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To Rich Hampel Tayana 37
Rich, Just read your newsgroup post and would very much appreciate a response to several concerns that you addressed in that post. Why do you say avoid pulman version if planning passage making ? What polymer do you recommend for running backstays ? How do you recommend testing and sealing bowsprit ? How does one torque test the chain plate bolts ? I have Barient ST mains but don't know if they are the type against which you caution. Comment please. Gratefully, -- Courtney Thomas s/v Mutiny lying Oriental, NC WDB5619 |
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To Rich Hampel Tayana 37
Rich, Just read your newsgroup post and would very much appreciate a response to several concerns that you addressed in that post. Why do you say avoid pulman version if planning passage making ? What polymer do you recommend for running backstays ? How do you recommend testing and sealing bowsprit ? How does one torque test the chain plate bolts ? I have Barient ST mains but don't know if they are the type against which you caution. Comment please. Gratefully, -- Courtney Thomas s/v Mutiny lying Oriental, NC WDB5619 |
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To Rich Hampel Tayana 37
Just to comment on cabin arrangements in general:
From my experience as a boat owner and as a offshore crew, I would have to say that you should have a bunk for every person who is off watch. And settees don't count or any arrangement that prevents the settee from being used by the crew members who are not in their bunks.. I can be chaotic in the main cabin when you have a large crew/family members up and no place to hang out. Not everyone is on watch or in their bunks so you need the settee available for these crew memebers. If you not racing then maybe you have too large a crew if your have to sleep them on the settee. Taylor your crew size to your absolute requirements and berthing arrangement.. My last boat was a Cheoy Lee Clipper 33 and the settee converted to an upper and lower berth. (I think this is what Rich called a Pulman version, I called it the 'Bunk House' cabin plan.) With the bunks make up there was no place for anyone to sit and with the upper folded down the settee was too narrow to sit comfortably (backs were straight up and down, no arm rest). The main reason I was unhappy with it for a live aboard. -- My opinion and experience. FWIW Steve s/v Good Intentions |
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To Rich Hampel Tayana 37
Just to comment on cabin arrangements in general:
From my experience as a boat owner and as a offshore crew, I would have to say that you should have a bunk for every person who is off watch. And settees don't count or any arrangement that prevents the settee from being used by the crew members who are not in their bunks.. I can be chaotic in the main cabin when you have a large crew/family members up and no place to hang out. Not everyone is on watch or in their bunks so you need the settee available for these crew memebers. If you not racing then maybe you have too large a crew if your have to sleep them on the settee. Taylor your crew size to your absolute requirements and berthing arrangement.. My last boat was a Cheoy Lee Clipper 33 and the settee converted to an upper and lower berth. (I think this is what Rich called a Pulman version, I called it the 'Bunk House' cabin plan.) With the bunks make up there was no place for anyone to sit and with the upper folded down the settee was too narrow to sit comfortably (backs were straight up and down, no arm rest). The main reason I was unhappy with it for a live aboard. -- My opinion and experience. FWIW Steve s/v Good Intentions |
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To Rich Hampel Tayana 37
In article , Courtney Thomas
wrote: Rich, Just read your newsgroup post and would very much appreciate a response to several concerns that you addressed in that post. Why do you say avoid pulman version if planning passage making ? The Pulman version has relatively HUGE open-space throughout with distances too great from hand-hold to hand-hold distance.... makes it very difficult to move about inside during a heavy seaway because you have to let go before you can grab onto something else. If you miss grabbing the next hand-hold you can get hurt when in a heavy seaway. In any of the other Tayana set-ups you probably have twice as many of the available handholds you need for every possible position inside the boat. When I first saw a Pullman version the lack of ready available handholds made it a deal breaker. IMHO a pullman version makes a TY37 a "bay boat". What polymer do you recommend for running backstays ? Vectran, then Spectra w/UV cover How do you recommend testing and sealing bowsprit ? remove the through bolt that sets the sprit to the stem ..... go in with long dental pick type probe at the areas of laminate joints ... searching for SOFT spots. Ditto where jib stay connects to bowsprit (4 botls), where staysl boom connects (4 througholes) and the large tranverse bolt that holds the sprit to the twin samson posts. Look along