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Just a brief update. We got back saturday evening about 11:30 or 12:00 after an uneventfull trip. Best trips are always uneventfull. I got out this morning put the swing wing rigging back on, extended the ama’s and scrubbed the road grime off of Gooney Bird. I am compiling a list of jobs needed to be done on her so that a material list can be generated and work can get started. I will post a list here later when I’ve had a few days to think about what and in what order I’m going to do stuff. Well I am bored and back to write some more. We are on I 95 now about 75 miles from jacksonville and still traveling… Steve and me have been talking about names for the Trikini 23. According to Capt. Len this boat doesn’t have a name and if it did in the past he doesn’t know about it. Steve came up with what I think will be her name. The “Goonie Bird” she looks sitting on her trailer so awkward and out of her element, with her wings tucked up beside her that she reminds us of an albatros that isn’t flying. With their wings spread they are gorgeous gracefull birds but on land they are awkward and ungainly. I think that with her wings spread out on the water she will turn into a gracefull flyer 🙂 We are on the downside of our trip to pickup the trikini 23 from Capt. Len down in Cape Coral near Fort Myers, Fl. We are currently passing Lakeland florida on I4 as we tow her back home. It’s been (so far, knock on wood) a much easier trip than I thought it would be. I had asked my friend Steve to go with me to pick up the boat and we took his Isuzu Rodeo down with us. He is a driving fool 🙂 so far I haven’t driven at all. 🙂 I can’t say that I mind, it’s been years since I loved to drive long distance. I have always been fascinated by multihull sail boats. Well it looks like I will be getting the opportunity to own one. I am a member of the yahoo groups multihull forum It is a boat he has been restoring for the last few years. (if I understand right he is the designer and original builder of the boat and ended up getting it from the second owner a few years ago. you can see the story of this in the Deja Vue trikini post by Capt. Len) It had been basically abandoned and was sitting in an orchard. I can understand his not wanting to leave it there. Circumstances now are such that he doesn’t have time to finish restoring her and because of damage to his house in Cape Coral, Fl. from one of the recent hurricanes, he needs to have her moved from where she is to begin repairs of his house. www.trikini.com We have been having a lot of rain and that is stopping glass. By the time it dries out in the morning the next wave is coming in. We have put up the mast The main problem was the existing stays are all too short. The mast step tower is about 12″ higher and the fore and aft position is different so nothing matched. The shrouds were fairly straight forward with toggles and 12″ lengths of cable added ( this is average some were shorter a couple longer.) We worked on the Turnbuckles and freed up all but 3. The 2 lower shrouds and the upper shroud. These are being replaced. Can’t get the same brand and model so. www.trikini.com Well this is sort of backward, the rainy seas on starts on June 1st and I am busy for the last week cutting the cabin off the Trikini 23. Never did like that cabin. Was just too boxy So basically we are back to the original cuddy cabin from 1978 but located 18″ forward as a result of moving the forward crossarms. Next up is to extend the cockpit in front of the mast stand and fit the bulkheads to the cuddy. Hopefully we will have a week of dry weather. Started this on the 24th and the weather thru the first is hot and dry.. The rainy season is over and fall is here. Got down to 64 for the first time since last April and no rain for over 2 weeks. Work on the main hull was continuing and the Port side was finished up and painted , the trailer moved over and the hull rotated the other way so we could work on the Starboard side. The same procedure was used, and when done the hull was leveled and recentered on the trailer note the boot line for the bottom was also done. This is the end of summer , here just another warm and sunny day. Thanks to Hurricane Isabel we have had a dry month Work on the main hull was all taping seams and sealing up cracks and holes. On the main hull the pads for the OR swing wings are on and the Eye bolts have been moved forward as required by the new geometry. The OR aft bulkhead has been moved and the CA pins are all installed. The deck was cut into sections and is being rearranged and installed. This is Labor Day weekend, the end of season up North, here just another rainy day. August came out the rainest on record for this area, so work has been hit and miss First on the project list was getting the cabin dried in, Most of the parts used were cutouts and ends from both the 23 and other projects. Most of the panels are either Foam or Balsa core composite. A design change was also mmade. It was decided to move the OR’s forward about 17″ and have the rear CA pivot pin on the transom. It was also decided to leave the rear cabin in place. This was not really to have the extra berth but for more dry storage. This only leaves a 28″ seating area but for singlehanding no problem www.trikini.com After several attempts to find a proxy to restore the vessel failed I bite the bullet and in July started work on doing it myself. One problem was the loss of 2 computer HDD in 95 hours . We had spent 2 weeks converting the paper drawings of the 23 to CAD which was a real project and planned on saturday morning to copy to a CD. Then when we booted up Saturday the HDD was dead. Had a new Maxtor and spent the weekend rebuilding the set up and on Monday it failed. While both WD and Maxtor stood behind and replaced the drives it created a real and a stress factor that took a while to untangle. www.trikini.com Well was a long hot summer and the 23 has mainly sat We did resolve the title issue and the vessel and trailer are now registered and the vessel titled. It was considered to sell or give it to someone to restore but no takers. It Was considered scrapping it and selling parts. The owner of Lee’s 6.47 was interested in spare parts for his restoration. Took a couple of trips in the 13 and these old joints just didn’t fold up for a 13 foot boat. BUT still wanted a sailboat in my quiver ; so took another look at the 23 and at the boats I have designed and owned. www.trikini.com History Lesson When we did the Trikini 6.47 performance was not a telling issue. With 4 berths, a diesel inboard and 6 ft of headroom it was equal to a 30′ monohull but not a fast boat We had a stripped out prototype that we sailed that was faster, but with the memory of the TRIKINI D it just was slow. When we used the Main hull as part of the Catfisher 34, we had a set of OR. CA and mast and rigging. We designed a more performance oriented vessel the Trikini 7.92 ; and did a really good mold for it, built one hull and were working on the deck plug when the business sort of collapsed and the project died. The mold was transported to Hernando County and developments there lead to it’s destruction in 1986. |
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