I'm thinking of a 48 footer. All I have to do is cut my boat in half
and weld in 6 foot. I need a navigation station in the main salon as
well as the aft cabain and the extra 6 foot would be perfect. A wrap
around settee to stbd with palsma screen on the bulkhead and a first
class hand crafted Phillipino Mahogany nav station to port and another
600 gallons of tankage, and the coolest sky light on any vessel. I
could do it in a week with the right tools and help, luckly we have
some of the best steel yards and rolling machines in the world in
Galveston.

It would be worth the effort since RedCloud is in such pristine
condition.

Boobsie would **** man-o-wars that I can do this for just a few grand
and have a customized vessel that will out preform most production
boats of the same size.

I will have room between my main and mizzen to fly one of those V
shaped sails(help me here with the name Ole Thom).

Anyone have a copy of the latest version of Autocad?

Joe

Those who are sailors sail.

Those who are pretend sailors spend most of their time
modifying their boats.

Those with good boats sail them and have no desire to
modify them.

CN

"Joe" wrote in message om...
I'm thinking of a 48 footer. All I have to do is cut my boat in half
and weld in 6 foot. I need a navigation station in the main salon as
well as the aft cabain and the extra 6 foot would be perfect. A wrap
around settee to stbd with palsma screen on the bulkhead and a first
class hand crafted Phillipino Mahogany nav station to port and another
600 gallons of tankage, and the coolest sky light on any vessel. I
could do it in a week with the right tools and help, luckly we have
some of the best steel yards and rolling machines in the world in
Galveston.

It would be worth the effort since RedCloud is in such pristine
condition.

Boobsie would **** man-o-wars that I can do this for just a few grand
and have a customized vessel that will out preform most production
boats of the same size.

I will have room between my main and mizzen to fly one of those V
shaped sails(help me here with the name Ole Thom).

Anyone have a copy of the latest version of Autocad?

Joe

Joe,

If you fly it off the Mizen Mast it would be a "Mizen Staysail"

If you carry a Fore Staysail (Which you may need for balance) It could
also be called, "Aft Staysail"

Question; What would you do to the Keel?

Ole Thom

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message ...

Question; What would you do to the Keel?

Ole Thom


Keep scraping the rust off then priming and painting it
over and over again?

CN

(Thom Stewart) wrote in message ...
Joe,

If you fly it off the Mizen Mast it would be a "Mizen Staysail"

If you carry a Fore Staysail (Which you may need for balance) It could
also be called, "Aft Staysail"

Question; What would you do to the Keel?

cut the trunk loose slide it back and extend the keel forward.

Joe

Ole Thom

What kind of rum are you drinking you old fart?

CN

Thom's posts have been more and more disjointed lately. Some have been
positively delusional.

Thom has either "changed" or it's a different Thom. His posts are very odd as
of late.

RB

Yeah sure Oz,

Fibre Glass is solid: Especially when it was shot from the "Chopper
Guns". That is why there are never Blisters in the Hull. That is why
prenetration has never been a problem (Uniflite Valiants)

I know Neal moved his keel becaused , "He said he did." He posted it
right here on ASA when he posted the picture of his boat out of water.

That is a pretty good indication that the present CN is a put on!

BUT you're right Oz they don't bury keel bolt:^) Wish I could show you
the bilge on "Pneuma" I lift the Bilge board and not a keel bolt nut in
sight. It is flat!!

Ole Thom

Thom,

Your memory is defective. Can you not remember me ever saying my
keel is superior to most bolt ons because it fits into a cassette in
the hull.

The cassette is the female counterpart of the big, square male
upper boss on the keel. The keel cannot be moved forwards
or backwards without re-doing the cassette in the hull. As
a matter of fact the Coronado manual claims the keel bolts
are not even needed once the keel is drawn up into the
cassette and the epoxy used to bed it has set up. I don't
wish to stake my life on that claim thus I added extra keel
bolts (one inch diameter) to assist the rather wimpy originals
which were one half inch in diameter and of mild steel which
is very ravaged by rust.

Perhaps you mistook my saying that I installed extra keel bolts
by drilling through the hull in the bilge where the upper side
of the cassette is evident, tapping the cast iron keel, and
installing the stainless steel bolts bedding them in with
5200. This most certainly does not constitute moving the
keel. This did not even necessitate hauling as I did it
in the water. There were no leaks.

Besides why would I ruin the helm on my boat by
moving the keel and changing the relationship between the
center of lateral resistance and the center of lateral effort?

Get with it you old, alcoholic fart.

I'll drink to that!
CN


"Thom Stewart" wrote in message ...
Yeah sure Oz,

Fibre Glass is solid: Especially when it was shot from the "Chopper
Guns". That is why there are never Blisters in the Hull. That is why
prenetration has never been a problem (Uniflite Valiants)

I know Neal moved his keel becaused , "He said he did." He posted it
right here on ASA when he posted the picture of his boat out of water.

That is a pretty good indication that the present CN is a put on!

BUT you're right Oz they don't bury keel bolt:^) Wish I could show you
the bilge on "Pneuma" I lift the Bilge board and not a keel bolt nut in
sight. It is flat!!

Ole Thom

"Thom Stewart" wrote in

That is why
prenetration has never been a problem (Uniflite Valiants)


Sometimes when I drink too much I have that problem .

Scotty