yards away by the time he was even able to look away with the wind and current carrying it faster than he was able to follow. I throtled down just a knot or two and when it became obvious that he wasn’t going to be able to get on his girlfreinds jetski with her motored over and threw the ladder down and let him climb up on Sea Puppy.. Even though he had only been in the water for a couple minutes he was out of breath and we had to help him up the ladder.
I finished running the wires for the GPS sounder.. The GPS antenna wire from the transom took a hole in the transom and then one in the bulkhead at the back of the chart table to run.
The cable from the Depth Sounder transducer took three holes through the galley cabinates to run beside the battery cables. I ended up mounting the transduce inside the boat just ahead of the older thru hull sending units for the depth finder and knot meter.. I just took 2 part epoxy and glued it down.. it seems to be working fine. Gives a very clear bottom line. 🙂 I need to read the manual a couple more times though to learn how to set all the options and use them.
After getting all the electrical system put back together and the GPS sounder installed I cleaned Sea Puppy out and then went sailing 🙂 Hans, Neylla, and Lisi, han’s sister went out with me…
Just an afternoon sail off the coast 🙂
Neylla and Lisi
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I finally started a project that has been on my mind since before I even bought Sea Puppy. Moving the battery from starboard to port. The original design (actually the only design from the factory) for the Beneteau F235s has the engine, gas tank, Cockpit locker, holding tank, head, chart table and battery all on starboard.. This gives a normally laden F235 a pronounced list to starboard. When sailing on starboard tack this is like having another crew person hiked out but on port its just the opposite.. This creates a significant difference in speed between port and starboard tacks as well as a little bit of pointing difference.
I just ran into this problem. I am the first owner of the boat ever to use the holding tank… So tank is half full and I’m getting ready for the NC/SC Govenors cup regatta and think.. ah I will pump out that 100 lbs of weight on starboard.. It not only laughed at me but fell out rolling on the floor… and to this day still wont open..It is siezed shut permanently.. We only stopped trying to get it open when it started to look as if the boat was going to take damage. An easy temp solution is to undo the hose leading to the fitting from underneath and just pull it out of the hatch and pump out directly from it. or if your real brave open main inspection port in the tank and go for shock value… I will be getting new fitting soon and replacing old one.
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