Congrats Bill, and well done! 3 weeks to launch up here, and way too much to do!Originally Posted by bill@ariel231
Congrats Bill, and well done! 3 weeks to launch up here, and way too much to do!
Mike
Totoro (Sea Sprite 23 #626)
Thanks Mike..
hope we see some pictures of Sea Glass soon. This should be an easy pre-season for A-414 with new decks and hardware installed last year.
cheers
bill@ariel231
Last edited by bill@ariel231; 04-25-2008 at 06:23 AM.
Heh! I've calculated my weekend days to launch, and I'm down to 6 (-2 for Mom's Day and a Red Sox game). BTW, someone should switch Father's and Mother's Day so Dads can work guilt-free on their boats during "their day"...
Anyway, that leaves only 4 days between birthday parties, swimming lessons, yard work and whatever else may come up to deter my commissioning. Yikes!
BTW, how do you clean your non-skid?
Mike
Totoro (Sea Sprite 23 #626)
your plate's full... have fun at Fenway!
i've found the non-skid cleans up with boat soap and aggressive scrubbing with a brush.
Last edited by bill@ariel231; 04-25-2008 at 06:59 AM.
sorry to see the season ended with only a hand full of trips this year...
time to get the cover installed...
first is the frame (mostly 1/2" pvc conduit)...
Last edited by bill@ariel231; 12-12-2008 at 07:22 PM.
then the canvas...
Last edited by bill@ariel231; 11-15-2008 at 12:19 PM.
hopefully it will stay nice and dry on the inside...
plenty of time over the winter to start on projects like a more elegant rail bracket for the radar pole ...
Last edited by bill@ariel231; 11-15-2008 at 12:12 PM.
Bill,
Have you detailed how your cover is built and fastened elsewhere? If you haven't I'd appreciate it if you would. Nice work.
no problem. The bulk of the canvas is a 16'x20' rectangle modified with a 9' cut on the centerline. The white strip sewn into the cut is a length of old sail cloth stitched in to add a line of grommets. Amidship, both sides have three 16" slots sewn in to the cover to clear the standing rigging. The other pieces of canvas are a 12x12 and a 12x16 that overlap on the boom and cover the cockpit to the stern.
the frame material consists of 1/2" schedule 40 pvc conduit (sold in 10' lengths). The hoops bent in place and insert into the stanchion sockets on the deck (each is 8-10 foot and are cut to allow for contact with the ridge pole (aka the boom and an 10' length of 1.5" conduit over the fore deck). for my boat there are three hoops cut to fit the stanchion sockets and two more secured to the pulpit and stern rails. The four fore-aft lengths are each glued up to a length of 25'. These are secured to the hoops with wire ties during assembly and lashed in place once the frame is assembled.
Last edited by bill@ariel231; 12-12-2008 at 07:23 PM.
We finally got Periwinkle off the dock last weekend. Still plenty of spring projects to finish. That clump of trees to starboard is "Mount Hope", I don't know why it got that name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hope,_(Rhode_Island)), the highest point in the state is Jerimoth Hill (about 800' higher).
Last edited by bill@ariel231; 06-03-2009 at 05:30 AM.
good grief i has been a while since we posted anything on periwinkle. so some pictures from our last couple trips off the dock are in order.
A couple weekends back, Alyce and I were amused when we crossed paths with neighboors from the marina in their CD28.
Last edited by bill@ariel231; 08-22-2011 at 07:36 PM.
i've been told it that when two or more boats are gathered you have a race .
so out with the reef....
Last edited by bill@ariel231; 08-22-2011 at 07:15 PM.
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