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August 2011 Blog Posts (3)

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Sailing SoNice Home

So I brought SoNice from her previous home down in Alamitos Bay in Long Beach up to Marina Del Rey.



I have loved the look of these beautiful boats for years, and I have loved this girl up close and personal for the last few months as we've gotten her ready to make the trip up here, both mechanically and cosmetically: but delays have kept me from being able to take her out on anything more than one very brief trial just to test out the engine.



So the first sea trial was a 12…

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Added by Eddie Offermann on August 29, 2011 at 11:53pm — 3 Comments

TRANSOM BULWARK AND DECK BEAM STRUCTURE

       Cut out the first layer of 3/4" (I actually used two 3/8 pieces because I am building in place now and they are easy to bend, until the epoxy drys!). The bulwark on the transom is a little different than the rest of the boat in that the first layer extends below the deck and nestles in the transom knee notch (approximately 14" wide in center, down to 13 1/2 at outsides). Next comes the deck beam. The narrow curved piece on the transom is the old one in a position to mark for the new…

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Added by bob mitchell on August 4, 2011 at 10:00pm — No Comments

The Masts are down! Napa Valley Marina - Napa California.  I made it up the Napa river without running aground riding a 5 knot flood tide.  The masts, booms, and bowsprit are now sitting in the yard.…

The Masts are down! Napa Valley Marina - Napa California.  I made it up the Napa river without running aground riding a 5 knot flood tide.  The masts, booms, and bowsprit are now sitting in the yard.  Removing them was easy enough since they had a manbasket to remove the triadic stay.  It is a simple matter of removing all the turnbuckles and plucking them from the boat with a crane.

 

From what I can see the main mast front board has a seem where it has begun to separate all…

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Added by Hans Petrie on August 2, 2011 at 12:16pm — 21 Comments

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