Recent content by bgary

Mayyyyyybe. I have a 2m handheld on the boat, I may bounce off a few repeaters in the area and see who's listening. I doubt I'll do much more - my "base" is in my office at home and it would be non-trivial to set it up on the boat. But stranger things have happened, you never know. Bruce (K7BGG)

Well, yes, there's definitely a bit of an implied IQ-test: if you really like the look of a scow-bowed POGO (or whatever), this may not be the place for you. There may also be something more. Scientists have mapped a phenomenon they call the "reminiscence bump" - the tendency to favorably...

Seems VERY high. Couple hundred bucks at the nearest boatyard to have the mast unstepped and put on sawhorses. From there, you can order new shrouds and stays to match the old and do most (if not all) of the install work yourself. And then a couple hundred bucks to have the yard put the rig...

I once worked as a booth-monkey (answering questions, handing out brochures) at a boat show. Was struck by the patterns - you could infer whether someone knew what they were about by the questions they asked. If they asked about stowage space and wet-lockers and access to mechanical spaces...

I saw this in another forum - comparing the shape of a 1967 Swan-42 and the more "modern" Club Swan 42.... (I'd take the 1967 version any day)

Added to my "watch list" :P

I personally hate having a traveler on the bridge deck. It seems like it is always in the way. That aside, I'm also usually single-handing, and on my boat I made my mainsheet into a simple 6:1 purchase ending at a block with a cam-cleat on the existing traveler. I can play the main from the...

I'm not a naval architect, but the short answer is... probably not. You're talking about adding maybe 500-600 lbs of chain, tankage and water, equivalent to 2-3 people worth of weight. Might make the boat a bit sluggish, depending on where the weight is positioned, but I don't think it would...

A while back at work, I got a call from HR... (mildly) chastizing me for violating workplace "inclusivity" rules. Someone - a guy, as it turns out - complained about my use of the phrase "thanks, guys" when wrapping up a meeting. Felt I was passive-aggressively misgendering people. Or...

Ditto. I know my immediate neighbors at the marina, and we have each others' phone numbers and keep an eye on each others' boats. But there are ~50 other boats within a 50-yard radius of mine, and if I see a problem (unfurled headsail, broken dockline, noisy halyard), I'll jump aboard, fix it...

From a post on the Newport Beach Facebook page, someone came across a vintage sketch of the NB pavilion... How fitting that it features "one of ours"

The material could be "spar-tite" - a poured in semi-flexible replacement for mast-wedges https://www.fisheriessupply.com/spartite As far as the leaking, I've had good success with a belt-and-suspenders approach: I used a "universal" mast boot kit (kind of a pain to glue the edges together for...

I was in Newport on Saturday afternoon, it was a sporty day! Saw a number of boats poke their bows the end of the channel and decide to turn around and say in the bay...

In semi-related news, I saw a notice to mariners indicating that the bell-buoy marking the entrance channel in Newport Beach is being removed and replaced with a "virtual bouy" - an AIS marker transmitted from somewhere else. Of course, that's only useful if you have AIS....

Apropos of nothing... .I'd be really interested in a copy of the receipt, if it's from the original factory order/commissioning. My boat is 8 hulls before yours, so it'd probably be a pretty good reference for how my boat was delivered. Bruce