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Wow a 12v heat pump. How cool. I installed a Marine Air heat pump under the V berth. Had to move the water tank. I imagine something should fit in your big ol 35 with a little imagination.

I thought rutter was a Dutch term for a navigating device- a rudder. Not quite: A rutter is a mariner's handbook of written sailing directions. Before the advent of nautical charts, rutters were the primary store of geographic information for maritime navigation.

Is it any wonder that two pioneers, well, three, in the development of aircraft were bike mechanics to start with: Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers. Bikes, planes, boats and even rockets (a friend of mine was a bike mechanic, now years later is an engineer at NASA Langley). As another...

GOB was the last paper magazine I subscribed to. My, how things have changed. Sorry to see it go.

I had one built (out of SS) to the dimensions on the 3rd drawing- exactly like the old one which has never caused a problem, except rust out.

Copy. Thank you, Christian.

I want to put a piece of possibly plastic to place over the hatch. As you can see there is a 1/8" piece of some kind of plastic on it now. This has been on there for maybe 4 years but is not really UV proof and is degrading. Starboard seems to come in 1/4" minimum and is stiff. I'd like to use...

Welcome JamesTSR. You've got a nice looking boat there. I particularly like the sail cover color.

Bruce and I corresponded for a while, then when he didn't write back, I thought, oh, oh. It's good to see no number after the 1939-. He is an amazingly humble fellow, and I love the design of my boat.

When they squeak, I clean and lube.

Have you ever....?

Well done Bepi

I tried with 2 pumps of the built in switch variety and both times the float switch failed within one year. Back to the rule separate pump and external float switch.