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Located in Alameda, CA, (SF Bay area). Hull number 190, 1972, lots of renovations, lots of upgrades, ready to go for this season. New Beta Marine BD722 Diesel 20 HP, 1 inch shaft, PSS Shaftseal, Single Lever Morse Control. only 64 hours on engine, new Martec two blade prop, professionally...

This is intriguing, what was the form made out of? Are you using the vacume bag as a way to get the ply to take the shape?

I had to replace the companion way hatch on my e29 a few years ago, plywood delamination. I ended up having on custom made, there was a guy in the marina who was a pretty good wood worker. He steamed some teak vaneered marine plywood to get the correct bend, and mated it to a wood frame, that...

I've got an E29, std rig. My belief is the Boom size is the same on both. I'll measure mine over the weekend and get you the dimensions.

Not sure if this would be considered a good approach, but here is what I did prior to getting an autopilot. I hooked a short line on a moveable cleat I had on the genoa track. That line was then looped around the tiller. The line was set to resist the pull caused by the prop wash. The...

Very very interesting. I used to be an avid windsurfer, 80+ days per year on the SF bay, CA coast and Hawaii. The fins on all my boards were made of G10, and I never had one break. The fin would actually tear out of the board before it would break. This sounds like a fantastic idea, I'm...

I had a little bit of looseness in my strut, e29. This was discovered during the repower. On my boat, the strut was attached with 2 bolts that were accessed under the battery tray. It wasn't too big a job to remove the tray, pop the strut off, do a bit of glassing, rebedd and rebolt...

I've got an E29 which is a slightly longer version of the E27. Terrific boat, very user friendly sailing and maintenance. Another thing you may consider in your evaluation is the quality of information available on this board. It is a tremendous resource in vetting maintenance and sailing...

I'm looking at replacing my headsail halyards, pretty old and ratty. The jib halyard is a wire/rope splice, I'm assuming the mast head block for it is grooved to handle the wire. I'd like to replace with pure rope, Stay-set X or Spectra. Do you think it would be ok to run that stuff across...

Couple of thoughts. You can get a product that I think is called a spinnaker gun. This is a plastic tube that you pull the spinnaker though, periodically sliding a rubber band off the tub and around the spinnaker. This will hold the chute in place while you hoist and get things ready...

I have an Ericson 29 and for a while considered adding a wheel, in the end I chose not to for the following reasons. 1. Loss of cockpit space, this was noted in a previous reply. 2. Better steering feel with a tiller than a wheel. 3. Simpler system, one less thing to break. 4. It's...

I considered adding a lower lifeline on my e29, but when doing some quick measuring realized that the lower lifeline would interfere with the winch handle for the Primary winches. Didn't see an easy way to address that. Has anyone added second lines and if so, how did you address the clearance...

A couple of years ago I did a repower. Had the installation done at the Berkeley Marine Center in Berkeley Ca. My recollection is that the yard said they had a tool that allowed them to press out the cutlas bearing with out having to remove the shaft. Might be worth calling a few yards and...

I have an ericson 29, to my eye's it seems to be almost a direct clone of the 27, just stretched out a bit. Do the racing guidelines for the 27 apply to the 29 as well. Also, does the 29 have the same relative competitiveness of the 27.