Recent content by Roger Janeway

I just saw this nice looking Ericson 38 pass by at the end of the day heading for an anchorage off Vinalhaven Island in the Penobscot Bay. I forgot to look at her name. The skipper said he thought she was an '82. He's never heard of our forum! You don't see many of these up here, but her...

My PO had fashioned a length of thick line that perfectly fills that gap on the Super Hatch, and I still use it. It's tight so a bit of trouble to put on before a sail. It is true as many here have said that if tension is kept on the lazy sheet during a tack, you don't need this. Still, the...

I just met David for the first time recently based on this recommendation and wish to wholeheartedly second it. He efficiently diagnosed a problem my 1985 Westerbeke was having, came up with a clever solution, and executed it promptly and for a fair price. He also communicated well throughout...

I do this on my E26 simply because the boat heaves to better; better balance between the opposing forces, it seems. Less chafe is an extra benefit.

That is very sad. It was a lovely magazine to receive in paper format. I had been wondering how it was managing to survive and had just renewed my annual subscription 3 weeks before they sent this notice.

The Wager, by David Grann. True story, mid 18th century British navy. More about being shipwrecked than sailing.

On the Great Lakes. It's unclear from the article in GOB how long Gordon Lightfoot owned the boat, but it described him as its "original owner." His hit "Sundown" was released in 1974 and this is a 1976 model year. Subsequent owners kept her name "Sundown", inscribed on her red boot stripe.

Technically true, but you don’t want the dial on your bulkhead reading 4 knots when you’re really going 5. And the dial on the bulkhead is the thing we see while sailing, if we don’t have a Garmin mounted.

I have an old Signet paddlewheel sensor (i.e., not integrated with a depth sensor) and the display has a calibration function that allows adjustments up or down as much as something like 50%. Calibrating it is very tiresome: you drive back and forth in calm conditions on flat water (back and...

Welcome, Chris! I am a slip tenant at the boatyard in Basin H of the Marina, which is called "The BoatYard." It's at the end near the public launch ramp. Because I rent a slip from them, they don't charge me for an annual haul-out when I hire them for repairs or maintenance. I didn't check...

I don't know if this provides any useful perspective, but in Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, I recently did the same on my 26' boat for $1,618 (this doesn't include a haul-out charge). The Trinidad HD Red was 1.5 quarts for $468, and labor was $930. $220 for all the little things.

I had these same concerns when I got my E26-2 a few years ago, because my most recent sailing was on small daysailers (16') that I couldn't reef . So at first I was alarmed at the idea of the mainsheet being on a cleat (being used to hiking out to windward and easing the mainsheet immediately...

Alan, the assessment is not based on an actual appraisal of the boat, but on the original sales price, adjusted every year based on Board of Equalization data on boat sales. I gather from things you said awhile back that I may have paid more for my E26-2 than anyone in history except the...

You may be interested to learn that there is an alternate reality in which our boats’ market values increase over time: the state’s tax rolls. This year, the Los Angeles County Assessor claims my 35-year-old sailboat increased in value by 21% since 2021. The Assessor says this is based on...

I don't have an electric bilge pump. The longest I've left the boat without checking the bilge is 2 months, during the initial Covid lockdown in 2020. So far, most of the water in my bilge comes from exchanging the knotmeter paddlewheel sensor with the dummy plug.