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I have been on the computer getting together photos for the broker.  Sadly after 20 years - 5 in rebuild and 15 sailing and constantly upgrading I am serious about selling Western Way.  She is in excellent shape and has been a fantastic cruising platform for my wife and I but we are getting to the age where I need to downsize.   I do plan to launch this May for the last season unless she sells.  We are going over to the dark side and I plan to get a trawler type yacht probably about 30 feet…

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I will bring along a cutoff grinder in case the hex wrenches fail. Given the condition of the damper plate I will probably end up needing to replace that also. Bob tells me that they are only about a boat buck. It looks like the fly wheel could use a little sand blasting also.…

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     In March Deb and I took a trip up the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake to Lewes, a very cool old town on the Delaware Bay, where we caught the ferry across the Delaware Bay to Cape May, New Jersy. At that point we weren't far from the home ground of Captain Clyde Phillips and the Dorchester Shipyard. Clyde, of course, worked at the Dorchester Shipyard building that most famous and loved (or cursed?) of all boats, the Newporter 40 (if you want more info there are articles by and about…

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Contents:

Introduction

Newporter Masts Postmortum Analysis

Underneath the Main Cabin Floor: Main Mast Step, Rotten Framing with Rusty Bolts, Keelson and

keel bolts, inside views of chainplates.

Framing Bolt Anaysis and proposed seat of the pants Testing

Mast scarfing jig



INTRODUCTION



The reason I am switching to a blog is that I have so much energy and I am so involved in my boat that I feel out of sync, movin fast. Plus I really enjoy… Continue

I have been working on the roster of Newporters for the last few months (in between sailing, traveling, and work - no more work, I retired. Any way could all of you send info on your boats or any boats you know about, afloat or gon to Davy Jones Locker. Here is what I have put in the roster for myu boat.

8. MISTRI, Gerald Muffley and Jakki Andrews, P. O. Box 801, Fontana, CA 92334. 909 561 4245 Gmuf48@aol.com Ex ROUGH DRAFT, Former owners Jim and…

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        While rebuilding the apron and upper layers of deadwood at the aft end of the boat I had the opportunity to disassemble the propeller/shaft system. Captain Clyde answered numerous questions I had, so he deserves credit beyond just the specific quotes of his that are included. The first two photos show the shaft coupling which connects to the transmission coupling, and next the stuffing box (aka. packing gland) with the heavy, but flexible, hose making it a "flexible stuffing box" (as…

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Thanks to Clyde  for a post that really got my wheels to spin....  on a search for prop shaft generator I think I hit pay dirt on 

" cruisers forum"   see this link …

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Hi Everybody........Thank you for inviting me into your community.....My name is Charles Thompson and I am the proud Canadian owner of  # 14   a 1956 Newporter..".Rubaiyat "and live on Saltspring Island...one of the Canadian Gulf Islands and a great stop-over for the Alaska run up the inside passage.  I have had my boat for a few years now,purchasing it in California and bringing it north. I found her on the internet,went south to look at her and  I was immiediatly   struck by her apparent…

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Hello fellow newporters! I have just become the proud owner of "Aquila". It is a 1955 Newporter hull #1. Sadly the previous owner passed away of cancer during mid rebuild. He left me with a great hull and rigging to work with. I have the interior to rebuild and I am looking forward to the journey! I'm glad to be part of this community and look forward to corresponding with you all.

It's been some time since we've posted here and I have to admit that we shamelessly abandoned our Newporter to go live like landlubbers for the better part of a year, looking after a pretty nice house for some friends.  Of course, we intended to use the time to do all of the really dirty work that needed doing on Viajador, but somehow, the weather was never quite right when we had the time, etc., etc.

Just to bring you all up to date on our boat woes, the last trip we made ended up…

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For the past three years, I've done a sail out to Santa Barbara Island from Marina Del Rey, CA.



For folks not used to sailing in the area, Santa Barbara Island is nowhere near Santa Barbara. SBI is roughly 50 miles off the cost, roughly southwest of Marina Del Rey. It is a largely undeveloped rock, part of the Channel Islands archipelago, with sparse succulents, a large population of nesting seabirds, and one of the largest sea lion rookeries in California.

Most…

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We were given these photos by a friend who has twice crossed paths with this Newporter. Check out the pics--there are some interesting modifications. Love the cockpit!