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Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Initially Posted - 04/28/2007 : 20:39:36

My fleet is getting to be like Al Gore's mansion... I now have Honda's largest (225hp V6--the engine from the Pilot SUV), a midrange (50hp 3-cylinder), and their smallest (air-cooled 2hp 4-stroke) for my Achilles--the latter engine having been added today. I'm selling the 50 and the boat it's mounted on soon, so then I'll just have the two extremes.

It'll be hard to tell I used to be a sailor!

(Actually, I'll always be one! And on the water, I promise to behave like one.)

Association Port Captain, Mystic, CT
Past member and DPO of C-25 #5032
Now on Eastern 27 Sarge (but still sailing) and posting as "Stinkpotter".

Passage, Mystic, and Sarge--click to enlarge.

Edited by - Dave Bristle on 04/28/2007 20:41:15

dlucier
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Response Posted - 04/29/2007 : 06:55:41

Dave,

How come you didn't have two of those Honda V6's put on the transom of your new boat? With two motors on the transom and a flashing blue light on the roof, you could play Homeland Security, Border Patrol, or DNR!

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Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 04/29/2007 : 09:40:50

The difference is those guys seem to have UNLIMITED FUNDING!

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 05/02/2007 : 20:02:57

Honda, GOOD! Between the autopilot, fridge, electronics and the inverter powering laptop etc my consumption runs between 15-20A/h...(depending on sea state, ie how hard the autopilot works.) Honda feeds 70 AH battery charger. It sits away from the cokpit and is very unobtrusive. In about 2.5-3 hours it puts a days worth of juice in the bank, for less than a tank full.

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johnsonp
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Response Posted - 05/16/2007 : 14:22:50

Oscar
Where did you get those halyard line holders?
paulj

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 05/16/2007 : 14:34:36

I've been here about 10 years or so now - roughly since the fall of 97. It never ceases to amaze me at the thoroughness that this group looks at a picture.

"Where did you get those halyard line holders?"

Incidentally, I was hung up on the Jack Line - so I do it too...

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 05/17/2007 : 12:12:25

Halyard holders came with the boat, but similar doodads are out there.....

I have not been hung up on the jack line yet.....hope to keep it that way.....

Did anyone notice the sail condiguration.....

Jib to port, a-symmetrical to starboard. The spreaders are swept aft, the main hits the rigging at about 45 degrees boom out. When you do that for days, you are talking CHAFE.....plus the thing tends to slap when the boat rolls....sometimes the sail fully backwinds when the boom rools down, only to fill with the sound of a gun being fired....wakes me up.

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 05/17/2007 : 12:26:09

Go to your sailmaker or a sailmaker and have anything equivalent to a spreader patch. If they do it will extend the life of the sail immensely. I'm not sure if they would work against rigging, since you are dealing with a larger area, but you can't be the first guy with this issue. I'm sure they have to have something....

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 05/17/2007 : 12:27:37

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Oscar
 Did anyone notice the sail condiguration...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
I did--main furled, too... Thought maybe the one on starboard was a drifter. (Is there another pole on port?) Not knowing about your spreaders, I figured it just made for easier, safer meandering downwind--no preventer, no noisy jibes, etc. That's a nice use for a dual-track headfoil.

Now, why are you running the generator up on the leeward side-deck? ...and will the cord hold it when it falls in the drink?

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 05/17/2007 : 21:16:05

It's a dead run.....no leeward, just happened to be rolling to SB when the picture was taken. The generator is tied with a painter. Two poles, the jib on the furler, the a-symmetrical flying free. Main hits the uppers over many feet....chafes through at the full battens. Not worth the aggravation, and, the double jib setup is faster.

Edited by - Oscar on 05/17/2007 21:17:22

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