Recent content by Duncan

Thank you for the help. I will have a mechanic give it a thorough check asap. I can get 3400 rpm and I cruise at 2600 to 2800 in flat water at 5.6 to 5.8 knots. (I have a bracket for my 4 hp Yamaha outboard on the stern and can hit 4.1 knots in flat calm -- the hull is easily pushed.) At...

Presently have a 20 year old 23 hp Kubota/Universal that is getting tired. I'm down to 4.5 knots in a two foot chop and 3.5 knots in worse. I am thinking of replacing with a Yanmar 3YM30G (29 hp) but wondering about a 3JH4SE (40 hp). I have a three blade 15 inch MaxProp with new one inch shaft...

Maxprop: propeller and performance on an E34 '90 with a fairly dirty bottom using a 15 inch folding maxprop and the M25XP I get 5 knots at 2100 rpm, 6.2 at 2600 and it slows down with adverse wind and sea. sounds the same.

Furling Dots On The Jib: E34'90 Because of this thread when we were out for the last two weeks I was very conscious of the little dots I had my sailmaker put on the foot of my jib. Lately it has been frequently blowing twenty to thirty knots so I have been reefing the 90% jib. On the last...

gale sails Yes, thanks Seth. I will now view my little marks with a different eye. If I was to do it again I would put three on the foot of the sail about a foot and a half apart. Not as absolutes but just as reference points. It would help with that question:how far am I reefed? When the...

Furling A Jib Hi Seth, thanks for that. You are saying exactly what my sailmaker said. However, I persisted and he put the marks on the sail. The marks are one inch diameter black fabric dots so weight is not an item, but what I like is that when my head is down yanking in the reef line and...

90 percent jib I have an E34 1990 and my sailmaker talked me into a 90% headsail. It is very versatile and very easy to tack singlehanded without grinding. I got the sailmaker to put in two black dots on the foot: first one for half reefed and second for full reefed. I have beat into 45...

mold for scoop He did not use a mold. He wrapped a large piece of arborite (later discarded) around the stern to get the interior shape of the scoop and then began fairing in the hull to below the winches. Vinylester was used underneath, then balsa core, then vinylester on top. The whole...

Scoop added to an E34 (1990) I had the work done by Paul McCartney who works out of Westport Marina in Sidney, B.C. Canada. The price was $2300 CDN plus (but he said I got away cheap and would charge more like $4000 in future). It took about a month and I had it done while the gelcoat was...

Leak in the forpeak I have the same leak in my E34 (1990) and it would seem to be coming from the starboard side stanchion. The PO ran lots of silicone around but to no avail. This summer I will get the anchor pan out and rebed it and the stanchions. Thanks for the heads up.

peeling blisters I have just had mine done on our E34 (1990) in Victoria, B.C. and the cost was $7500 CDN. It was peeled down through the top layer of roving on the forward three quarters and down two layers on the stern quarter. It definitely needed it and I was glad that I had it done now...

When I bought our E34 (1990) it had two headsails: 130% and a 145%. I furled them when it got above 25 knots of wind, but the shape was so bad that I usually ended up motorsailing with just the reefed main and no jib. A local sailmaker made me a 90% jib and a cruising spinnaker (gennaker). I...

Last time I came out I put three of those bulky zincs on the shaft (I know, overkill), replaced the cutlass bearing and installed new a R&D Flexible Coupling and a PSS Shaft Seal. The vibration was really bad. The dripless bearing (PSS)was shaking so much that it was a shower down there...

hull water retention My E34 is on the hard getting the blisters peeled and I have spent the last month watching the water run out of the fibreglass. After the gelcoat was peeled the hull just dripped -- day after day! My blisters were under the gelcoat and in the tight roving just below the...

Does anyone have any thoughts about adding a scoop to an E 34? How about filling in the IOR rule-beater bustle and adding an eighteen inch dinghy dock? A friend did it to a Peterson design of similar proportions with positive results.