Love this Web page. I have a 1979 typhoon #1641 docked in Seabrook Tx. she is a beautiful boat but is bare inside (no cushions, stove, cabinets, etc) and find it difficult to overnight on her the way she is. I've been looking at the older notes and see that many of you have modified your typhoons for crusing. Back when I lived by the marina we enjoyed daysailing her and never really worried about staying the night, but we now live over an hour from the marina and find an increasing need to stay the night/weekend. Please let me know what you changed, added. My current plans are to construct a weather proof canopy that will enclose the cockpit from the back stay to the front of the cabin and be suported by the boom. Then add boards that can lay across the cockpit seats and make cushions to fit the cockpit thereby increasing the spleeping room, but what about water and cooking, and storage and least I forget(and my otherhalf reminds me that she is not sleeping anyplace that doesn't include a bathroom one more time) what about a head? Any help would be most graciously accepted
Thanks,
Brent
bmusolf@usa.net
typhoon cruising modifications
Moderator: Jim Walsh
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Rick Parish
Re: typhoon cruising modifications
Is your Typhoon a Weekender or Daysailor model? The weekender has teak cockpit seats, the Daysailor has molded glass cockpit seats with quarter births under that are accessable from the cabin.
parish6@ibm.net
Brent Musolf wrote: Love this Web page. I have a 1979 typhoon #1641 docked in Seabrook Tx. she is a beautiful boat but is bare inside (no cushions, stove, cabinets, etc) and find it difficult to overnight on her the way she is. I've been looking at the older notes and see that many of you have modified your typhoons for crusing. Back when I lived by the marina we enjoyed daysailing her and never really worried about staying the night, but we now live over an hour from the marina and find an increasing need to stay the night/weekend. Please let me know what you changed, added. My current plans are to construct a weather proof canopy that will enclose the cockpit from the back stay to the front of the cabin and be suported by the boom. Then add boards that can lay across the cockpit seats and make cushions to fit the cockpit thereby increasing the spleeping room, but what about water and cooking, and storage and least I forget(and my otherhalf reminds me that she is not sleeping anyplace that doesn't include a bathroom one more time) what about a head? Any help would be most graciously accepted
Thanks,
Brent
parish6@ibm.net
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paul
Re: typhoon cruising modifications
Brent,
My brother bought a lovely Typhoon a few years ago. Since then he has installed a compression post, jib down haul, porta pottie head, Jib reef points, and, after many hours of work, rebedded the deck plates and jib tracks and made modifications to the trailer. He has a wonderful alcohol stove from another Alberg boat that we placed on a gimballed pin fastened to the compression post. It works wonderfully for boiling water for hot tea in the late Minnesota sailing season! It is mounted facing aft so you can keep an eye on it from the cockpit. No storm has dumped it yet but it does come near the post when pitching. We store all our provisions under the quarterberths and use sturdy jugs for water stowed in one of the berths themselves. He added a vertical hatch behind the tiller to access the aft section without modifying the aft deck. Though it is a small opening, it works well. We have stretched some canvas over the boom after sliding it up the track of the mast and that works for an awning. It is immensely livable in a fairly spartan manner.
Good luck, Paul
nyem0001@tc.umn.edu
My brother bought a lovely Typhoon a few years ago. Since then he has installed a compression post, jib down haul, porta pottie head, Jib reef points, and, after many hours of work, rebedded the deck plates and jib tracks and made modifications to the trailer. He has a wonderful alcohol stove from another Alberg boat that we placed on a gimballed pin fastened to the compression post. It works wonderfully for boiling water for hot tea in the late Minnesota sailing season! It is mounted facing aft so you can keep an eye on it from the cockpit. No storm has dumped it yet but it does come near the post when pitching. We store all our provisions under the quarterberths and use sturdy jugs for water stowed in one of the berths themselves. He added a vertical hatch behind the tiller to access the aft section without modifying the aft deck. Though it is a small opening, it works well. We have stretched some canvas over the boom after sliding it up the track of the mast and that works for an awning. It is immensely livable in a fairly spartan manner.
Good luck, Paul
nyem0001@tc.umn.edu