seth

:confused:Hi, I just pulled my transom hung rudder to paint it. This rudder seems very heavy. I drilled a few holes in it to see if it leaked any water it might have absorbed over the last 30 years but the holes I drilled were all dry and the drilled out material appeared to be wood. I called...

A friend found this and sent it to me. At first I thought from the description that it was a e37, but it isn't it is the underbody of an Ericson 39, with what looks a lot like the 37 deck and house. The stripe is Ericson, and the underbody is so Ericson 39, to be either a great lift of lines...

Why is there a difference in the amount of rake designed into the mast/rig tune of various Ericsons. I came across some Ericson factory specs that showed there should be no mast rake on the Ericson 30+, but a rake of several inches as measured by the halyard hanging down on the Ericson 32. I...

In the course of breaking in the boat last week, I inadvertantly destroyed the manual pump in the head. We sailed out of SF bay where I decided to pump a LOT of water into to the holding tank to flush it out before I hauled here to seattle (yes, we had pumped out at the dock before leaving)...