the laminate joints near the butt end of the sprit if you see separation of the glued joint or constant separation if you varnish, etc. then push on the joint with working end of a blunt screwdriver; if ther is rot underneath the screwdriver will sink into the rot. The OEM lamination seems to be mahogany to teak via a polyester glue. If the bowsprit is off the boat a good whack with a wooden hammer will test for the strength of the glue bond (which seems to oxidize vs. the teak surface. Fortunately you will be able to pry loose all the laminations with a few whacks of thin chisel - the OEM 'glue' is that weak. Then replane the surfaces, etch with acetone and reglue with epoxy or recorcinol. Any rotted pieces can be replace with a straight grain 'marine' wood of your choice - spruce, yellow pine, mahogany, etc. Sealing should be done by expoxying in metal ferrules for all the through-bolt bores... so that when the attachment bolt work loose the wood is still sealed by the ferrule. Its important to carefully balance the tension in the bobstay with the tension in the forestay ..... as when they are unequal either the top or the bottom of the sprit will bend and work the olaminations loose. Right now Im calculating how many 1/4" cross/ through bolts to be added just beneath the top and bottom surfaces to prevent the laminate separation - between the stem connection and the connection of the butt with the sampson posts. The function of the cross through bolts will result in constant transverse clamping pressure to equalize the tendancy for the sprit laminations to open on the side that goes into tension when loaded ... and creates 'laughing laminate' joints = open joints that permit water to enter. Most rot that ever saw on a TY37 bowsprit was near the through bolt that connects the sprit to the samson posts. Usually you wont notice the rot until you push quite hard onto the surface of the 'unknown species of inferior asian mahogany' expecially where its glued to the alternating teak boards. . How does one torque test the chain plate bolts ? Unforturnately the Tayana is built in Taiwan where ancient British Whitworth Imperial machine system is still used .... and metal components are variable and 'strange' in chemical composition/strength. I used a torque wrench applied to the chainplate nuts and applied 15 ft.lbs. of torque to test. Those that fail, usually fail at 5-10 ft. lb. .... or virtually no torque at all!!!!! Reason: a proper designed bolt system should NOT depend solely on the material strengths of the fastner materials holding the assembly together .... (or you could just use a clevis pin.) Threaded bolts hold things together principly by the PRESSURE the bolt gives to the mating parts. Its the resulting friction generated between the mating surfaces by torquing up the bolts that should be holding the chainplate to the hull and not the ultimate tensile strength of "just the bolt" in a 'shear' situation. When I put in 5/16" high quality 316 stainless steel replacment bolts, I torqued them to 25 ft. Lb. My (safety) engineering design has belt, suspenders + velcro and staples approach. and then in critical stress areas double or triple the normal safety facrors, especially ANYTIME stainless steel is used ( a virtually totally worthless material for marine or cyclic load applications). Go with high quality bronze (with certs.) any time you can .... or the new ultra modern (read - very expensive) stainless grades that can survive corrosion attack. I have Barient ST mains but don't know if they are the type against which you caution. Comment please. Some of the Barients have a phenolic/polymer top flange, are held onto the drum spindle by a 'spring' that fits into a detent on the shaft. You reach into the winch handle connection (center hole) and find a 'push button'.to release the drum from the spindle. When the spring ages and looses strength it can no longer hold the drum to the spindle; if the lead on the rope is such that its higher than the top of the drum, those forces imparted will suddenly pull the drum right off the spindle .... the drum will stay on the rope and like a yo-yo will fly along the rope until it smacks something. If the winch has lots of power/force due to high load the force can be quite high enough to hurt someone when the drum flys off travels along the sheet/halyard ....and if it hits someone - 8-10 stitches. Gratefully, |
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To Rich Hampel Tayana 37
In article , Courtney Thomas
