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Com-Pac Sailors Lounge / Re: How can you tell if two sa...
Last post by Urban Hermit - Today at 07:04:06 PMQuote from: soilgod on March 31, 2025, 08:49:07 PMyes Urban, any 2 sailboats in close proximity are racing. And both are commenting on the others sail trim. The winner is the craft that gets upwind and blankets the wind of the loser. Time to pop a cold one. LOL
<another chuckle> Definitely commenting on the other's sail trim.
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Com-Pac Sailors Lounge / Re: How can you tell if two sa...
Last post by Urban Hermit - Today at 07:03:14 PMQuote from: Jim in TC on March 31, 2025, 08:52:46 AMMy sailing dictionary defines racing as a "popular nautical contact sport."
<chuckle>
#3
Eclipse / Securing boat for travel
Last post by Fastdoc98 - Today at 01:02:02 PMSo, my usual method for trailering my Eclipse to any destination is to secure the headsail to the mast with multiple bungee ties, secure the back of the mast to the arch, tie down the end of the boom to the arch. The rigging gets pulled forward and a big bungee ties it to the base of the mast up front and the excess gets bungeed to the aft part of the pulpit. I managed to rattle the mast crutch enough to snap a tab on the hinge trailering to Door County one year. I met a fella with an Eclipse I almost bought who made his headsail into a big round bow and stored it in the cabin. I've also seen people attach it along the gunwale, bungeed to pulpit and pushpit. What is the best/preferred method you guys use? I think the weight of the jib rattling around over-stresses the mast crutch, but I'm not sure how else to stow it for trailering.
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Sun Cats and Sunday Cats / Re: Access to fuel locker pipe
Last post by dbybe - Today at 11:20:29 AMQuote from: bruce on Today at 06:50:47 AMHuge effort, Don, but you've found your leak!
I think I'm seeing the back of the cockpit on the left, with the cast fiberglass pipe stub, and the flat transom on the right (no fitting). Once the cockpit was slid in place, someone with skinny arms tried to glass the pipe stub to the transom. The glass sagged at the top and bottom (of the photo), and tore on the top side that is visible likely sometime later. I can't make out if a piece of pipe ran from the transom up into the pipe stub, but the glass doesn't look like it was supported by anything when laid up.
The gap between the cockpit and transom looks to be about 1 1/2"-2". Can you access the pipe stub from the cockpit interior? I assume you can from the transom exterior. I would consider making water tight connections there, with a continuous pipe running between them, with screw threads or tightly sleeved pipes and caulk, and bypass this mess. There are lots of bulkhead tank fittings that might help.
Sounds like you understand the picture pretty well.
I can access each end of this area, but the end within the fuel locker is hard to reach. Presently I have a plastic sleeve through this area. I tried to seal it at each end, but it was still leaking. In hindsight I should have worked a little more to make that work. Since I have this area open, and a sleeve in place, I will probably do both. First though I will flood this area to confirm where it is leaking.
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Sun Cats and Sunday Cats / Re: Access to fuel locker pipe
Last post by bruce - Today at 06:50:47 AMHuge effort, Don, but you've found your leak!
I think I'm seeing the back of the cockpit on the left, with the cast fiberglass pipe stub, and the flat transom on the right (no fitting). Once the cockpit was slid in place, someone with skinny arms tried to glass the pipe stub to the transom. The glass sagged at the top and bottom (of the photo), and tore on the top side that is visible likely sometime later. I can't make out if a piece of pipe ran from the transom up into the pipe stub, but the glass doesn't look like it was supported by anything when laid up.
The gap between the cockpit and transom looks to be about 1 1/2"-2". Can you access the pipe stub from the cockpit interior? I assume you can from the transom exterior. I would consider making water tight connections there, with a continuous pipe running between them, with screw threads or tightly sleeved pipes and caulk, and bypass this mess. There are lots of bulkhead tank fittings that might help.
I think I'm seeing the back of the cockpit on the left, with the cast fiberglass pipe stub, and the flat transom on the right (no fitting). Once the cockpit was slid in place, someone with skinny arms tried to glass the pipe stub to the transom. The glass sagged at the top and bottom (of the photo), and tore on the top side that is visible likely sometime later. I can't make out if a piece of pipe ran from the transom up into the pipe stub, but the glass doesn't look like it was supported by anything when laid up.
The gap between the cockpit and transom looks to be about 1 1/2"-2". Can you access the pipe stub from the cockpit interior? I assume you can from the transom exterior. I would consider making water tight connections there, with a continuous pipe running between them, with screw threads or tightly sleeved pipes and caulk, and bypass this mess. There are lots of bulkhead tank fittings that might help.
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Sun Cats and Sunday Cats / Re: Access to fuel locker pipe
Last post by dbybe - Yesterday at 08:58:02 PMA couple more photos of Krud Kutter. This helped soften the sealant a bit, but it still takes a lot of elbow grease.
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Sun Cats and Sunday Cats / Re: Access to fuel locker pipe
Last post by dbybe - Yesterday at 08:55:29 PMI am posting some photos of my work today on the tiller "horn". What a job. My hands are going to hurt tomorrow. As you can see the short tube between the fuel locker and transom has very odd glass work. The view is from above so it is almost as if it was glasses while this was upside down. I am assuming the leak is at the sleeved pipe but will test it before I proceed. In hindsight, I would probably work harder at coming up with a solution that did not require removing the "horn". (Though I had already tried a couple of solutions). If you are trying this, remember the stern of the "horn" is also sealed to the transom. A long sharp fillet knife worked to separate those. I can feel the pipe but cannot get my head in there to see it. I will have to work blind to seal it up better.
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Group Outings and Com-pac Events / Re: reservations for CLR marin...
Last post by crazycarl - Yesterday at 01:09:19 PMOur reservations have been made and paid for. We'll arrive and launch June 16th, and pull the boat Friday June 20th. Cost is $104. including a 4% charge for using the credit card. I mentioned we will be with the Compac group. Here is a link to West Access Marina's site.
https://dwphome.com/
https://dwphome.com/
#9
Group Outings and Com-pac Events / Re: reservations for CLR marin...
Last post by alsantini - Yesterday at 08:12:09 AMI have a call in to them. Once I am registered, I will let you know. Looking forward to it. Try to have good weather for sailing. LOL Sail On, Al
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Sun Cats and Sunday Cats / Re: Access to fuel locker pipe
Last post by bruce - April 01, 2025, 11:48:32 AMYeah, Dick Blick would have something. With all the sideways force, I'm amazed my handle still holds up. Being riveted to the handle would be better.