Recent content by TodBookless

My 1973 E27 has a Homestrand, 2 burner, alcohol stove. When I pump it up, alcohol leaks out around the fittings under the burners and fills the cups under the burner. I have googled around but I have not been able to find replacement parts, and it appears that the stove is no longer made, at...

Well, the shaft on my boat now spins pretty freely on the coupler. There are holes in the shaft and the coupler, but they don't line up. They are about half lined up and I don't know how there was ever a bolt in there. Maybe the bolt broke because they were jammed together? The bolt that I found...

I was out sailing on Sunday, and when I dropped the sails and started up the motor to come in to the doc, there was an unhealthy banging, followed by the sound of my motor spinning very freely - but we were not moving. After docking under sail (a whole other story...), I dug into the problem and...

I am in the process of buying a 1973 E27. I had the survey done last week and learned that the deck aft of the anchor locker has some delamination happening, and that the balsa core seems to be rotting. I am interested to know if other people have seen this, and if so, what they have been...