wrote: Rich, Just read your newsgroup post and would very much appreciate a response to several concerns that you addressed in that post. Why do you say avoid pulman version if planning passage making ? The Pulman version has relatively HUGE open-space throughout with distances too great from hand-hold to hand-hold distance.... makes it very difficult to move about inside during a heavy seaway because you have to let go before you can grab onto something else. If you miss grabbing the next hand-hold you can get hurt when in a heavy seaway. In any of the other Tayana set-ups you probably have twice as many of the available handholds you need for every possible position inside the boat. When I first saw a Pullman version the lack of ready available handholds made it a deal breaker. IMHO a pullman version makes a TY37 a "bay boat". What polymer do you recommend for running backstays ? Vectran, then Spectra w/UV cover How do you recommend testing and sealing bowsprit ? remove the through bolt that sets the sprit to the stem ..... go in with long dental pick type probe at the areas of laminate joints ... searching for SOFT spots. Ditto where jib stay connects to bowsprit (4 botls), where staysl boom connects (4 througholes) and the large tranverse bolt that holds the sprit to the twin samson posts. Look along the laminate joints near the butt end of the sprit if you see separation of the glued joint or constant separation if you varnish, etc. then push on the joint with working end of a blunt screwdriver; if ther is rot underneath the screwdriver will sink into the rot. The OEM lamination seems to be mahogany to teak via a polyester glue. If the bowsprit is off the boat a good whack with a wooden hammer will test for the strength of the glue bond (which seems to oxidize vs. the teak surface. Fortunately you will be able to pry loose all the laminations with a few whacks of thin chisel - the OEM 'glue' is that weak. Then replane the surfaces, etch with acetone and reglue with epoxy or recorcinol. Any rotted pieces can be replace with a straight grain 'marine' wood of your choice - spruce, yellow pine, mahogany, etc. Sealing should be done by expoxying in metal ferrules for all the through-bolt bores... so that when the attachment bolt work loose the wood is still sealed by the ferrule. Its important to carefully balance the tension in the bobstay with the tension in the forestay ..... as when they are unequal either the top or the bottom of the sprit will bend and work the olaminations loose. Right now Im calculating how many 1/4" cross/ through bolts to be added just beneath the top and bottom surfaces to prevent the laminate separation - between the stem connection and the connection of the butt with the sampson posts. The function of the cross through bolts will result in constant transverse clamping pressure to equalize the tendancy for the sprit laminations to open on the side that goes into tension when loaded ... and creates 'laughing laminate' joints = open joints that permit water to enter. Most rot that ever saw on a TY37 bowsprit was near the through bolt that connects the sprit to the samson posts. Usually you wont notice the rot until you push quite hard onto the surface of the 'unknown species of inferior asian mahogany' expecially where its glued to the alternating teak boards. . How does one torque test the chain plate bolts ? Unforturnately the Tayana is built in Taiwan where ancient British Whitworth Imperial machine system is still used .... and metal components are variable and 'strange' in chemical composition/strength. I used a torque wrench applied to the chainplate nuts and applied 15 ft.lbs. of torque to test. Those that fail, usually fail at 5-10 ft. lb. .... or virtually no torque at all!!!!! Reason: a proper designed bolt system should NOT depend solely on the material strengths of the fastner materials holding the assembly together .... (or you could just use a clevis pin.) Threaded bolts hold things together principly by the PRESSURE the bolt gives to the mating parts. Its the resulting friction generated between the mating surfaces by torquing up the bolts that should be holding the chainplate to the hull and not the ultimate tensile strength of "just the bolt" in a 'shear' situation. When I put in 5/16" high quality 316 stainless steel replacment bolts, I torqued them to 25 ft. Lb. My (safety) engineering design has belt, suspenders + velcro and staples approach. and then in critical stress areas double or triple the normal safety facrors, especially ANYTIME stainless steel is used ( a virtually totally worthless material for marine or cyclic load applications). Go with high quality bronze (with certs.) any time you can .... or the new ultra modern (read - very expensive) stainless grades that can survive corrosion attack. I have Barient ST mains but don't know if they are the type against which you caution. Comment please. Some of the Barients have a phenolic/polymer top flange, are held onto the drum spindle by a 'spring' that fits into a detent on the shaft. You reach into the winch handle connection (center hole) and find a 'push button'.to release the drum from the spindle. When the spring ages and looses strength it can no longer hold the drum to the spindle; if the lead on the rope is such that its higher than the top of the drum, those forces imparted will suddenly pull the drum right off the spindle .... the drum will stay on the rope and like a yo-yo will fly along the rope until it smacks something. If the winch has lots of power/force due to high load the force can be quite high enough to hurt someone when the drum flys off travels along the sheet/halyard ....and if it hits someone - 8-10 stitches. Gratefully, |
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To Rich Hampel Tayana 37
Thanks so much !
