Recent content by vabobadams

:0305_alar I have a galley out of a 1969 e23 mk1 (sink, icebox, drawers) all in one unit if someone could use it pay the shipping and its yours, sold the boat, and new owner didn't want it, it's north of Dallas, Texas:0305_alar Bob Adams 903-821-0152

4 year old that loves downwind running (big colorful kite) getting used to close haul Bob

Yes it ownes me, I was trying to restore it and ran into this, was wondering if it was so early of a model that it was more of an experiment or just norm for this year, the reason for concern was I wanted to mount halyard winches on the cabin top next to the companionway but was not solid...

yes it has no core except on the foredeck and the area at the mast i wil try to post some pictures of the boat

This weekend got the courage up to cut the headliner out on my 1969 MK1 23 I found something very disturbing, the cabin top has no core to it:eek: , so on that, I started looking at the other parts of the the boat that would normally have a core to them ie the cockpit floor and seats and the...

Alan you also might try mauriprosailing.com, they custom make sails. He made a racing spin for our race boat unbeliveable performance out of it. tell him Bob (foredeck on GodSpeed) sent you Bob

Is there anyone out there from the north texas area on here, that sails on lake texoma:confused:

I have been watching this from the start, my hope to is that they can hold them together. The Farrs seem to have some major design problems, when guys start talking about banging and cracking sounds out of the bulkheads thats alittle scary.

Hey Ray I used Bix Tuff Job, you can get it at Home Dept, 1 gal completly stripped the hull on my 23'. the good thing is it neutralizes with soap and water (burns the skin if touches)

thanks for all your help, never done fiberglass repair, I am a Trim Carpenter by trade, shouldn't be real difficult to do, read some on it before I started this project didn't scare me off her yet. She has the most graceful lines for a boat built in that era that I have seen, and what sailing...

hey Mark I have sailed her 3 times, then pulled her out of the water, she's landlocked on Lake Texoma on the Texas Oklahoma border needed bottom redone no paint in years and pitting in gelcoat has occured, entire boat was painted with bad poly paint job that was not preped properly,inside and...

it is weak, flexes and makes a cracking sound, the boat was neglected before I rescued it.

hey David it does have a fiberglass box/ beam spaning the bulkheads as in the picture when you look thru the holes where the chainplates go thru to the bulkhead it appears to be wood sandwiched between the top and bottom, sounds solid at the mast, but the entire cabin top sounds hollow like...

hey jeff thanks for re: it loooks like mine has never had a compression post only bulkheads between the vberth and galley area and what appears to be a beam that runs the width of the boat also does the area between the deck and the cabin roof have some kind of a foam or core build up mine...

I'm restoring a 1968 e23 and need some tech advise, inside the cabin and under the mast there seems to be a crack or buckle in the glass,I have noticed on most boats there is a pole that supports the mast, on this boat there is not one, how is it constructed and do I have a major problem...