Newporter 40 Together

a beautiful boat should sail forever.

I just could not stand having a black hole on my boat, so I took a chance to correct it. The fuel in the tanks had been sitting for 10 years, and the tank had never been cleaned - however you do that without access holes. The good news is that once the access holes are in cleaning the tank becomes trivial. The bad news is because there are two baffle walls there are three compartments, and each compartment requires an access plate. The materials for my 1/4" aluminum access plates with 1/8" buno rubber gaskets cost about $30 to $40 dollars per access plate assembly. The last one I made took about an hour to build, and an hour to install, and about 1/2 hour to clean each compartment. But beware, although the individual operations are easy, if your mind wanders and you lose track of plate orientations or order of operations, etc. you will be doing it over. As always, this is not a recommendation, just information, right or wrong, on what I did. Also note that while I am confident it will work it has not been tested with a full tank of diesel.

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THE ROSTER

Muf, our Keeper of the Roster, has updated it.  But he still needs information on boats out there that he doesn't have, like new owners, old owners, where any of the boats are.  We don't post the roster on the web site, it is only sent to owners.  Please send him anything you might have, or call him at:      

gmuf48@aol.com   

909 561 4245

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Captain Clyde's Newporter  sites:

newporters.blogspot.com

and  

newporter.ning.com

The Ning site has been given a reprieve.   I have  transferred my Ning site to the blogspot site and will leave it there. I am keeping my Ning site open as a home for my photos and drawings.

Many of my photos there do not relate to Newporters, but a search through my collection may prove useful for your studies.

My drawings are not accurate in many respects as a result of the PAINT program used to draw them, There is no accurate scale and at best they are only useful to indicate some specific detail.  Some are inaccurate because of my poor memory.  Use them to help you think, not as a detailed presentation of the subject matter.

If any of you want to start a web site I suggest you remember what has happened to both my Ning site and this site (which is a Ning site) and remember that my Blogspot site is free and Blogspot's owner (Google) has promised to keep it that way.

 

Clyde's email:

camgphil@msn.com 

Put 'Newporter' on Subject Line.  Email is the best way to contact me.  I do not regularly look at this site or its messaging system.  Email will get to me post-haste. 

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