Recent content by Steve

Under sink stern drain Agree with in-water winter storage paradox. The purpose of the below waterline drain is to provide an additional and different pathway of cockpit drainage. The stern drains are subject to flow back in a following sea or in a hard over heel, thus sea-cocks are...

SS screws I think it's a design issue when they use ss screws with painted aluminum to hold the internal flapper on. Over time, the small amount of corrosion set up by the SS and aluminum reaction is enough to bubble the paint and push the flapper off the seat, it doesn't take much to loose...

Congrats Nice.. very nice! Any pointers for your fellow 35-3's, like back-stay ##, what did you use for backstay pressure on your various points of sail? Did you stay with the same size head sail... did you get any whales to push you?.. ha ha Steve e35-3 #159

Tanks We have the older L shape holding tank, and will be replacing.. hopefully this winter. So Corey, you say there is lead where my batteries are? Do you have the same water tank set up, (1)tank to the starboard and (1)under the v-berth? Our boats are very close. Tim, you then...

Battery 35-3 This is our set-up. I think some 35-3's had a water tank in addition to the holding tank on the port side, ours came with the holding tank only on the port allowing for extra space. Our water is under the v-berth and starboard settee. There is five house and one start battery...

Makes sense to me! Thanks.. Like I said, the subject has always mystified me, since there is the real world common sense approach and then there is the master mechanic half empty view.

I've been mystified on various positions regarding running our diesels to charge a battery bank while at rest, for say several hours. I can understand both sides of the argument, however, is the load of an alternator on a diesel enough to off-set what would be considered a harmful no-load...

Just a hunch A 00.02 cent opinion, perhaps that is the original deck color, the rest has bleached and oxidized.

Diesel charging Agree with Tim, your likely getting all you can out of what you have to work with. Either increase bank size, increase insulation in the box, or add supplemental ice or dry-ice and turn the fridge down to get more cycling. However my question comes with battery charging by...

Agree Agree with the lazy part, or perhaps it's more of a practical matter. Short handed sailing with a spin or flasher can be rather testing, especially if the breeze freshens with all that material in the air. .. ya ho! Kinda reminds me of shrink wrapping a mast if your not careful.

Flasher We use a UK flasher as well, it can be a pain, but when conditions are right... it's a beautiful thing.... now where do you want to stuff it when we're done.. again, Admiral? Steve e35-3

Curiosities (1) Why no substantial mid cleats, we keep in a slip and worry that someday we may pull our small track mounted cleats off using as springs? (2) Why the off-set mast sole plate over the grid, seems rather weak here? (3) I have a stb water tank mid ships and a forward water...

OEM - Standards of The time My boat didn't have any tinned wire anywhere OEM. One postive note, you can always tell what a PO did for modifications. Also found a lot of auto type wire snap combiners, these must have been popular at one time before falling out of favor in the marine market...

Inexpensive Solution For what it is worth... we picked up from WalMart. only a few dollars , a package of baby door latches that keep babys and small kids from opening or climbing up drawers etc... They are plastic with a couple small screws, they actual work. I would prefer a nice mortared...

Tim... Agree with Tim on the wiring. Mine is exactly the same, watch for any potential chafe issues running into the pulpit leg especially if it was pulled and re-bedded in the past, they can get pinched. You may want to rewire from the light into the boat, not sure if your having problems...