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looks great. Reminds me of I similar little boat I sailed on once when I was France. Similar rig. You should have lots of fun with it.

This spring I bought a refurbished 36# MinKota from Cabela's (which has 250,000 sq. ft. store 20 miles west of my parent's home in Allentown) for $99 (I think). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to use it yet. You will probably have to reregister your boat if you're adding a motor. I have the fresh water type and I can return it. How much of a difference is there between the salt and fresh water models? What if I were to use motor in brakish or salt water? What if I were to modify it like the Stevensons did on this following web site: http://www.stevproj.com/EMotorIdeas.html which I intend to do eventually?

wow! Way to look before weighing anchor! Where was that?

Also need to put a stopper on the end to prevent it from flying off on the highway during transport and to create a good transition from the bulkhead part of the hatch to the cabin roof sliding hatch. Right now, as you can see, there is a gap and one of the peices holding in the bulkhead portion is missing. Once I find that and reinstall it I will add the other LED cockpit light (as seen in the following picture).

wow! looks great. beautiful restoration

everything is looking very good

I think this is a neat looking hatch. My only concern is how much does the system weigh? Did it change the boat's balance any? What is PL Premium? I am not familiar with that glue. The hatch does weigh a lot, I really couldn't put a number on how much. I'd say more than 10 pounds, but I really have no idea, next time I am in Allentown (where my boat is right now), I'll check how much the hatch is since I do need to rebalance my boat. The batteries and anchor in the forepeak has put my center of gravity too far foreword without a larger crew. I'm not sure on how much it threw off the balance, certainly not more than my batteries. The 3/4" thick oak is also a bit heavy big for the application. You could easily do something sufficiently strong with something 1/2" and in a lighter wood (cedar is good for both its resistance to decay and its low density if you're looking for lightweight). PL Premium is a construction adhesive sold at Home Depot and a number of other places. It is sold in tube canisters like caulk. It is not the best for brightwork like hatches because it when gets everywhere it's tough to get out and it dries hard in a really ugly brown color and it can have a bubbly texture. More information on it in boating applications can be found at this site: http://www.simplicityboats.com/pl_premium.htm. I haven't had any trouble with it besides getting it off of things. In retrospect I should have used it more on my boat than I actually did.

Found a picture of the hatch in action from last week. I still have to attach the bottom of the inside track pieces and figure out what I am doing to the back of the hatch. It slides pretty easily from head on but is tough to do it from an angle. It's red oak encapsulated in epoxy and with varnish over that. It was glued together using PL premium. Red Oak is not the best choice, but the wood was free and I already had some oak on the boat, so it made sense at the time.

Those hatch drawings and pictures, except for the second one which is Barry's, are from the hatch I made Fall 2003 for my Weekender. I should be able to find some pictures that I could post of it actually being attached to the boat. The slide works pretty well. I am still trying to figure out if I am going to have to build a turtle hatch shell to keep water out of the cabin, since it can get in from the back and I need to make a new connection with the vertical part of the companionway. Just one of the many projects I have going for this Spring.

I think the Irving Johnson and her sister ship were featured in a Wooden Boat article sometime last year. I saw some footage of the wreck last night with a rather stern TV anchor reporting on the scene about the seriousness of the situation while one of the crew members was dancing wildly just behind him. Needless to say it was an amusing picture. They are sending the new floatation equipment by barge! That seems awfully slow mode for such an urgent situation.

It looks like two trailers stacked and opposing each other.

You probably also could slightly slim the deck and make the seats less deep and further out. I also would be careful with steering, I set it up completely working before you put your sides on or add access ports to the lazarette hatch. I'm trying to complete redo mine this week. As its a light boat, when you sail pay attention to balence. It's important. There's a few other things that are more of issues with my choices. Be sure to use a good glue and the easy to maintain wood.

It looks like their course could use a new golf architect. You can't put a Helipad that close to the green!

It's the new Stevenson 2-in-1 Monther.

Welcome! How far exactly is 85%? I assume that mean's the hull is assembled. Fiberglassed? Painted? Don't be afraid to post questions, there are a lot of useful resources and friendly people willing to help here.

I've changed the link to another site, without any pop-ups, sorry about the first link having pop-ups.

No Albatross post is complete without a link to Coleridge's "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Rime_Ancient_Mariner.html Plot: Sailor kills Albatross and is haunted for the rest of his life, forced to retell his tail to people at Weddings.

36th Annual Sailboat Show Annapolis City Dock and Harbor Annapolis, Maryland Oct. 6 - 10, 2005

A train set! I've had a lot of fun with those. As soon as I get the space (probably a decade away), I may set it up again.

Do you plan on having the boat done by the time you reach Cape Cod? It can be done! Here's a picture of mine in a bay of the Ocean side of the Cape. Just don't be afraid to ask questions. When you get stalled, don't hesitate to post, otherwise you lose momentum. Happy building.

I have two car batteries in the forepeak (which now seems to have too much weight). They run to a battery switch and then a fuse box with switchs, a voltmeter, and a 12v outlet (cigarette lighter kind). I have a cabin light that was a car dome light I bought at A&A Auto, a light in the cockpit just below the wheel, and a light on the stern above the tiller. Right now I have a 'C-clamp' battery powered bow lights attached to the bowspirit. I'll eventually replace that. For anchor light I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Hopefully Santa is going to bring auxillary power to the boat this Christmas (fat chance). The red night cabin light is a great idea, I might just have to use that one.

Work and finals in Physics, Calculus, and Chemistry are keeping me busy this week. Plus I have to go back to Allentown for the next two weeks and I have to Christmas shop.

On the topic of shipping disasters, this happened a few weeks ago about a mile south of where I go sailing now with Drexel: PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ The Coast Guard on Thursday hauled up the submerged pipe it believes pierced the hull of an oil tanker in the Delaware River, causing an oil spill that has disrupted shipping, killed wildlife and covered more than 100 miles of shoreline with sticky black crude. The 15-foot-long pipe was about 700 feet offshore from the Citgo Petroleum Corp. refinery in Paulsboro, N.J. With a diameter of between three and four feet, the U-shaped cast iron tube was big enough to tear a six-foot gash in the hull of the Athos I as it was being maneuvered toward the refinery Nov. 26. Citgo has said that it had 25 ships with a draft as deep as the Athos I sail over the same spot since January, and none reported any problems. Citgo officials said the pipe doesn't appear to resemble anything the company uses to move oil. The pipe was taken to a Coast Guard facility in Philadelphia for further analysis, Coast Guard spokeswoman Kimberly Smith said. As of Thursday, workers had collected 994,360 pounds of oily solids and 14,791 gallons of oil and water mix. Nearly 22 miles of floating boom has been strung to keep the oil from moving into unaffected areas. Rescuers have captured 132 birds, and successfully cleaned 117 of them. The total shoreline impacted by Thursday was 107 miles, up from 86 miles Wednesday, most of it a very light oiling, officials said. The accident spilled as much as 470,000 gallons of thick crude oil into the river. I haven't been down to see the river since before it happened so I can't comment on it personally. The accident occured a few miles downsteam of Philadelphia, past its airport.

wow, that's terrible. It's very hard to picture one of those masive cargo ships breaking in two. Where was the ship coming from?

Wow! That sure is a nice cove you've got. Sure beats the giant tarp I've been using which has developed a rip from the mast tabernacle (through no fault but my own, it looks like you even reenforced that area!). And now I no longer live where my boat is so I have to rely on others to check it. Those tie downs are very necsessary to keep water and snow out, last winter my father knocked off some ice that was building up and it broke the trailer's tail-light.