Recent content by PNW Jeff

Photo showing where the pad eye came through the boom. Ignore the calipers. I wanted to capture the rivet dimension before I drilled it.

The boom is fine. The eye of the weldment came through the slot in the boom. This is the photo I have of the post break fitting before I drilled it out and a photo of the pad eye plate after removal.

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The rivets are still there. The bail tore off the stainless plate. No corrosion marks. Just failed in tension due to the shock load. Same thing happened to another olson34 two weeks ago at our club. We have 4 at Portland Yacht Club. The plate is inside the boom- the rivets only hold it from...

Anybody have a 130 or 135 job they’d like to sell? I’m in the Pacific Northwest- Portland area. My number two is a bit blown out at the top.

Yesterday while racing we jibed without sheeting in the main first- mistake. Gusts were in the low 20s and the pad eye riveted inside the boom to hold the main sheet block broke. I used a couple sail ties and made a bridle on the boom so we could keep sailing. I’m thinking of a dyneema boom...

I need to have an emergency steering system- not a rudder. A drogue on a bridle to the spinnaker pole is a common way to meet this and how the boat was rigged when it won Offshore in 1999. It's not pretty but it works.

I'll be doing PNW Offshore this year in my Olson 34. I need to have a replacement tiller available as part of the safety equipment for the race and I'll be using this opportunity to replace my existing tiller- which is straight, 43" long but angled UP. Wondering what tillers other folks have...

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Does anybody know with certainty what the ballast should be on the next to last Olson 34 built by Ericson? I'm addressing a very old PHRF rating and it's asking for Ballast. I found 3,500 lbs in Sailboatdata.com but wondering if there were any changes over the life of the O34 to balast. Thanks!

I used the link you provided- found the vendor and bought 20 YKK #5 zipper. With shipping it was under $8. Thanks!

The previous owner installed new electronics- a B&G Zeus chart plotter, AIS Transceiver, RayMarine auto pilot and the balance being Garmin instruments (3 displays). After replacing the wireless Garmin/Nexus wind instrument with a wired version I've got everything working with a couple...

I've got an Olson 34, built in 1990. A couple of the zipper pulls for the headliner are corroded/missing. I'd like to replace all of them with plastic pulls- ideally YKK. The zipper teeth are in great shape. I've searched Amazon and gone to fabric stores. I haven't found a source for plastic...

If you have a copper fuel line, even if you think it's good, consider replacing it. I have an Olson 34 with a Yanmar 3GM30F. I have been struggling with air ingestion issues since delivering the boat to Portland Oregon a couple months ago (410 NM journey). It was intermittent- but would...

Thank you! The water jet doesn't make me nervous anymore. I have plenty of water out the exhaust and siphon break hose. The Yanmar runs at 160F at 2800 rpm. I purchased the boat a couple weeks back and after several days motoring and sailing in Budd Inlet, I'll be taking her down the...