That's a great picture/perspective.
I recognize that the wide availability of late 70s and early to mid 80s boats of various flavors makes entry into sailing at 23' to 38' fairly easily attainable to someone who wants to try it. Then you get to decide how much money you want to or have to pour...
Great picture. I dropped by CB and stripped and repainted my E25 in the spring of 2022, and I was looking through my pics to see what I had of my bilge and CB trunk. I don't have a better picture than that.
I was going to post, I am having a hard time thinking about where the CB trunk would...
Since you are open to that range of Ericsons, if you haven't looked already, there are several threads on the forum comparing E32s to E35s to E38s. It would be worth your time to look at those and consider if there are any features found in one and not the other that are essential to you (for...
I have a 135% genoa on a Harken MKIII furler on my E25. I sail on a lake in Western PA. I like that size for a genoa and don't see a need for a larger genoa. I put a few turns on the genoa when single handed in stronger winds to make things a bit more manageable if I am not racing. A prior...
Do you have hand rails inside the salon as well, or just on the cabin top? I just have them on my cabin top, and there are stainless machine screws installed in the handrail (with heads covered by teak plugs-or I suppose they could just be studs-I never had them out). The threads go through...
I emailed the company, and eventually communicated with Dan, the operations director. I think he called me to take my cc info to finalize the order and emailed me an invoice. Their online order system does not work to ship to the US. Still very happy with the locks. I'm not in a salt...
Having measurements from a few boats with similar sliding hatch designs would help confirm whether tapered installation of the sliding rails was intentional from the factory, happenstance, or perhaps done to accommodate my specific original hatch that won't be going back on my boat (thus I can...
Jeff, that's a good question. I meant the rails are not parallel to each other. The fore end of the rails are 37.25" outside to outside, and the aft end spread to 37.75" outside to outside. I'm not so concerned about their angle down - I will cut that same angle in the hatch side rails.
I am building a new companionway sliding hatch for my E25. It will be painted rather than all teak to give me some room for error on joinery, with perhaps a varnished teak pull on top. I made a mock side rail to confirm my measurements and angles and ability to use my table saw to cut the...
I've never been in one, but I would think the addition 1.25' of extra beam on a E28+ and few extra feet long at the water line would be a substantial upgrade in room over a E25+ or 26-2 without really being that much bigger of a boat to handle with 2. Even just to move past another person or...
I was quoted approximately $300 USD to replace my 5/32 forestay on my Ericson 25 masthead rig this spring. I have a Harken MK III furler, and the rigger is going to do a swaged fitting on 1 end and send me a Hayn Hi Mod fitting for me to install after I fish the new stay through the furler. My...
My biggest project is repairing and varnishing the salvaged teak companionway hatch I obtained last spring from another E25 that was unfortunately damaged beyond any sensible repair. Replacing my forestay in my Harken III furler, which will complete my standing rigging replacement project I...
I found it interesting to get 5 or 6 2x2x2 foam samples in the mail and then try to extrapolate the pinch between my fingers to a rear end and a back and a shoulder.