I find preserving the integrity of the engine alignment and height well worth extra effort of glassing inside the structure. I have gallons of...
interior of the faux stringer Solid fiberglass 3/4" to 7/8" where the bolts are. Bolts are not tapped into or backed by any metal, or even...
OK. just looked. No metal [EDIT: in the faux stringer where the engine mount bolts pass through]. Only fiberglass. The bolts didn't even have...
Thanks MIA Yes. GREAT POINT!!! Little engine. I can lift it myself. Most Nor'Sea27 owners have, and I will, replaced it with a Beta 20 or Beta...
Thanks for that idea. I think if i was going to fix-n-flip the boat I would do just that or just glass in wood timbers with a layer of stainless...
Thanks Bajansailor, I did not look at it that way, but yes. a "deep angle bar" profile of fiberglass with "tripping brackets"is a good...
Having often worked on old boats with lagbolts screwed into wet soggy glassed in lumber stringers as engine beds, I found this fiberglass engine...
Thanks, I did find the old webmaster and he claimed the backups were too corrupt to be of use. I had spent years beefing up the "designer"...
Thanks Nick, but the last time Archive.org captured that site was in 2010. I see only 24 or so threads. There should have been 4 or 5 pages of...
I was sad to see metalboatbuilding.org's website is down and the URL forwards to some domain name stealer. I spend many hours each week reading...
I give up. My snail mail attempts to contact possible family of Dufour in that part of Canada have failed. I have not found any Ibold's designs...
Thanks for the replies. I had family visits for a week then field research for a week and had no internet. pdwiley, i agree with everything you...
TANSL, Thanks for the offer to help, I will send a Personal Message shortly. PDWILEY, you said: "Why bother? " I really do not feel this cost...
No... i am asking for the cutting lenghts of various designs. No. I am not looking for info on the watercutter speeds. I have that. AND I can...
I am very lucky to have married into a family with a very large CNC watercutter and plasma cutter. It would have been better to marry into enough...
Please keep me posted on your plans, if you fix up Coralita or buy a different boat. I too am faced with that economic question. It would be...
Thanks for the pdf of that article. If you find anything else please post it. Certainly you have pics of yours.
Pilot House: glass houses sink ships Fiberglass battens over the glass is a strong solution given the space it takes up when stored. I agree....
I agree, I like galleys up top for the reasons you say and then some. Yeah, births normally became the place i bunjie chord duffle bags of gear.
Sailing teaches kids and young adults so much about life and work ethics and math.... I sure hoe it works out for you. I just last year spent a...
