I enjoy sailing and tinkering...own a Mac 26 classic in a slip at the lake and am in the process of restoring an Ericson 29, hull #8.
Ericson 29
Ericson 29
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So continuing on last entry, here is a bit of a collection of imagery from the still-not-completed transom. I won't storyboard this one so much, but there are some interesting facets to cover -- one of the annoying construction details of the Ericson 29 is back upper edge of the transom...
But I really hate climbing over the side of boats from the dock.
I’m sitting here at the lake, writing this from my Macgregor 26s, waiting for the wife and slip neighbors to get up before we go sail to one of the coves and raft up for the night. When we got to the boat last night, she started...
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Doors are cool.
So eagle-eyes toddster noticed that I was building a box instead of a head. :egrin:
The astute would see the batten I added to the bottom to allow it to drop down enough to get it out of the slot in the cabintop. This was routed with a roundover bit (later on) to match the inside-curve of the...
The new main bulkhead was primed then painted with a high-gloss interior-exterior kitchen and bath type acrylic paint. The reasoning is that paint should be the hardest and least porous "economically sustainable" paint, hard enough to sand without gumming up the paper and easy to keep clean. I...
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She's got sole!
Floor frames were carefully measured and cut to float a cm off of the hull, glassed on both sides and epoxy sealed edges, then tabbed into place with 3 layers of 17 oz tabbing. A large 3/8" G-10 backing plate, big enough for the two cooling-water thruhulls & valves, was also glassed in at this...
I went ahead and glassed in the old engine controls panel hole and shifter/throttle hole, as they were located in prime leak water into the boat locations. There was also another hatch near the gas fill in the starboard aft cockpit seating that got glassed in, as well as the gas-fill hole...
This girl needed a real new lease on life. It needed a new backbone..err mast compression post step. It needed a new sole. We could rebuild her... we do have the technology. She could be more than just 'no problem.' She could be spectacular.
I'm a big fan of electric motors, and with a high...
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New Beginnings
Even though I'd stepped back, I did manage to, over a year or so, finish out the new sump and engine bay pretty nicely, and even got the nuisance pump (A whale 320 gulper with air pressure switch) installed. I keep a 5 AH RC lithium pack on it for now, to handle the occasional small leak when...
I was starting to feel pretty good about the sump situation,
but once you start cutting, it becomes an addiction. There was the Great Rotten Galley Removal of '17..
The delaminated cabin sole liner..
1/3rd way through cleaning here.. (PS when using mineral spirits, wear a vapor respirator...
So No Problem needed to come clean about it's past, and if I was ever to get my soon to be wife to come aboard, I had to fix the petrole-mold smell. Unfortunately, much of it was not visible due to the liner arrangement. A couple of biopsies did not go well..
The keel sump had been filled...
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"No Problem"
I guess it's time to introduce "No Problem," the ~1971 Ericson 29 Tall (double spreader model with inboard lowers) hull #8 I picked up two years ago and began to re(build)fit. There will be quite a few chapters in this blog due to the sheer volume of work going into her.
I want to preface...
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