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- Apr 20th, '13, 18:48
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Restoring CD10
- Replies: 2
- Views: 143
Restoring CD10
Stopped by to check out progress on Cape Dory 10 restoration today - hull nicely sanded, variety of hardware holes filled and patched,the funky rub and interior gunnel rails removed, new replacement stock on hand ready for installation. However, it has become clear, the full gelcoat must come off, c...
- Mar 22nd, '13, 06:39
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Estimate for Restoration of CD10 Exterior Gelcoat?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 526
Re: Estimate for Restoration of CD10 Exterior Gelcoat?
Thank you everyone for the helpful replies. I have connected with a pro who will be completing the repairs/restoration. I'll let you know how that goes, just for sake of experience. I hope to have her prettily bobbing behind the CD31 soon, sailing amongst the yachts in the anchorage as the sun sets....
- Mar 17th, '13, 08:34
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Re-packing Rudder Post Stuff Box
- Replies: 4
- Views: 321
Re-packing Rudder Post Stuff Box
2nd question today, hey its almost spring, I'm thinking about boats even though a fire is burning on the hearth and its in the thirties outside. Can I back off and re-pack the rudderpost stuff box on my CD31 while in the water? I can't decide if the top of the rudder tube is above the water line, I ...
- Mar 17th, '13, 08:26
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Estimate for Restoration of CD10 Exterior Gelcoat?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 526
Estimate for Restoration of CD10 Exterior Gelcoat?
Its time to bring the family dingy back to yacht standard, she's towed behind 4 family yachts since my brother and it sold our McCulloch engined gokart in 1968......Anyway, it's totally chalked-out, has some serious patches of crazing and two drilled perforations on the side. It is otherwise not bas...
- Mar 12th, '12, 18:54
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Simple Spring Stuffing Box Question
- Replies: 1
- Views: 171
Simple Spring Stuffing Box Question
Its time to take an appropriate fraction of a turn on the engine stuffing box packing nut, it is leaking too much when under power, underway. Here's the question(s); The lock nut is the furthest aft, behind the packing nut - right? To loosen the lock nut I turn it clockwise - right? Then turn the pa...
- Aug 7th, '11, 19:11
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: varnish woes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 855
Scratch and Patch
You can scratch and patch (scrape, sand) patches of standard varnish and get a fairly good match if the wood has not darkened. Even then, some careful use of Te-ka A/B can lighten the wood. Also after repair, try running a seam of clear caulk where you know water has lifted the varnish. I have kept ...
- Jul 6th, '11, 21:26
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Cool Tool
- Replies: 0
- Views: 355
Cool Tool
I don't post that much these days on this board but I started a complete exterior teak re-finish on my CD 31 this week and had the opportunity to use the coolest tool I have ever used for this type of work. Its a Fein MultiMaster FMM 250Q oscillating sander, scraper, grinder, saw etc. The slightly b...
- Nov 16th, '10, 14:35
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Music Aboard - A Slight Return
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1176
Music Aboard - A Slight Return
I have reviewed the posts from 2007 on music equipment aboard - helpful, suggesting an iPod is a must, XM radio nice to have, buying a high priced cd/am/fm radio "marine" deck is not cost effective. I have the ipod and a separate portable XM radio, so the choice come down to the best sound...
- Jul 28th, '10, 01:01
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Saving Sailing
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2821
Decline in All Boating
Lots of good observations in this long thread. I'd add or confirm a few - yes, tough economic times have reduced all boating; and sailing, except for those communities where deeply rooted through tradition and proximity, is not cool among young people. Crew is in but sailing somehow just does not se...
- May 23rd, '10, 16:53
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Wuersch Ship's Clock
- Replies: 1
- Views: 390
Wuersch Ship's Clock
The previous owner of my Cape Dory (1984) installed a Wuersch brass chiming ship's clock. Its nothing fancy, battery op quartz movement, its losing time even after a battery change. I very much like taking off my wrist watch and keeping time aboard by the chimes, I often don't hear the chiming on th...
- Mar 7th, '10, 18:48
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: New owners
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1023
Interior Cushions Post
I did a detailed post on using JSI for new interior cushion fabrication a year or two ago. Search the board using wsonntag new interior cushions to find it. It may be helpful has fabric sources etc.
Bill Sonntag
Bill Sonntag
- Feb 20th, '10, 09:07
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Americas Cup!
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3502
Well Said
Zeida: Thanks for the initial post and links - and thanks for the reasoned defense of this unique event, technology marches on regardless. We can choose what moves us from the past and still enjoy the present and future. Car analogy - I drive 1960's 1970's design era Alfa Romeos, love the simple des...
- Jan 23rd, '10, 22:08
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Anyone sailing off Seattle in the Sound tomorrow 01-24?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 343
Anyone sailing off Seattle in the Sound tomorrow 01-24?
Flying into SeaTac at 11:30 am (GMT -8) 01-24 must hit hotel, glad to crew Sunday pm, can't pack foulies.
Bill Sonntag
reply at sonntag.william@epa.gov
Bill Sonntag
reply at sonntag.william@epa.gov
- Dec 4th, '09, 21:21
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Winter nautical reading
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4287
What An Erudite Crew - Now for Some Trashy Winter Reading
What a great pleasure to read all these learned posts - I just hit the local library website to check a few out! Here is some delightful trashy reading full of abandoned center cockpit fishing boats - with bullet holes and blood stains, missing persons, mysterious damsels. The prose, not all that it...
- Nov 29th, '09, 18:55
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Winter nautical reading
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4287
Rapacious Editing
I suppose you could lose some of the "colour" or perhaps - even the "flavour".