Recent content by Loren Beach

The level of corrosion is, to me, a sign that the prior owner(s) did not perform regular preventative maintenance . Engine compartment tasks can often be "out of sight and out of mind". Wire brushing and paint for some of those surfaces needs doing. And, finding out where the salt water is...

If you do not have a "wide" enough area for the base of a conventional cam cleat, there exists a vertical version. I once put a smaller Lance Cleat on a boom for an outhaul. Handy design, for some applications...

When we bought our used boat, moored/ignored three years in Alameda, SF Bay, the surveyor carved a little piece of copper off of one blade. It looked like the usual bronze factory-default OEM two blade fixed prop. He showed me little pink piece of copper and said to make the seller replace the...

Nice work! I really appreciate your time spent in templating and making mockups and patterns. (I am presently in the final stage of installing new hull ceilings in the aft cabin, and 80% of the project time goes toward this prep work !)

A-Men. There were several important reasons for carrying out our ten month full re-fit at a shop operated by a friend. Besides his abilities and skills, there was his on-site supply of fastenings and "consumables" like abrasives. And, a lot of electrical and pneumatic tools. Even then, there...

That ranks right up there with: "Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli" :) (A bit of Godfather-ish thread drift...)

Perhaps a "contrarian" view: From another (unaddressed...) standpoint, one could question whether multihulls will *ever* achieve much real market penetration. The reason is finding slips that will accommodate them. For instance we have a cat hull in our club now, but it's small at about 32 feet...

"Relationships" can be, um, adversely affected by the misapplication of a metal utensil to a non-stick coated pan...! :esad:

Figure about making 5.+ Kt average. About 16 hours, perhaps. That's hoping for about 6.5 to 6.8 Kt maximum motoring speed in smooth water, which it may not be. Edit: my math was wrong initially. Dave was correct. What are the prevailing winds like for this trip direction?

I am curious as to what yard quoted 11K for that work. As for putting an engine "right", a few years ago I replaced our original M25XP with a new Betamarine25 for about 15K total, parts and outside labor. The engine/trans/panel package was just under 10K in a crate.

https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/niagara-31/ When shopping for a move-up boat from our Niagara 26, in 1993, we really wanted an N-31. Low production run model & never many for sale on the used market, tho, and none for sale in our area at the time. It would have been nice to keep the well known...

It might be more logical to label this conversation "marketing driven changes" rather than "evolution." That would also avoid categorizing changes by usefulness rather than style. I have found it most useful to compare sailboat design parameters to the "envelope" explanation of airplane...

Just visited our boat and brought back a picture of our sheet attachment point on the boom. This may help clarify things a bit.

If you put that picture up beside a Bayliner, the similarities are eerie. ;)

Agree that the bolt end is hazardous. In an emergency where the sea has be kept out of the fuel or drinking water for several days it would be pretty handy to have the option, tho,