Recent content by thevans

We sold our E38 and kept the Gennaker for our next boat. The new boat has a Spinnaker, so decided to sell the sail. North sails, comes with chutescoop, lines, sail bag and ATN tacker (to head sail).Ready to use. Bought new from North sails cost $2900. The sail is crisp, in near perfect...

Ericson 38 1982 in Ex. condition post deleted.

What are the measurements on the prop, size and pitch? What are the measurements on the prop, size and pitch?

Taken off a 38 Ft Ericson. When we purchased the prop we gave the specs to the manufacture off our opriginal survey. Specifically we had a HBW-100 trnasmission with a 2.00 ratio. We tried everything to tune this prop in over a season to our boat. Basically we couldn't get to work, the pitch...

I have a roller furling mainsail that I took off my boat and replaced it with a full batten Main. Condition is good, a little zig zag stitching needed long the leech but an easy fix. Measurements. Foot 12'8" Luff 41'6" Leech 41.2" if interested send me a private message. Located in Los angeles...

Cdi furling on main When we bought our 38' Ericson it came with a CDI furling main. It was rigged back to the cockpit and never really worked that well. It's was really hard to roll in. We ended up cutting it off and installing a full batten mainsail. We fly with this main, and have it rigged...

CDI furler- I have a sail in great condition used on this We had a very old Cdi furler on our 38 ericson when we bought it 4 years ago. We changed it out for a full battened main. We still have the main sail which we are happy to sell. Great condition, no issues. let me know if interested.

Cdi We had an antiquated CDI Main furling on our 38ft '82 Ericson when we bought it. We took it off and replaced it with a full batten Main. The CDI furling worked well enough on the boat we just wanted a bigger sail. In saying that we cut off the Old CDI set up but still have a perfectly good...

Fuel Tank issues end update 1 year later- air in pick tube was the main issue I realized I never finished with what I ended up doing and how I solved the issue. Bottom line and three mechanics later all scratching their heads as to how to proceed. Thank goodness for forums and boaties writing...

Update on Water in Tank 38ft Ericson Thanks again for all the fantastic input. Re. the tank we drained the water out of it and got about a gallon of fuel, went and drained another five gallons of diesel from tank just to make sure. The last three gallons drained showed no signs of water in it...

Thanks for all the great tips I am going to drain the fuel myself, and place some 5" holes for access points. I just found out the baffles run top to bottom in tank so the round holes seem like the best option. I'll get the rounds cut at a local CNC machinery shop, as per Marks drawings (thanks...

38ft Ericson with a lot of water in the fuel should I polish Or replace the tank? Our engine was repeatedly stalling after having fuel filters and oil change/100 hr check and so I had the mechanic come down and take a look at the engine. He removed the fuel tank sender for fuel gauge and...

I figured it out. Wheel pilot ST 4000+ The key was to place the drive ring into the back of the wheel next, install the rubber chain and finally the bearings into the area between the inner wheel and drive ring. The key was this install ball bearings in first then carefully click in the bearing...

We hit heavy sea's a month ago, somehow the wheel pilot got engaged and the wheel was turned resulting in the drive ring cracking and breaking, ball bearings popped out everywhere. I have gone through the owners handbook and can't figure out how to get the bearings into their cage and then into...

Which marina? We'll be keeping her at Marina del Rey. Boat name "Buoys of OZ"-