Boat Parts

[NQ6U]

$200 worth, shipped from the UK. Soon to be back on the high seas again, I hope.

http://i.imgur.com/DFGopcX.png

[KD8TUT]

Nice!

[NA4BH]

Nothing like an intermediate clutch for a sailboat's propulsion system. Roughly calculating, you should add about 47 more horsepower, but you need to fine tune your trim-tabs to get maximum speed. Probably about -3 degrees. Hoist the Genoa and tell them to kiss your ass.

[VE7DCW]

Precision Parts for the Bismarck? ......... I see :mrgreen:

[NQ6U]

That thing on the left is stainless steel and weighs like 20 lbs. Fully 1/4 of the price was shipping charges.

[NA4BH]

Came from the UK? You'll have to boat on the left side now.

[suddenseer]

The thought of going out in the open sea on any sized boat scares the hell out of me!

[NQ6U]

The thought of going out in the open sea on any sized boat scares the hell out of me!

Down here in Southern California, the open seas are only slightly rougher than your average mill pond during the summer months. When the wind really gets blowing, I stick to SD Bay—if I go out at all—but that’s more due to a lack of confidence in my own sailing skills than any worries about the boat itself. Cal 29s like the one I own are tough little boats. They have successfully weathered severe storms and completed trans-Pacific crossings, so the local ocean shouldn’t be more than it can handle.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiBEK_RXdE

[NA4BH]

Sounds like they have a rod knocking.

[NQ6U]

Probably a loose halyard (line used for raising a sail) banging against the mast. I've been awakened late at night and forced to go out on deck in the rain to fix that myself.

[K7SGJ]

I still say you need to sail that bad boy up the Salt River, hang a left (port), when you reach the Gila River, then, hang a right (starboard) to New River wash, hit the fog horn, and I'll have the gate open for you. By the way, you should have asked. I picked up three of those things at a yard sale, and ended up selling them on Ebay to some bloke in England.

[WX7P]

Tie that scurvy dog to yardarm!

[n2ize]

Down here in Southern California, the open seas are only slightly rougher than your average mill pond during the summer months. When the wind really gets blowing, I stick to SD Bay—if I go out at all—but that’s more due to a lack of confidence in my own sailing skills than any worries about the boat itself. Cal 29s like the one I own are tough little boats. They have successfully weathered severe storms and completed trans-Pacific crossings, so the local ocean shouldn’t be more than it can handle.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHiBEK_RXdE

Nice... I love rough water.

[NQ6U]

Tie that scurvy dog to yardarm!

Arrrrr! My boat be fore-and-aft rigged, matey. She ain't got no yardarms.

[NQ6U]

Nice... I love rough water.

Went out on the ocean on a friend's Gulfstar 39 on Monday, about an eight-hour round trip. Sailed out and rounded an oil tanker anchored about five miles offshore. Them motherfuckers is WIDE. Seas were typical for this time of year, not more than two feet or so. Fun day.

[K7SGJ]

Went out on the ocean on a friend's Gulfstar 39 on Monday, about an eight-hour round trip. Sailed out and rounded an oil tanker anchored about five miles offshore. Them motherfuckers is WIDE. Seas were typical for this time of year, not more than two feet or so. Fun day.

When you get out in the main drag, do you see much aqua life? Seems like the sharks are a bit more active than years past. Do much fishing?

[NQ6U]

When you get out in the main drag, do you see much aqua life? Seems like the sharks are a bit more active than years past. Do much fishing?

I do fish here in the harbor and off the breakwater, catch and release.

Didn’t see any wildlife at all out in the ocean but, man, is there ever a lot of big ship traffic out there. As well as at least four huge oil tankers, there were numerous warships—two CVs, an Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer like the one that was involved in the collision off of Japan and one of these things:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/US_Navy_050801-N-7676W-080_The_Littoral_Surface_Craft-Experimental_LSC%28X%29%2C_developed_by_the_Office _of_Naval_Research_and_christened_Sea_Fighter_%28F SF_1%29%2C_arrives_at_her_new_homeport_of_San_Dieg o_Calif.jpg/300px-thumbnail.jpg

An FSF-1 Seafighter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Fighter_(FSF-1)), one of the Navy’s new experimental class of littoral combat ships.

[KG4CGC]

Man, Carl. Awesome.

[NQ6U]

Well, it took some doing—three hours with a cutoff wheel in a pneumatic die grinder, a modified gear puller, the help of a scuba diver, two days of near immobility from a sprung back, a lot of penetrating oil and even more sweating and swearing but the coupling is finally in place and my boat ready to sail again! WOOT!

http://i.imgur.com/JmyFQQK.jpg

[KG4CGC]

Man, Carl. Awesome.