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- Jan 18th, '11, 13:45
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Bending Bronze
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3640
My hacksaw secret weapon is a Remington-grit-edge blade - basically a rod covered with chips of tungsten carbide - cuts darn near anything - not as fast a a regular blade that will cut the metal in question, but a lot faster than a toothed blade that dulls in use when working something like stainles...
- Jan 10th, '11, 13:57
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Lazarette Storage
- Replies: 16
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- Dec 5th, '10, 00:04
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: CD10 Repairs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 420
I don't know anything about liners, but as far as I know from the CD14, the drain holes take standard lever-expansion plugs, which pretty much any boat store should stock. You mention the main drain hole in the bottom of the hull - just two more like the plug for that (at least, on the CD14 I have, ...
- Sep 2nd, '10, 23:04
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Morning Java: It's not for amateurs
- Replies: 60
- Views: 9304
Re: Use a mini-Melita
bring it in a real glass thermos, not one of those stainless thermoses. ...because you enjoy the taste of broken glass? I've been very happy with my Stanley for 30 years, a bunch of ski races (gatechecking was what I bought it for in the first place - 3-4 hours of standing on the cold mountain) and...
- Aug 10th, '10, 08:44
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Heat Shrink Tubing Technique?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2561
Having just heat-shrunk my well fittings, I used a hot air gun. In the portable/no power line, I have a Portasol (I think Weller bought them out) flameless (catalytic) butane soldering iron, and the exhaust heat from that makes a nice, no-flame, source of heat for heat shrinking if AC is not availab...
- Jul 27th, '10, 21:12
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Question on Cape Dory 14 Flotation and Rigging
- Replies: 3
- Views: 319
Based on what I've been able to find out here over the few months since mine came home: The seat holes (and the hole in the front of the centerboard case, and the hole in the bottom of the boat) should all have plugs in place when afloat. There was no foam as originally built (at least on the age I ...
- Jul 8th, '10, 16:29
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: CD-10 - Transom Repair - Any advise?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2783
- Jun 28th, '10, 16:06
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: CD 14 Gaff size
- Replies: 6
- Views: 891
- Jun 27th, '10, 18:07
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: CD 14 Gaff size
- Replies: 6
- Views: 891
Ron, I'll measure mine tomorrow or the next day. Is the basic size of the sail right? I wonder if they put the reenforcement about where the halyard attaches to the gaff? Don't know that it would help anything, but it seems like about the right spot. The old literature would have to have two diagram...
- Jun 11th, '10, 14:31
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: "this is getting tiresome"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 515
Some things there's no getting around it. Some things, what's really tiresome is that you could have done it better 46 years (or whatever) ago and spared yourself the pain now. Or as the pithy saying goes: There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over. You can replace time...
- Jun 5th, '10, 20:30
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Water system replacement with PEX - anyone done it?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 444
SS hose clamps
I've been using PEX in a lubberly application and see no appeal to the crimp connections .vs. a pair of good stainless steel hose clamps over a standard barb. Mostly looks like a scam to sell people a $75-100 crimper where a screwdriver or nutdriver they already own would work as well and be reversi...
- May 29th, '10, 10:59
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Cape Dory Haiku
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1813
Perhaps by 2011...
On rusted trailer
Crufty fiberglass hull waits
Amid trees new wood
Crufty fiberglass hull waits
Amid trees new wood
- May 21st, '10, 09:18
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: Wall Street Journal Article re: Dark N Stormy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1493
Re: With All Due Respect
the most popular drink in serious racing circles is Mt. Gay Rum. But there is Mt. Gay and Mt. Gay - specifically, Eclipse, which is terrible and easy to find anywhere, and Barbados Sugar Cane, which is a whole 'nother bottle of rum. And pretty much the only rum I'll drink these days, though I have ...
- May 18th, '10, 10:48
- Forum: Buy/Sell CD Boats & Gear
- Topic: WANTED: OARS FOR CD14
- Replies: 5
- Views: 696
Re: WANTED: OARS FOR CD14
Are you sure? - The brochure for the CD10 & 14 (available from the CDSOA site) indicates 7-1/2 feet for the rear position and 7 feet for the front position of a CD14. If you are actually (as one might suspect from your handle) talking about a HC14, that boat is 2 feet wider and 3 times heavier t...
- May 12th, '10, 08:09
- Forum: Cape Dory Sailboats
- Topic: DELETED
- Replies: 3
- Views: 556
Well, you can buy them (ouch, says my sensitive wallet, but if you want the original rig, there it is): http://www.rigrite.com/Spars/Spartan_Spars/S-1_spar_system.html You can also roll your own in various ways: http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/04/s/articles/gunter/index.cfm http://www.duckworksmaga...