Re: M_Boats: Working, working, cruising, cruising - long
Hi Gordon, Thanks for the idea of photos, charts and souvenirs. As for nautical charts, years ago I thought about writing an article for CRUISING or some other magazine, the main idea being: "A Lifetime of Sailing Weights 63.2 Pounds" It would have gone into details of how you accumulate 63.2 pounds of charts over 50 years. My Charts cover: the Stockholm archipelago; Danish islands and the Baltic the Elbe River and Kiel canal the Netherlands, Isselmeer, inland canals and coast Dutch, Belgian and French inland waterways the English Channel - Belgian, French and British ports the Seine Elba and Corsica in the Med. plus the Italian coast to Porto Fino the Adriatic: Italian coast and Yugoslavian coasts New England.......... New York to Boston and beyond It becomes quite a collection over time, as do the all the Sailing Instructions; Light Lists; Tide Tables, plus book listing maritime expressions in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, so that you can make yourself understood in the other country. To shake up the natives, my dinghy has a Plimsoll mark on each side. Connie
Connie, Sounds like fun, We can get you a cart just for loading the charts and stuff. I may not have that much 'stuff' but quite a few. I have all the Coast Guard courses and Coastal charts too.We even have a clock with the face being the local 'chart' of Monterey Bay, CA (showing depths and all). I wanted to add some for Down Under but didn't connect with any good sailing craft while there (watch out for next time). So yes, I won't admit how many years on the water (since a Sea Explorer), but my Daughter said something about me "handing Noah the nails". Have FUN with it. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: <chbenneck@juno.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:07 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Working, working, cruising, cruising - long
Hi Gordon,
Thanks for the idea of photos, charts and souvenirs.
As for nautical charts, years ago I thought about writing an article for CRUISING or some other magazine, the main idea being: "A Lifetime of Sailing Weights 63.2 Pounds"
It would have gone into details of how you accumulate 63.2 pounds of charts over 50 years.
My Charts cover:
the Stockholm archipelago; Danish islands and the Baltic the Elbe River and Kiel canal the Netherlands, Isselmeer, inland canals and coast Dutch, Belgian and French inland waterways the English Channel - Belgian, French and British ports the Seine Elba and Corsica in the Med. plus the Italian coast to Porto Fino the Adriatic: Italian coast and Yugoslavian coasts New England.......... New York to Boston and beyond
It becomes quite a collection over time, as do the all the Sailing Instructions; Light Lists; Tide Tables, plus book listing maritime expressions in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, so that you can make yourself understood in the other country.
To shake up the natives, my dinghy has a Plimsoll mark on each side.
Connie
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I didnt think I could do it but removing the bow pulpit I was able to get the boat in the garage. The amazing part is that my wives car also fits in there (barely) so I can work on the boat after dark (short days mean getting home after dark and wishing for time). Thats great for me. I have been compounding, glazing and finally using the 3M wax and compound product. Using the Harbor Freight polisher ($25.00 if you show them the Internet website price) and a $20.00 reversible 3m lambswool bonnet, I have brought out a hidden shine I have not seen before. It is a tiring process though and it took me doing a whole side of the boat before I finally got the hang of polishing. It is best to compound first then glaze then wax. But that means going over the boat at least 3 times. Man is my arm sore. Of course the trick is not to let it go to long before wax jobs. I have also used some Olympic wood preserver w/ the cinammon stain on the graying teak wood. I wasnt sure how that would work, but the stain took and the wood was starving for some oil. Man it sure looks good especially the cockpit hatches. I have already applied 2 coats of Thompsons water seal on the hatches and will appy some to the teak now since I have all the fiberglass around the teak taped of. (dont use masking tape use the Blue easy lift tape, much easier to remove and no fighting the adhesive). I bought some 65% cu ablative CCP bottom paint at WM $16.00 for a quart. What a deal stuff goes for $168.00 /gallon only thing is its red and my bottom paint is blue, its going to look funny out of the water but oh well, better that then barnacles. And lastly (sorry about the raving) while I was polishing the sides I uncovered the boats original name, it had been painted over and was barely visible. But if you shine the light just right....bam there it is. I traced it out and the hand lettering is cool. I have been holding off naming the boat the PO just had the name on paper "Barely 17" I thought that was cute but not for my boat. The uncovered name is "Sagitta" I looked it up and Sagitta is the third smallest constellation in the sky. It shows clearly the shape of an arrow flying towards the Swan, Cygnus. Small and beautiful thats her. Gilbert M-17 #76 Sagitta
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