I'm the new caretaker of Ariel-109

[Ariel 109]

I haven't posted any pictures of Ariel 109 Noesis' cabin interior before. The original Pearson dinette table came with the boat. Do any of you guys also have one of these? I'm going to try and paint the interior sometime this summer. But I'm keeping the wood-grained tacky Formica intact, I kind of like it. And I also like the Ariel's tabletop Formica pattern, I had it spec for a job at work, oh well.

[mbd]

Original? That's the first one I've seen. Looks like it attaches to the bulkhead? A cabin/cockpit table has been on my to-do list for some time but continuously gets superseded.

[Ariel 109]

Mike,

The dinette table does attach to two metal clips mounted on the bulkhead door's frame and is supported by a hinged teak leg that locks into the cabin sole. I'm pretty sure it's original to the boat. Pearson did offer a table on it's list of optional equipment, price $55.00. And it uses the same teak moulding and tabletop laminates as the rest of the boat. It's kind of an big awkward object to have to stow down below, I need to come up with a solution besides tossing it overboard.

http://www.pearsonariel.org/document/Fact2.htm

I also have these port screens. Pearson sold them for $4.00 each. I don't know if these are that rare. One day when 109's vee-berth ports actual open these may come in handy.

Ben

[Ariel 109]

I made this mooring anchor for the Ariel out of TIG welded steel last night. Still need to fill the bowl with concrete and metal scrap. I formed the bowl out of 11ga. flat sheet on my coveted Eckold Kraftformer using a doming head. And the rest is solid steel rod and some flat. I think when it's done it should weigh over 200 lbs., pictured it weighs a little over 100 lbs.. My intention is to use this mooring anchor for only a season or two, the next one will be stainless!

[mbd]

Ben, first off, I am very impressed with yours and others' on the forum abilities and ingenuity. That mooring looks great.

Now to my point, I don't know how exposed you are, but I have a 250lb mushroom mooring and dragged on a couple of occasions until my mooring guy put on an additional 15' of extra heavy mooring chain. So you may be right on the edge of what you need to keep the boat in place. Food for thought. (BTW, I thought I was buying a 300lb mushroom, according to the previous owner and his paperwork!)

[Ariel 109]

Thanks for the advice Mike, I'm using a heavy bottom chain on the mooring.

I poured the concrete last night and took the mushroom up to City Island this morning. I think my mushroom weighs only about 170 lbs. currently. To get the weight up I'm going to cut up one of the external ballast I took from the Ariel's keel and wrap the lead chunks with cable ties around the bottom of mushroom's post. The mooring's position is really well protected from weather and the bottom is all soft mud. The mushroom should sink deep in the mud pretty quickly. We're going to set it Saturday morning.

[Ariel 109]

Back on the mooring. Pretty exciting morning, assembling and setting the new mooring, and towing out and tying up the Ariel. Here we go again!

[Ariel 109]

Took my sister in-law Figgy, visiting from Colorado, up to see the Ariel out on it's mooring at City Island. She took these nice pictures. The first is of me rowing passed our local lobster boat the mighty Scungi, man can they kick up a wake!



Here's a new addition to the neighborhood, an old wood Rhodes designed sloop. It's mast looks like it lost some height. School teacher living aboard, good for him!



Me putting on the Ariel's mainsail. Still have to finish painting the deck. Hans' Ensign floats in the background.

[Ariel 109]

Racing my friend Hans in his Ensign early this morning on Eastchester Bay. He's gotten his Ensign sailing nice and fast these days in spite of his battens falling out of their pockets in the video. I'm going to have to move my genoa tracks forward to reduced my weather helm so I can keep up with him.

[Ariel 109]

Here's a video taken of Ariel Noesis from the Ensign Passion. I think from this clip you can see the slack leech on my genoa.

[Ariel 109]

Moved the genoa tracks forward on Noesis this morning. Went sailing afterward in a stiff morning breeze, having a great time. The new lead positions gave the genoa a beautiful shape, no more slack leech. The boat was faster and the tiller pressure felt reduced.

Another video from this morining! Still haven't finished painting the deck.

[Commander 147]

Nice video Ben

It's things like that that keep me motivated to get Destiny completed. Thanks to friends I get to sail about once a month lately but it just isn't like sailing your own boat.

Thanks for posting the video.

[Ariel 109]

After the work procuring a spinnaker pole, running a new halyard, topping lift, foreguy and sheets for Ariel 109 Noesis we finally flew the chute. Glorious, I think this was the first time 109 has every carried aloft this sail.

[Ariel 109]

Dove the Ariel this past weekend and scraped the mussels and barnacles off her bottom. The accumulation wasn't too bad, I have been scrubbing the hull with a brush on a long pole. Afterward I finished the job with a Scotch Bright pad. I should have done this before, the bottom cleaning along with the repositioning forward of the Ariel's genoa tracks have elimination my weather helm complaints. The boat is now a pleasure to sail even as the winds pick up into the higher teens.

Urban Commander? Spotted this Commander floating in Newtown Creek, an estuary of the East River that runs between Brooklyn in Queens near my home. I don't think it's been moved in several years.

[Bill]

Urban Commander? Spotted this Commander floating in Newtown Creek, an estuary of the East River that runs between Brooklyn in Queens near my home. I don't think it's been moved in several years.

Any chance you could get the hull and reg numbers? Then we can see if she's in the registry or a "new" boat . .

Bill