Recent content by The Blue Heeler

Congrats!!! Don, congrats on your new boat!!! I hope you have many years of enjoyment out of her. Keep in touch with this board. These guys are a huge database of knowledge and experience!! Bart and Cheri former owners of The Blue Heeler

Thanks for the info on the delam issues. I'll make double sure that the surveyer looks very closely at that for us. As to the motion in seaway...well I have no idea how this will be. I think that since it is rigged as a standard sloop and not the Cat Ketch, it should be a fairly traditional...

To keep fish boxes, ice chests, bait tanks, and even tackle boxes less damaging to your olfactory senses (Ie. less stinkie), put a charcoal briquette in the toe of a discarded sock or panty hose. It will not only absorb smells but also protects tightly closed areas from rust by absorbing...

Sean, I'm not sure whether to be flattered or insulted that you put my event in the same category as the PSC bankruptsy! :egrin: However, we are very excited about this and are devouring everything we can get our hands on. If we can actually get the boat or bike sold this month, I'd like to...

I forgot to address the Cat Ketch item. If I found a Cat ketch version, I'd love to have it. This particular boat is the Sloop version with a fractional rig. This particular one that we have our eye on, placed in a long pacific race although I don't believe that it was the Transpac. It's...

Well, the shopping for a boat didn't just include my input. I fell in love with a lot of boats that we have looked at!! I must also satisfy the Admiral!! LOL! The layout of this boat was very accomodating with two comfortable staterooms and a decent size head. The headroom, 6'4" was a big...

It seems like just yesterday that we got The Blue Heeler.......Hey wait! It was just yesterday!!! My wife and I have moved up our 5 year plan to NOW. We are waiting for the house, the harley and The Blue Heeler to sell. We are most likely going to end up in a Freedom 36 as our long term...

I don't even know if we have any other Ericson Sailors on Kentucky lake, but it would be nice to participate in an Ericson Rendevous or Weekend event if we had some here. We are at Pebble Isle Marina at Mile 96.6 on Kentucky lake if anyone is interested. We could set up or coordinate for all...

E29 Head The PO of our boat actually cut out an access panel in the side of the base of the head platform. He installed a nice looking hinged teak door over the opening. I had to tighten the bolts on our PHII head the other day and without this access it would have been impossible. There...

trampoline I think it's time someone invents a mast base trampoline. It should extend out with a 12' diameter with a 6' zone of safety surrounding the mast. This would allow a fall from the mast and you would bounce to land safely in the water around the boat!!!

Sails I have Three North Sails Spinnakers that look like they've never been used. I have a 150 Genoa that I don't expect to use. I have 3 Stay sails that I don't know how to use. We could use a new main and a good working jib. I may contact Davis to talk to them. Does anyone have contact...

I was wondering if anyone had installed a bow roller on thier E29. I would love to see some pictures. I need to install one on our boat but in looking at the front there does not seem to be a good straight place in front of the forestay connection to mount one. Any thoughts...

Well, we have 11 bags of sails that came with our boat. Many have rarely ever been used. I think we are going to keep the working jib and a 170 Genoa. Our main is very dirty but seems to be in good shape overall. However, the Admiral would like to have a new mainsail with the ericson logoa...

I have a Raritan PH-II manual head. It's not drawing water into the bowl, but seems to be having no problem pumping the water in the bowl to the holding tank. I tried to prime it by dumping a few buckets of water into the bowl and they would pump out but no fresh water would enter the bowl...

Old Haunts Revisited Now that my beautiful Blue Heeler is in her new home. The PO just left early this afternoon. He set up all my rigging and sails and he and his wife went out with us to teach us how to raise the sails on this boat and where they typically ran the lines. BTW, this...