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"DSK" wrote in message
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A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair
or improvement project you've accomplished? What project
would you like to take on?

I know of people who have rewired boats, repowered,
repaired major hull damage, and so on. I met a lot of
sailors who seem reluctant to take on big projects, and we
other who are perpetually working on their boats.

At the moment I'm putting a new deck on our tugboat. But
I'd rank that as mundane, the toughest project I've tried
is making a competitive racing baby out of a 20 year old
Lightning. This went through 3 phases, the first two were
moderate successes and I never got to try the final
result.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Well you do have a way to small of a holding tank on your 35s5 french
junker. The riggings to light too btw.

Joe
Your Owner

My toughest project was Margo, 28, blonde, Russian (with a thick
accent) and a bombshell. She had the look of sex about her that many
young Russian women have. She was tall, thin, but with legs carved in
white marble; large breasted, but well supported with a sexy frame of
well conditioned muscle. I knew she liked me, but she had a shallow
sense of humor, didn't understand American/British sarcasm and got mad
at me a lot. I kept asking her to come sailing and finally she came
aboard several times and she was difficult, fearful of the water and
generally a lot of work. But after much feigned indifference on my
part, she asked to see if I fit in the V-berth, then pinned me there
using my face (quite literally) as a sex toy. I should have known as
she wore a short tacky animal print skirt and who wears that on a small
boat? (Besides Sloco). Needless to say she "came aboard" several more
times after that and I swear that once Margo had her thighs locked
around you, you were there until she was happy....which was something
to plan for.
Sadly she was still too much work even after that so I moved on. We
remained friends until I told her I was getting married. I never heard
from her after that.

My second biggest project was helping a friend remove the paint from a
Cape Dory 25 and restoring the Gelcoat. It wasn't really difficult,
just grueling. A year later I did it to a CD Typhoon and found that
even more horrible because the paint was very tough to remove.


RB
35s5
NY

Grinding out the blisters on ECHO, fairing the hull and
painting it. After that any job on a smaller boat is a
piece of cake. I plan to repaint HOOT in the next
year. I think I can do the whole job in very little time
with the skills I've learned on ECHO.

The hard part was the fact that it seemed so endless.
Once it was primed and ready for paint, I finally felt
like I was over the hump.

The other hard part was just figuring out what tools
worked best, what sandpaper worked best, and
simply finding enough sandpaper. Setting up scoffolds
and building a work bench all added to the time needed
to do the job.

"DSK" wrote...
A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair or improvement
project you've accomplished? What project would you like to take on?

I know of people who have rewired boats, repowered, repaired major hull
damage, and so on. I met a lot of sailors who seem reluctant to take on
big projects, and we other who are perpetually working on their boats.

At the moment I'm putting a new deck on our tugboat. But I'd rank that as
mundane, the toughest project I've tried is making a competitive racing
baby out of a 20 year old Lightning. This went through 3 phases, the first
two were moderate successes and I never got to try the final result.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Your a liar Robert......but hey whats new?

Joe
Your Owner

Your a liar Robert......


I know you'd be happier to think so, but my boats were directly
responsible for 3 marriages and a lot of action. Margo was from the
time I had the Cat 27. Nicer girls followed and finally and best of
all, an ex-girlfriend invited Suzanne out for a sail on Ghost. Sailing
is good for everything!


RB
35s5...a happy boat!
NY

"Swab Rob" wrote
my boats were directly
responsible for 3 miscarriages

that's understandable.

"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
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My toughest project was Margo, 28, blonde, Russian (with a thick
accent) and a bombshell. She had the look of sex about her that many
young Russian women have. She was tall, thin, but with legs carved in
white marble; large breasted, but well supported with a sexy frame of
well conditioned muscle. I knew she liked me, but she had a shallow
sense of humor, didn't understand American/British sarcasm and got mad
at me a lot. I kept asking her to come sailing and finally she came
aboard several times and she was difficult, fearful of the water and
generally a lot of work. But after much feigned indifference on my
part, she asked to see if I fit in the V-berth, then pinned me there
using my face (quite literally) as a sex toy. I should have known as
she wore a short tacky animal print skirt and who wears that on a small
boat? (Besides Sloco). Needless to say she "came aboard" several more
times after that and I swear that once Margo had her thighs locked
around you, you were there until she was happy....which was something
to plan for.
Sadly she was still too much work even after that so I moved on. We
remained friends until I told her I was getting married. I never heard
from her after that.

My second biggest project was helping a friend remove the paint from a
Cape Dory 25 and restoring the Gelcoat. It wasn't really difficult,
just grueling. A year later I did it to a CD Typhoon and found that
even more horrible because the paint was very tough to remove.


RB
35s5
NY


That was the big nosed Russian Olympian wasn't it? Did she ever fully
recover from the steroids?

Amen!

That was the big nosed Russian Olympian wasn't it?


Nope. She was an exotic car exporter who worked for her father. She
drove an NSX, which was a very fun car to drive.


RB
35s5
NY

"DSK" wrote in message
.. .
A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair or improvement
project you've accomplished?

I'd have to say it was working with my father to recondition his 30' custom
cabin cruiser. It was made by a cabinet-maker in the 1950's, who got the
hull plan from navy drawings. It was a fiberglassed plywood hull. It was a
beautiful boat but the varnished cabin (huge), gunnels, and transom had to
be scraped down to bare wood, then refinished. Same with the decks (except
for the teak deck which remained natural). Same with the hull, scraping
scraping and more scraping. I remember working in the bitterly cold wind off
the Jersey shore. Then we rebuilt the Chrysler marine engine (bad valves). I
had the pleasure, being a flexible 14 year old, of hanging by the
floorboards, upside down, to hand grind and seat the valves. There were
countless upgrading projects inside. My dad, being a navy man, insisted that
all the brass shine, whether it be at the helm or in the head (my job), and
that we have a proper, water proof - wind up - navy clock mounted at the
helm. It took us a year to get it all done.
My dad came close to being fanatical about the boat. My brother and I still
laugh about the time when I was climbing the ladder (dry docked) from ground
to the top of the transom (about 15' high). My foot slipped as clumsy 14
year old feet sometimes do, and my leg went through the ladder, I fell back
and was hanging upside down (again) by my bent knee, when the ladder started
to slide over the slick new varnished surface. I thought my leg was broken
and figured I was gonna die when the whole mess hit the ground. I could hear
my dad, running from the boatyard office yelling "you're scratching my god
damned varnish!"
When dad got sick he sold the boat to an ex-professional wrestler; a big fat
slob who abused, neglected, and finally sunk our beautiful boat.
Scout