Best regards, Courtney Rich Hampel wrote: In article , Courtney Thomas wrote: Rich, Just read your newsgroup post and would very much appreciate a response to several concerns that you addressed in that post. Why do you say avoid pulman version if planning passage making ? The Pulman version has relatively HUGE open-space throughout with distances too great from hand-hold to hand-hold distance.... makes it very difficult to move about inside during a heavy seaway because you have to let go before you can grab onto something else. If you miss grabbing the next hand-hold you can get hurt when in a heavy seaway. In any of the other Tayana set-ups you probably have twice as many of the available handholds you need for every possible position inside the boat. When I first saw a Pullman version the lack of ready available handholds made it a deal breaker. IMHO a pullman version makes a TY37 a "bay boat". What polymer do you recommend for running backstays ? Vectran, then Spectra w/UV cover How do you recommend testing and sealing bowsprit ? remove the through bolt that sets the sprit to the stem ..... go in with long dental pick type probe at the areas of laminate joints ... searching for SOFT spots. Ditto where jib stay connects to bowsprit (4 botls), where staysl boom connects (4 througholes) and the large tranverse bolt that holds the sprit to the twin samson posts. Look along the laminate joints near the butt end of the sprit if you see separation of the glued joint or constant separation if you varnish, etc. then push on the joint with working end of a blunt screwdriver; if ther is rot underneath the screwdriver will sink into the rot. The OEM lamination seems to be mahogany to teak via a polyester glue. If the bowsprit is off the boat a good whack with a wooden hammer will test for the strength of the glue bond (which seems to oxidize vs. the teak surface. Fortunately you will be able to pry loose all the laminations with a few whacks of thin chisel - the OEM 'glue' is that weak. Then replane the surfaces, etch with acetone and reglue with epoxy or recorcinol. Any rotted pieces can be replace with a straight grain 'marine' wood of your choice - spruce, yellow pine, mahogany, etc. Sealing should be done by expoxying in metal ferrules for all the through-bolt bores... so that when the attachment bolt work loose the wood is still sealed by the ferrule. Its important to carefully balance the tension in the bobstay with the tension in the forestay .... as when they are unequal either the top or the bottom of the sprit will bend and work the olaminations loose. Right now Im calculating how many 1/4" cross/ through bolts to be added just beneath the top and bottom surfaces to prevent the laminate separation - between the stem connection and the connection of the butt with the sampson posts. The function of the cross through bolts will result in constant transverse clamping pressure to equalize the tendancy for the sprit laminations to open on the side that goes into tension when loaded ... and creates 'laughing laminate' joints = open joints that permit water to enter. Most rot that ever saw on a TY37 bowsprit was near the through bolt that connects the sprit to the samson posts. Usually you wont notice the rot until you push quite hard onto the surface of the 'unknown species of inferior asian mahogany' expecially where its glued to the alternating teak boards. . How does one torque test the chain plate bolts ? Unforturnately the Tayana is built in Taiwan where ancient British Whitworth Imperial machine system is still used .... and metal components are variable and 'strange' in chemical composition/strength. I used a torque wrench applied to the chainplate nuts and applied 15 ft.lbs. of torque to test. Those that fail, usually fail at 5-10 ft. lb. .... or virtually no torque at all!!!!! Reason: a proper designed bolt system should NOT depend solely on the material strengths of the fastner materials holding the assembly together .... (or you could just use a clevis pin.) Threaded bolts hold things together principly by the PRESSURE the bolt gives to the mating parts. Its the resulting friction generated between the mating surfaces by torquing up the bolts that should be holding the chainplate to the hull and not the ultimate tensile strength of "just the bolt" in a 'shear' situation. When I put in 5/16" high quality 316 stainless steel replacment bolts, I torqued them to 25 ft. Lb. My (safety) engineering design has belt, suspenders + velcro and staples approach. and then in critical stress areas double or triple the normal safety facrors, especially ANYTIME stainless steel is used ( a virtually totally worthless material for marine or cyclic load applications). Go with high quality bronze (with certs.) any time you can .... or the new ultra modern (read - very expensive) stainless grades that can survive corrosion attack. I have Barient ST mains but don't know if they are the type against which you caution. Comment please. Some of the Barients have a phenolic/polymer top flange, are held onto the drum spindle by a 'spring' that fits into a detent on the shaft. You reach into the winch handle connection (center hole) and find a 'push button'.to release the drum from the spindle. When the spring ages and looses strength it can no longer hold the drum to the spindle; if the lead on the rope is such that its higher than the top of the drum, those forces imparted will suddenly pull the drum right off the spindle .... the drum will stay on the rope and like a yo-yo will fly along the rope until it smacks something. If the winch has lots of power/force due to high load the force can be quite high enough to hurt someone when the drum flys off travels along the sheet/halyard ....and if it hits someone - 8-10 stitches. Gratefully, |
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To Rich Hampel Tayana 37
Thanks so much !
