The Cape Dory Board

All I did was read the silly FAQ... I didn't pick up the distinction between here and there. My bad. To whit: Are For-Sale and commercial posts allowed? For-sale and want-to-buy Cape Dory posts are welcome. Please include the boat's general location. Please do not make multiple posts until your orig...

The Gods only know where the first post went. No matter. Typhoon #1842 is for sale. We've had our third Wee Heathen just in June, and our lovely Typhoon is now officially too small. New standing rigging. Trailer included (unregistered). Sails restitched (and quite new). New jib bag for easy foresail...

A couple of thoughts. First of all, the answer to briefs or boxers is NEITHER. Real sailors wear mesh lined shorts for such long periods in between washings that they can stand on their own from accumulated grime, salt, sunscreen, and other bits of joie de vive. Or kilts. And in either case, there a...

Yup, it's the evil trees making the stains. I got a little staining on my boat too, when it was living proximal to a live oak and some pines. Now she's in the water and clean as a whistle. http://web.mac.com/alpine.island/iWeb/Jolnirisms/Valapics.html You all remember Reagan's Evil Trees speech, rig...

New name on transom, transom painted, rigged, floating, sailing. Life is beautiful.

http://web.mac.com/alpine.island/iWeb/J ... kjalf.html

I cleaned out the low part of my keel yesterday, coming to terms with the aftermath of a ruptured fuel tank that had vented all of its diesel into the bilge. It's been taking a while just to get all the ducks in a row. First I had to lift out the tank, which involved sawing it in half as it hung in ...

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I'm fairly new to this old boat business, so I was pleased that grinding it gave me the opportunity to really see the hull in extremely close detail. I would get to some spots on the hull where the gelcoat had gone all chalky, so I just kept grinding it down until there was nothing but sound gelcoat...

I just stripped my Typhoon down to gelcoat like you want to, but I did it the old fashioned way with a grinder. Here's a few before-after pictures: http://web.mac.com/alpine.island/iWeb/Jolnirisms/Valaskjalf.html I forgot to take lots of intermediate photos. Probably because I was in denial. The boa...

I'm looking forward to the rest of the projects, but those are all above the waterline so I just wanted to go sailing. I've borrowed a line from the Matrix: "You never really know someone until you fight them". Except I say "You never really know your boat until you grind off twenty-f...

I put the Valaskjalf in the water, and now we're having blizzards mixed with dust storms. Yeah, I wondered how that happened, too. Turns out there's full blown dust storms going on in the desert which is 4000' below Lake Arrowhead, and the huge clouds of desert ick are blowing up to the top of the S...

I'll put up some nicely detailed photos of shiny new rigging later today, but the big deal is posted here: http://web.mac.com/alpine.island/iWeb/Jolnirisms/Valaskjalf.html I'm an oiled teak kind of a guy, so I'll be oiling and painting some new non-skid, but for yesterday and today and for the rest ...

There's a line from one of the Matrix movies. "You cannot know someone until you fight them". Well, you cannot know your boat until (in my case) you sand away 25 years of bottom paint, all the way down to a blotchy applique of epoxy barrier coat and bare gelcoat - plus a few just-added epo...

Register the hull, get whatever documents are needed. Send me a matching set of numbers to your boat. Meet me in the Atlantic in international waters. I will trade you my completely restored Typhoon and you will give me yours. And then you will sail home. I'll probably get home alive. That's my prob...

Just seeing that lake in its fiercest red-in-tooth-and-claw fury makes me weak at the knees. I can't imagine being in THAT in my cute little sailing tea cup. What a quaint thought!