Didn't even tear up too much in the process. Here it is going out the door.
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Didn't even tear up too much in the process. Here it is going out the door.
Just high enough to clear the rail while I pull the trailer ahead. Jr.'s turning into a pretty good little photographer.
Sure glad mom wasn't around!
Wow dad! It's bigger n me!
I thought maybe 200 lbs., the scales go to 300, and it went past and stopped. I'd say 350, plus the other 100+ in lead pigs. Maybe we can show off the sexy world class stern now.
Really amazing! Must be a "believe it or not" here :)
Bill,
I am absolutely in awe of your enthusiasm, your spirit, your damn hard work to get this fine boat back to where it should be! What kind of bum would do this kind of thing to another sailor? I could not believe it when I saw the pics. with the floorboards out, almost flush beneath the boards, where I have lots of space, you had a tummy full!
You are to be commended for your efforts and I truly hope everything works out, (and I know it will), because you deserve a really fine sail on a great afternoon with your family! Tell your son that I think he is great and he really reminds me of our son at the same age!
I really wish that a number of us Ariel sailors lived closer to you to where we could give you a hand!
Fair winds,
Jim
...and some of us wish we lived closer so we could "help" clean out the chain locker!;)
As Bill says, that tumor should be in Rippleby's Believe It Or Knot. Or the Guinness Book of Beer. Here's to the canpaign!
Are you sure it's concrete? Looks like it could be a hugely encrusted battery group. An antique solidstate no maintenance agm.
If 350 did indeed pull some time as a mule, I would wager that it warn't with Bobo Bush or Mary Warner. And too funky an operation for Mama Coca. The DFO, when he had his mojo crossing the northern border, was packing sailbags of fags. Nespa?
If you were going to honor a lady's shady past and play on words - faluca is egyptian for sailboat, I'd suggest, Fayuca, has a fine real time story attached to it, but I believe it means contraband en espanole. Has a distinct bawdy quality You will perform a CSI in the forepeak with a handheld vacuum and a new bag - see what sucks up? :cool:
I think there are some lead chunks in the concrete also. Way too heavy to just be cement. Maybe a big chunk of lead they put in to make up for no inboard? Then someone poured cement over it. Why? Who knows. Maybe he had a fat wife on the bow he had to counterweight. I'm just glad it's out, with very little damage to anything. Now I need some ideas on what to do under the cockpit. As you've seen, there's no galley, other than little sink where the hanging locker was. And really, for day sailing/weekending, don't need much other than maybe a bar-bee on the rail. Don't really know. New territory. I'm just a country bumpkin. Tully Mars is my hero.
I'm excited to get her back in the water and see how she looks.
And as for names glorifying a shady past, I'd rather not. Think I'll just let the kids have a vote. Afterall, they're really the reason.:p
Took the vacuum to her today. When the water and crap cleared out. guess what? More %^%#@# LEAD!!! I estimate 70-80 lbs. more, in the very bottom in the sump. Got it out, now my question is, any chance it was supposed to be there? I think she's back the way she was intended now, but man. That's over 500 lbs in the stern now removed. Haven't made it up fwd. yet Ebb. Maybe tomorrow, if I can find a crane to hoist me out of bed.
Here's a little photo of the fun today:rolleyes:
Maybe I better holler for Jr. to help get it out.
More cleaning. nice stuff down there. Nice sump too--finally!
Anyone need some extra lead???:p
The two lead pigs in #76 were trapezoidal in shape. Not rectangle. The lifting rings were iron (might have originally been galvanized). Total weight added by Pearson was 200 lbs, but the pigs were not necessarily of equal weight. Just small enough to be R&R’d through the middle or aft opening in the sole.
In the early years, some skippers added more lead to the boat. In some cases, this was to fudge a rule by glassing in extra lead just aft of the marine head (160 pounds in #76) to change the water line. Interestingly, this added weight makes the boat more stable, but does adversely affect boat speed versus Ariels without the added weight.
All of it so far has been under the cockpit. I don't see anything up under the sole fwd., other than the two lifting rings for encapsulated factory chunk. What, the specs. say 2300 lbs? I would think that would do it. I hate to think of what would have happened out in the blue in a roll over. This added 500 lbs. would have really caused some damage.It was just put in the bilge, and some cement poured over it, almost up to the aft lifting ring, up to a couple inches under the sole. She sure has a bilge now!! And I'm sure will sail like a dream. :cool:
Ariel #3 has a pair of lead pigs just behind the glassed-in ballast.
I have often though about taking them out, since I rarely have the water tank full, and it would sure be nice to have the boat sit closer to her Design W.L.
Willie: is that a lag screw in the lead pig? it is so shiny, it must have been put in by you for the purpose of taking out the pig. what size lag screw/eye bolt did you use? and did you put the bolt into the top or the side? (i.e. which end is the top in your picture?)
KM-
Yes, I put in the lag eye for something to get ahold of. (In the top)It's just what I found laying around out in the shop. You could use about anything. Lead is pretty easy to drill into, in fact the bit really grabs ahold and wants to go in pretty deep. Once the chunk is up out of the sump it's no problem, but it's hard to get ahold of down in the hole, standing on yer head, with a bum shoulder too!
Now that I have a bilge, guess I better get to cleaning, then do an epoxy barrier coat. I drilled holes so the ballast cavity could drain also, and will be adding some resin in there.