I think you hit the nail on the head Thom.....

Your Pilot house is well suited for your area. The vessel looks good with it
and it extends your sailing season. Only a limp wristed tropical sailor
without experience of sailing in the colder latitudes and thusly with self
imposed limitations as to where he can venture would ever cast doubt as to
the functionality of a Pilot House on such a fine vessel. Let's face it...
he can't even differentiate between your keel and rudder yet.

I think it smacks of pure jealousy... on Neal's part. I'm certain that Cut
The Mustard would be a fine dinghy for your vessel. :-)

CM

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Hey CN,

I'm up and a Very Good Morning to you and the ASA, from the NW

Thought I'd start the day off with a picture of the Pilothouse in her
Slip. I think she is a beauty but she's mine and that is a slanted view.
Likes get some comments from the group.

Did you have a chance yet to figure out how a "Wing Keel" functions?
I'll give you some time to work out your answer.

In the meantime, I'd like to state that I have as much stability and
less leeway than "Cut the Mustard" due to the depth of "Pneuma's" keel

Also less heel, giving me more effective sail area

Again, Good Morning

Ole Thom




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Why, you no good, overgrown, alcohol gulping, Nanu of the North,
pimply faced, shut-in, wannabe sailor!

Ole Thom's pilot house looks better than most because it is not
really a pilot house at all. If the man knew anything about boats
he would call it a 'raised saloon' cruiser.

What's so ludicrous about it is his original keel. It was a radical
racing keel on a cruiser. In other words the designer was confused -
as confused as the buyer. What Thom's boat amounts to is a state
of confusion. Perfect match for the likes of Ole Thom, BTW.

And, you are not thinking too clearly of late, yourself. Next thing
you, too, will be making up stories about my removing my keel
and fitting it back on well forward of it's original position.

How ludicrous! Whatever would motivate me to ruin perfection
with some lame, half-assed effort? As anyone can see from my
website, what I do and what I own in always top-notch.

Cut the Mustard sails circles around Overproof!

CN



"Overproof" wrote in message news:EA2xd.9204$dv1.4864@edtnps89...
I think you hit the nail on the head Thom.....

Your Pilot house is well suited for your area. The vessel looks good with it
and it extends your sailing season. Only a limp wristed tropical sailor
without experience of sailing in the colder latitudes and thusly with self
imposed limitations as to where he can venture would ever cast doubt as to
the functionality of a Pilot House on such a fine vessel. Let's face it...
he can't even differentiate between your keel and rudder yet.

I think it smacks of pure jealousy... on Neal's part. I'm certain that Cut
The Mustard would be a fine dinghy for your vessel. :-)

CM

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
...
Hey CN,

I'm up and a Very Good Morning to you and the ASA, from the NW

Thought I'd start the day off with a picture of the Pilothouse in her
Slip. I think she is a beauty but she's mine and that is a slanted view.
Likes get some comments from the group.

Did you have a chance yet to figure out how a "Wing Keel" functions?
I'll give you some time to work out your answer.

In the meantime, I'd like to state that I have as much stability and
less leeway than "Cut the Mustard" due to the depth of "Pneuma's" keel

Also less heel, giving me more effective sail area

Again, Good Morning

Ole Thom




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The Motivation;

Same motivation that caused you to install Galv. Pipe in your Boom; It
was broken. :^)

Lower priced boats developed leaks around Keel Bolts thru the GRP Bilge.
The working of the bolts and nuts narrowed the thickness of the hull.
The cheap way to repair ( Like pipe in the broken Boom was to move the
keel bolt, after sealing the old holes, to firmer sections of the hull.

This caused many of the Coranados to be scraped or sold for give away
price.

It was a boat that was built to a market price. Many cheap things were
done to meet a price.

Ole Thom

CN,

"Pneuma" is a PILOTHOUSE SLOOP. Not a raised saloon cruiser. It is a
Pilothouse Sloop with inside helm. A good boat, A fast cruising
Pilothouse Sloop/Aux with inboard diesel power. Engine mounted on motor
mounts ( not a bolt on wooden outboard bracket)

They are a very desirable boat. Rather hard to find on the used boat
market. Price used is still rather high. It is the PILOTHOUSE that keeps
the price up.

So, eat your heart out CN, your "Cut the Mustard" formally "Chinchita"
isn't even close to being in the same league with her.

Hope the weather brakes for you. My crew was over tonite and we decided
to not go out until after the Holidays

Ole Thom

You are so full of it sigh read on, please.

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message ...
CN,

"Pneuma" is a PILOTHOUSE SLOOP. Not a raised saloon cruiser. It is a
Pilothouse Sloop with inside helm. A good boat, A fast cruising
Pilothouse Sloop/Aux with inboard diesel power. Engine mounted on motor
mounts ( not a bolt on wooden outboard bracket)

You will find no outboard bracket on my fine, blue water, raised deck
sloop. "Cut the Mustard" is faster and more seaworthy than "Pneuma"
even with Bobsprit at the helm. Your inboard diesel is responsible for
your hull failure at the keel/hull join. It was all that heavy vibration
that turned the hull around the keel bolts to mush. Ever think of that,
Ole Boy?

They are a very desirable boat. Rather hard to find on the used boat
market. Price used is still rather high. It is the PILOTHOUSE that keeps
the price up.

And the windage up and the center of gravity up and the boom up and
the insurance rates up . . .

So, eat your heart out CN, your "Cut the Mustard" formally "Chinchita"
isn't even close to being in the same league with her.

I'm happy to not be in the same league as "Pneuma" who will be 20,000
leagues under the sea should she ever even attempt as many blue water
passages as "Cut the Mustard" has under her keel.

Hope the weather brakes for you. My crew was over tonite and we decided
to not go out until after the Holidays

Ole Thom

Weather is never an obstacle to sailing "Cut the Mustard". She can handle
anything. She's thrives an anything Mother Nature can throw her way.
She's seen more hurricanes than all the boats on alt.sailing.asa combined
and she keeps getting better.

Wishing you and yours as happy a holiday season as possible knowing your
boat is just another pretender.

CN