Recent content by oldfauser

I think it's great the pass them on to be used instead of just scraped like so many old electronics.... When we sold ours three years ago, we were happy to have them go to good use! Art

we actually sold our old Datamarine instruments to DMI Marine Inc. for parts to be used for current users. We actually purchased parts from them before replacing the instruments after the depth gauge failed... http://www.dmimarine.com/service.html Art

the anchor locker hatch (lid) is getting soft on our 32-3. links/suggestions on stiffening it?

Wow… conditions were “lumpy”.. I was watching our spar go through more than one pretzel gyrations; we finished Monday night… sorry to hear what happened

if you get a chance, stop by Azaria!

this will be my first experience with three rating choices... so it will be interesting! I'll come looking for you Thursday during the day :egrin:

I'll be racing as well in Cruising 1 aboard Azaria, an Oceanis 45. Hope to meet up with you on Thursday! We're doing our drill on Wednesday on our sail down from Kenosha :egrin:. As for which way to go.... we have a total of one Chicago Mac between our crew of 6... should be interesting, but...

on my to do list this spring was to measure the distance from the depth sounder thru hull to the bottom of the keel on our Ericson 32-3 shoal draft (4.33')... of course I forgot as the other to do items filled up the time... I wanted to update our new depth sounder with this information... I...

we did replace the speed transducer with a new DST800. we used bedding compound last year. We did have a little "wetness" around the fitting so we are going to re-bed it this year with PL 4200, but all in all it worked fine. Just be sure to get it fully packed The old depth transducer was a...

to help the dream along... :egrin: from Wisconsin...

this what we ended up with - a Navtec (the -10 size) with a turnbuckle. We also added a marked stick to not over tighten the backstay!

We have been using the 4 to 1 as you pointed out by just moving the swapping the blocks, never had a problem. I would worry about maybe bending the boom with a 5 to 1 with a winch! our biggest issue is moving the traveler under load, but that's another topic :egrin:

Another angle of the asail!

we were sailing back from the Lake Michigan Singlehanded Society Double Handed race and Brian, the owner of the 32-3, had the clew of his 155 jib get blown out in a squall in the race! We had removed it the be repaired. The asm is a North A1.5 :egrin:

Happy New Year! and a picture to warm us up during a long winter's night (at least here in the mid-west) :egrin: