Good evening.
I am new to your site and a new Ericson 29 owner. I bought our boat on 1-27-2010. I knew it needed a lot of work, but I am really close to pissing off the wife with the money and time. The boat has a number of sails, all in good condition. Other than the motor and halyards, it is a very tight vessel. No bilge water at all, no blisters, although we do need to have her hauled out in a year or so for bottom paint.
I have the Atomic 4 out and being rebuilt. I will let you know how that turns out, costs and anything else related to the Atomic 4 that is worth telling.
My current problem is the cable from the binicle to the transmision of the Atomic 4. It seems to be frozen. The throttle cable works fine, but the sift lever on the binicle will not move. If I take her out with my partner, one of us will need to be below in order to shift the tranny from reverse to forward and back again as we leave and return to our slip. Single handing will be out of the question if we use the engine.
Any help in how to access the cable would be appreciated. Can we access it if I take the 4 bolts out that hold the binicle to the deck in the cockpit? Does the compass need to come off?
I have been sailing for over 35 years, but mostly on Hobies. My first 16 was sail number 4275 and my 18 was hull number 20, sail number 133. I sailed the crap out of them and then got too old to do the knee thing. I have rented up to 48' boats of various makes and lengths over the past few years.
This has been a project for the past three weeks. My hull number is 465. We have all but one halyard replaced (that one will be done next week).
We have replaced the electric bilge pump, rebuilt the manual bildge pump, reworked most of the wiring, both drains in the cockpit have been replaced, all the canvas is replaced, both batteries have been replaced also. Lots of elbow grease and time. We need to rebuild our main hatch cover, sand and varnish all the other wood on board, but we are looking forward to that.Then we are going to tackle the head and water lines.
The motor should be in the end of next week. The main was up today for the first time in over 3 years. We are trying for a first voyage for us in 2 - 3 weeks.
I have enjoyed reading a lot of the other postings and find the site very informatinve.
Thanks in advance for your help.
My boat partner and I are in San Diego. We look forward to meeting other site members in our area.
Omrodo
I am new to your site and a new Ericson 29 owner. I bought our boat on 1-27-2010. I knew it needed a lot of work, but I am really close to pissing off the wife with the money and time. The boat has a number of sails, all in good condition. Other than the motor and halyards, it is a very tight vessel. No bilge water at all, no blisters, although we do need to have her hauled out in a year or so for bottom paint.
I have the Atomic 4 out and being rebuilt. I will let you know how that turns out, costs and anything else related to the Atomic 4 that is worth telling.
My current problem is the cable from the binicle to the transmision of the Atomic 4. It seems to be frozen. The throttle cable works fine, but the sift lever on the binicle will not move. If I take her out with my partner, one of us will need to be below in order to shift the tranny from reverse to forward and back again as we leave and return to our slip. Single handing will be out of the question if we use the engine.
Any help in how to access the cable would be appreciated. Can we access it if I take the 4 bolts out that hold the binicle to the deck in the cockpit? Does the compass need to come off?
I have been sailing for over 35 years, but mostly on Hobies. My first 16 was sail number 4275 and my 18 was hull number 20, sail number 133. I sailed the crap out of them and then got too old to do the knee thing. I have rented up to 48' boats of various makes and lengths over the past few years.
This has been a project for the past three weeks. My hull number is 465. We have all but one halyard replaced (that one will be done next week).
We have replaced the electric bilge pump, rebuilt the manual bildge pump, reworked most of the wiring, both drains in the cockpit have been replaced, all the canvas is replaced, both batteries have been replaced also. Lots of elbow grease and time. We need to rebuild our main hatch cover, sand and varnish all the other wood on board, but we are looking forward to that.Then we are going to tackle the head and water lines.
The motor should be in the end of next week. The main was up today for the first time in over 3 years. We are trying for a first voyage for us in 2 - 3 weeks.
I have enjoyed reading a lot of the other postings and find the site very informatinve.
Thanks in advance for your help.
My boat partner and I are in San Diego. We look forward to meeting other site members in our area.
Omrodo