Best regards, Courtney Rich Hampel wrote: In article , Courtney Thomas wrote: Rich, Just read your newsgroup post and would very much appreciate a response to several concerns that you addressed in that post. Why do you say avoid pulman version if planning passage making ? The Pulman version has relatively HUGE open-space throughout with distances too great from hand-hold to hand-hold distance.... makes it very difficult to move about inside during a heavy seaway because you have to let go before you can grab onto something else. If you miss grabbing the next hand-hold you can get hurt when in a heavy seaway. In any of the other Tayana set-ups you probably have twice as many of the available handholds you need for every possible position inside the boat. When I first saw a Pullman version the lack of ready available handholds made it a deal breaker. IMHO a pullman version makes a TY37 a "bay boat". What polymer do you recommend for running backstays ? Vectran, then Spectra w/UV cover How do you recommend testing and sealing bowsprit ? remove the through bolt that sets the sprit to the stem ..... go in with long dental pick type probe at the areas of laminate joints ... searching for SOFT spots. Ditto where jib stay connects to bowsprit (4 botls), where staysl boom connects (4 througholes) and the large tranverse bolt that holds the sprit to the twin samson posts. Look along the laminate joints near the butt end of the sprit if you see separation of the glued joint or constant separation if you varnish, etc. then push on the joint with working end of a blunt screwdriver; if ther is rot underneath the screwdriver will sink into the rot. The OEM lamination seems to be mahogany to teak via a polyester glue. If the bowsprit is off the boat a good whack with a wooden hammer will test for the strength of the glue bond (which seems to oxidize vs. the teak surface. Fortunately you will be able to pry loose all the laminations with a few whacks of thin chisel - the OEM 'glue' is that weak. Then replane the surfaces, etch with acetone and reglue with epoxy or recorcinol. Any rotted pieces can be replace with a straight grain 'marine' wood of your choice - spruce, yellow pine, mahogany, etc. Sealing should be done by expoxying in metal ferrules for all the through-bolt bores... so that when the attachment bolt work loose the wood is still sealed by the ferrule. Its important to carefully balance the tension in the bobstay with the tension in the forestay .... as when they are unequal either the top or the bottom of the sprit will bend and work the olaminations loose. Right now Im calculating how many 1/4" cross/ through bolts to be added just beneath the top and bottom surfaces to prevent the laminate separation - between the stem connection and the connection of the butt with the sampson posts. The function of the cross through bolts will result in constant transverse clamping pressure to equalize the tendancy for the sprit laminations to open on the side that goes into tension when loaded ... and creates 'laughing laminate' joints = open joints that permit water to enter. Most rot that ever saw on a TY37 bowsprit was near the through bolt that connects the sprit to the samson posts. Usually you wont notice the rot until you push quite hard onto the surface of the 'unknown species of inferior asian mahogany' expecially where its glued to the alternating teak boards. . How does one torque test the chain plate bolts ? Unforturnately the Tayana is built in Taiwan where ancient British Whitworth Imperial machine system is still used .... and metal components are variable and 'strange' in chemical composition/strength. I used a torque wrench applied to the chainplate nuts and applied 15 ft.lbs. of torque to test. Those that fail, usually fail at 5-10 ft. lb. .... or virtually no torque at all!!!!! Reason: a proper designed bolt system should NOT depend solely on the material strengths of the fastner materials holding the assembly together .... (or you could just use a clevis pin.) Threaded bolts hold things together principly by the PRESSURE the bolt gives to the mating parts. Its the resulting friction generated between the mating surfaces by torquing up the bolts that should be holding the chainplate to the hull and not the ultimate tensile strength of "just the bolt" in a 'shear' situation. When I put in 5/16" high quality 316 stainless steel replacment bolts, I torqued them to 25 ft. Lb. My (safety) engineering design has belt, suspenders + velcro and staples approach. and then in critical stress areas double or triple the normal safety facrors, especially ANYTIME stainless steel is used ( a virtually totally worthless material for marine or cyclic load applications). Go with high quality bronze (with certs.) any time you can .... or the new ultra modern (read - very expensive) stainless grades that can survive corrosion attack. I have Barient ST mains but don't know if they are the type against which you caution. Comment please. Some of the Barients have a phenolic/polymer top flange, are held onto the drum spindle by a 'spring' that fits into a detent on the shaft. You reach into the winch handle connection (center hole) and find a 'push button'.to release the drum from the spindle. When the spring ages and looses strength it can no longer hold the drum to the spindle; if the lead on the rope is such that its higher than the top of the drum, those forces imparted will suddenly pull the drum right off the spindle .... the drum will stay on the rope and like a yo-yo will fly along the rope until it smacks something. If the winch has lots of power/force due to high load the force can be quite high enough to hurt someone when the drum flys off travels along the sheet/halyard ....and if it hits someone - 8-10 stitches. Gratefully, |
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