Ben , OK send me your shipping address to my e-mail psproesser@yahoo.com and I'll send it out I am truly Indebted for the help I'll send a money order for you to cover return shipping and BEER MONEY!!
Getting started on the bottom, On 4/2/12 monday am when we crossed the river wind was about 20-40 knots with gusts even higher and swells up to 5 ft. and real choppy , we had to go up river against it to get out far enough to turn east toward the bay and solomons Island to put the current and swells in our favor. There was one other boat out on the Patuxent that morning doing pretty good with storm jib and main up about a 30-35 foot sloop and while we were waiting to get pulled out we drove out for lunch to see the rescue squad with boat in tow and the state police chopper hovering over the river , Evidently one of those gusts of wind took them out and they had to be rescued . So occasionally we do get some tricky weather here which requires quick judgement and it always seem to come off the land from ssw.
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Paul, your varnish job is stunning. I have Ariel 205 which I've refurbed. My woodwork has been Cetol'd and it looks good but nothing like yours. How has your varnished wood held up thus far?
Without everyones input and suggestions and EXPERT GUIDANCE, I would've never been able to get this far. I saw something and took a chance and by finding all of you have strived to make this vessel all i can manage whith what I can manage, I hope I'm doin OK if not please step in , I want to make this boat a legacy to the designers and preserve it as long as I can.
Solomons island history, The fourth pic is an old chesapeake bay oyster boat and the fifth one is the bow of a huge old wooden schooner just rotting away in the yard but I bet she was beutiful in her day , I wonder how that bow sculpture would look on my boat ? haha.
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Nickel plated id plate. Thanks again Ben! The cost was the same for nickel as it was for chrome and i remember Ebb saying that nickel lasts longer and holds up better wish I could stick around long enough to see.
Last edited by paulsproesser; 05-11-2012 at 06:58 AM.
Acetone did nothing to this foam, The third picture is a void in the factory glasswork straight into the port side corner from the lazarette to behind the back of the cockpit locker
Last edited by paulsproesser; 05-11-2012 at 06:42 AM.
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