Recent content by tenders

The big question to guide your response to this: how is the bulkhead into which the chainplate is fastened? This design, which certainly isn't specific to Ericsons, is notorious for letting water seep down the chainplate, waterlogging and rotting the core around it, and rotting the bulkhead...

Wow. I’ve been a GOB subscriber since 1999, I think, nearly - but not quite - its beginning. I’d assumed it had reached some kind of equilibrium as the traditional publishing industry collapsed in so many other places around it. I was traveling last week when the issue came out, and while I did...

I‘m curious about the hole pattern in the bow pulpit stanchion bases. Could you post some photos of that? It’s the same part as on the 32. My pulpit got mangled by an errant ice truck while in dry dock. I have a replacement from a 27, but its mounting holes are equally spaced around the...

Could you post some photos and measurements? Many of these parts fit more than one model/length of boat. For example, the bow pulpit on the 27 was also used on the 32. I’m particularly curious what the hole pattern looks like on the stanchions of your pulpit, and the length/width of the cushions.

I love sewing, and took a sail repair course two years ago in Newport, RI, and enjoyed it immensely. Sewing was just a part of the curriculum. The most important thing I learned: hire a sailmaker to repair my sails.

My actual advice is: either wait until the tank is leaking, then replace it with one that has a sensor in it, or decide to replace a still-functioning tank at a convenient time of your choosing, under the theory that it is on borrowed time anyway, and then replace it with one with a sensor in it.

My 32-2 is gas-powered, but it had a painted steel tank (until I replaced it, the second time, and now use stainless), and the wire that connects to the tank near the fuel fill is a grounding wire. Steel tanks, for me, lasted 22 years, sample size: 2. They conveniently rust from pinholes in the...

Despite the Brooklyn Craigslist entry, I don’t think that boat is located anywhere near NYC. “Golden Valley” is not a there, here.

Option four: go back to an old-school stuffing box after 25 years of low-grade annoyance with the shaft seal design, and one incidence of high-grade annoyance which was the tipping point. The stuffing box fails gradually, and can be serviced indefinitely without removing the shaft until the...

Where are we going to find 20 gallons of asbestos these days?

For some reason I was under the impression that the original design included lead shot poured around those lead ingots before the final encapsulation at the top of the keel. Could that shot have fallen or been taken out after your incident? Or perhaps my impression was incorrect. My...

Sent you a message about the bow rail.

Great photos - 4 generations is really impressive! Love those “lil Mustang” PFDs and that little handle in the back. But they grow out of them so fast… Another long-term Ericson owner (since November 1991) - wife and daughter #1 (in Lil Mustang PFD), June 2001, and last month. Daughter (now 23)...

Wow. Sailed on three coasts, north west and east, and never heard “Cleevis.” Sounds like Clevis might be Clutthead’s friend?

The Moyer pump is a better design than the original pump and yes, will immediately address any pump related issues. It’s pretty expensive, though. Depending on how much money you want to throw speculatively at the problem, you can also replace the compression shoe in the original pump (sold by...