Recent content by C. Shamis

Okay! So, this story has a happy ending! Frank at Garhauer sent me the new tube and a new (additional) spring. Quick assembly work and reattached and! It works! The very end of the boom is now held about 6-9” above dead level when there’s no tension on the vang purchase. Which is great...

We pulled into Safe Harbor Sandusky. Which has spaces for about 500 boats. Were assigned a slip right on the very end of “E” dock. There’s only one other boat in the Marina with a black mast, and it too turned out to be another Ericson 33’ RH. And it’s right next door to us. Hull #12 and...

Long story short: I need a new sender. Maybe new wires and new gauge too… but the sender (that’s the name of the float apparatus) is definitely bad. Most marine units work on variable resistance. 240ohms to 33ohm. When I isolated mine and put it on my meter it read open. Meaning… there...

So I did order those Electric Fly Swatter mentioned by @bsangs. Also stocked up on a few rolls of flypaper to keep in the chart table. Next time we won’t be completely defenseless.

May flies are gross, but those damn black biting flies are a scourge.

Erie to Sandusky: Twenty-Six Hours to Ohio The lines came aboard at 2323 on Thursday night. Three of us stood aboard the Ericson in Wolverine Marina: Christopher and Susan Shamis, and Tim Stone, Coast Guard captain who had long since earned the right to be skeptical of both weather forecasts...

Update: So I sent Garhauer the measurements on Monday. They were great to work with. They sorted the problem and are sending a new outer tube and a new spring. It cost about $200 and the price of the vang is $799 so I can’t really say I’m too upset about this. They shipped it yesterday, so...

The boat came to me with a topping lift presumably from factory. Previous owner installed the rigid vang but could get enough lift so he left the topping lift connected.

Picking up where we left off, since I bought the boat from sf1332 in September '25. The RV20-1-SL as you can see is attached to the factory boom bracket. Nothing wrong with that, but the RV isn't sized correctly according to Garhauer. It needs a longer tube, and a strong spring, or... it...

Assuming the toe rail is solid fiberglass, (which I'd guess it was)... I'd drill my pilot holes, lay a stripe of butyl tape under the track and screw it down and never look back. But... I think the challenge isn't mounting; it would be in finding a track that could follow the curvature of the...

I second using a car/cleat on a track if you can. Being able to slide them around is stupid useful. And... I've moved them to have two on one side on occasion. Mine has the track mounted right on top the toe rail. You can see it here on the port side...

Just more happy snaps of an E33RH.