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I always used to just tie a length of line to the bow, hand the bitter end to my son and toss him overboard. He'd swim under and free it up! After the first few times, if he saw the know meter stop, he'd just look over at me and shrug saying, "I guess it's time to get the rope, huh?" I'd n...

Here I was with a focus on rotten decks and mastering toerail and rub rail replacement and the really tough work was in the cabin! I did walk into this restoration with the mindset that, like life, there's some ups and there's some downs. When the PO said he had some other things he thought went to ...

The picture shown is in the cockpit, port locker. The dark areas at the bottom left of the picture are locations where the gel coat chipped away from the underlying layer exposing the darker sub-surface. If I take the edge of a knife to any of the cracks that can be seen in the picture, you can easi...

After about two solid days of pressure washing and cleaning, I'm ready to move on to something more exciting. Although it's amazing what a good cleaning does for the overall appearance. I think I saw almost every inch inside of the cabin (at least everywhere that I could twist my 6'4" frame to ...

Well, the short of it all is that #1503 has a new home. The tires all held air, but were visibly dry rotted. I packed all the bearings with grease and hoped for the best. Thankfully I had only about ten miles to get her home. I made my final offer based on my inspection of the sails that I'd not yet...

Ah think the cold makes summa ya'll talk funny.

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All the drop boards are there, not pretty, but they're there at least. About all I can do on the trailer is visual. It has buddy bearings, but who knows if they're greased. I guess that's all a part of taking on a project like this. There's going to be good and bad in the process. The rudder seems s...

This may sound a bit odd to some, but I've always loved to varnish. But bear in mind my last sailboat of eleven years was a Hallberg P-28 with an African mahogany, brightwork hull, so you have to love it. Living in Florida, the tropical sun can be a killer, and the best varnish I found, that took th...

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I didn't see any evidence of blisters on the hull. In fact, below the water line is the best looking part of the boat. I'm tempted to leave the bottom alone, but there's a long unknown history of what's happened to the boat in the last 30 years. After a thorough cleaning, I'll make that choice. The ...

I'm a new member to this board and I should first say that the level of experience and knowledge of the members here is amazing. I've read the last 50 or so pages of this forum and researched many others concerning various repairs and tactics, and I find it very refreshing to see the openness of tho...

I may need to get OJ to help.

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