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    Another Ericson

    Here's Old Idler, E35-3 #235 of St Petersburg listening & watching. We were in a race this last Sunday with 2 other Ericsons participating.
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    35-3 mast circumference

    Mast Circumference The circumference of Idler's mast is 22 & 1/4 inches at shoulder height in the cabin. I don't think the taper begins until above the second spreaders. Bill Morse, E35-3 #235 (1986) IDLER, St Petersburg Fl
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    Near to make offer on E35-3. Some help please

    Beware of cabintop leaks on the 35-3 Greetings Friends; I've had a bad experience with leaks thru the floor of the dorade/winch handle box/dorade unit just forward of the mast. The floor of that box set was one layer of improperly saturated woven roving. Water made it through to the...
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    Dry rot

    Ditto on surveyors. But they are required by the insurance companies. What I hoped for my post was that everyone with an 80's Ericson with the dorade/winch handle box might double check the floor of that box. And potential owners have something to look at carefully. Here's hoping the...
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    Dry rot

    Water leaks via dry rot under dorade/winch box in my E35-3 I've had a similar problem in my new-to-me 1986 E-35-3 #235, now named IDLER. Water leaks from the mast/ dorade area were apparent when I purchased the boat last fall. An earlier attempt by a PO left a pool of epoxy in...
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