Recent content by Chad and Sandy

For sale This boat was for sale last year by the same guy. He had dropped it down to $500 from $1000+and I was thinking about looking at it when some guy from Ohio won the bid. I'm guessing that he backed out when he saw the condition she was in.

E27 Jeff, I was wondering if you ever decided to take off and go exploring, would you use your E27 or would you get somethng bigger? Like you, I'm at that age where I regret not doing something like this when I was young but would like make up for lost time. Chad

You might be right but there are other boats with outboard rudders with more severe angles than the E27-29 and the transom could always be beefed up. I was just thinking that inspection and maintenance would be easier with an outboard rudder. It might have been easier for Morgan to fix his...

I was just wondering if it would be easier(?) ,or safer, to just hang a rudder off of the transom and do away with the through hull rudder post. Another benefit would be a tiller that wouldn't dominate the cockpit so much. I had to make a kick-up rudder for my E25 due to the shallow lake I...

Don't forget the shag rug in the cockpit. Instead of brown you could change it to avacado green...or burt orange...or... Chad

Yep, we sold Peregryn awhile back. I've told the new owner about this site and hope he'll sign up. Sandy and I will be out of sailing for while due to new duties involving parent care. There will be a time that we'll get back into sailing with a "retirement boat" Fair winds and full sails...

Good old boat Jeff, I just wish I had a "good old boat" (:>

Hey Sean, Thanks for all you have done for all of us who sail or want to sail an Ericson. The check is in the mail. Chad

Rub rail My rub rails were getting chauky and cracked so I cleaned them up and sanded them down. Then I painted them with about three coats of Pettit [sic] one part urethane IIRC. So far this has held up for about three years so far. There are still little grooves where the cracks were but...

Crips Sven, you're going to get the SPCA after us:egrin:. Chad

Library Everything by Tristan Jones, Frank Mulville, Reese Palley, and Jonathan Raban. And yes Captron, I'll need a much larger boat also :egrin: . Chad

Here is one for a blustry winters(ugh)night.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gr1RTuxNgg&feature=PlayList&p=0D58C146761908CF Fair winds. Chad

E 25 FWIW it takes two guys to get my hinged mast up ( Suribatchi style). I have Doug (a shorter mesomorphic type) nearest the mast and me ( 6'4" and shrinking) behind him. A third pearson, if you have one but not needed,, to attach the back stay. Fair winds, Chad

Bike ride I went into the film vault yesterday and found a short film showing Kim trying to teach Stevie how to ride a bike many, many years ago. Oddly enough, there was no cheap beer involved...just ineptitude :egrin: . Well, I did find some green organic material in with the film :egrin: ...

Surf I don't know how to say it in Spanish but I think the translation is " Pucker Harbor" :egrin: Fair Winds, Chad