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#8281
Main Message Board / surveyor at fault? HELP!
January 17, 2005, 09:15:34 AM
FYI, this thread started some time earlier and can be found at:

 :arrow:     http://www.c34.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1896
#8282
Main Message Board / New Boat Ideas
January 16, 2005, 08:26:20 PM
Take very single stainless steel screw on your boat that is screwed into a dissimilar surface and back it out, coat it with Lanacote, and reinsert.  It'll save you hours of &*%$%@#$&**&^%#$@#!!!! in the future.  This includes boom end fittings, block mounts and deck organizer bolts.  Newer boats may not have as many as we older boats do, but find 'em and fix 'em before they make you work 18 hours on a 1 hour project later on.

In a humorous vein  :D , please read this earlier thread:

http://www.c34.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=93&highlight=kennedy
#8283
Main Message Board / Racing C34
January 09, 2005, 07:57:55 PM
Mark

We have an "oldie-but-goodie" hull #224, 1986.  We raced on SF Bay for 2 1/2 years and had a lot of fun.  We "retired" this year only because the mainsail was off the boat for cleaning and refurbishing.

Hulls #8 and #214 also race here.  Bill Eddy on Casino, #214, won the last winter series if I remember correctly.

The C34 is great to sail in races.  As you may know, we have enough C34s here to have our own class in midwinters and summer series sponsored by YRA.

Have a great season.
#8284
Kerk

I would suggest that you stop and take a deep breath.

You have a new-to-you boat and a potentially serious problem, based, however, on only one input, and that from a questionable source.

Paul's input is very valid.  Unfortunately, many of the marine surveyors south-of-the-border may not be, possibly, as reputable or thorough as Paul.  

As with all important issues, why not, in addition to your questions here, get a second opinion?

With your post here you HAD to give us the background.  When you get a second opinion from another surveyor on your boat, DON'T tell him the long story, just ask his opinion on the condition of your boat.  And it may not be a surveyor, you may have to look up a local "blister doctor."  Boatyards would like for you to spend money.  Ya just gotta look around.

Finally, do a search on this 'site on blisters if you haven't already.  In my six and a half years of activity here we haven't seen anyone sink yet, nor have reports about serious structural problems with C34s.  Valiants in the late 70s had a horrible blister problem.  Ours have usually been cosmetic.

Good luck.

PS  please post your hull #, year, location, etc on your signature so we can better help you.  Just edit your signature.  Thanks.
#8285
Main Message Board / Galley leak?
January 07, 2005, 10:22:37 AM
John

We need your hull #.  The newer boats have a different engine mounting configuration.  The "new hole" referred to above is covered, with a picture, in FAQs.  The older boats had a hole in the front of the depressed pan underneath the oil pan, NOT in the aft end near the transmission.  Two separate things.
#8286
Main Message Board / Always Something New (leak)
January 06, 2005, 01:43:13 PM
John

The nice part about this forum is that there's always something new.   :thumb:

Thanks for your post.  Let us know how it turns out.
#8287
Main Message Board / Galley leak?
January 06, 2005, 10:43:45 AM
John

That area is way above the level of the bilge.  There shouldn't be any water there (OK, you know that already  :wink: ), but it "can't" be coming from the stuffing box OR the bilge because water just doesn't go uphill very well.  Also, if you take the teak and holly sole in the galley area off, you'll see a complete fiberglass pan.  

Ed's approach seems the most reasonable, that something from the level of the basic engine bed, on the sides of the engine (not the depression below the engine oil pan) is leaking out underneath the lower section of the companionway steps.

Only other thing I can think of is that your shower sump is full and was not pumped out.  If you sail on a port tack for awhile, the water comes out and runs across the galley, but you only notice it when you're back on a starboard tack.  This, however, wouldn't account for it being saltwater, unless your shower hose vented loop is blocked, your through hull is open and salt water is siphoning back into your shower sump.  Could be, but it's a long shot.

PS  Please add your hull # to your signature, so we can better help you with our answers.  Thanks.
#8288
Main Message Board / Exhaust elbow gasket
January 05, 2005, 06:13:18 PM
Roc,

Is it the green gasket between the manifold and the exhaust riser?

If so, replace it.  Why mess with a "single point of failure?"

It's a $1.83 item in a $7,586 system.
#8289
Main Message Board / Water Treatment
January 05, 2005, 06:09:45 PM
I enthusiastically recommend Peggie Hall's book, "Boat Odors," or something really enticing like that.  It's available on www.catalinaowners.com, or elsewhere.  We posted her head story on the FAQs years ago, and it is still available.  

Her book is the best and probably the only comprehensive guide to water and sewage (dare I say THAT? yuck... :roll: ) on boats.

Check the FAQs on the main C34 website, because some of that may already be there.  If not, buy the book.
#8290
Main Message Board / Thread Direction
January 03, 2005, 06:17:32 PM
I've always had this question.  When we were working on our rigging we had to do a lot of fussing with the turnbuckles.  Remember, some of those are reverse thread, like each one, since they have to go in opposite directions to make the turnbuckle looser or tighter, right?

Here's the way we find out which way to turn the nut:

When looking straight down (or, if vertical like a turnbuckle, straight at it), see which way the threads on the bolt or shaft go.  

They have to go at an angle, either down or up, left or right.

Then imagine the side of the nut or turnbuckle or locking nut turning the way the threads MOVE AWAY FROM THE BASE OF THE NUT.

Turn the (top of the) nut (closest to YOU) in that direction to LOOSEN.

Think of the threads as railroad tracks and follow how they go.

Hope I've added to the complexity of this lovely topic.   :roll:
#8291
Main Message Board / Sole Solution
January 03, 2005, 06:10:01 PM
Jeff

Nice job, and good luck with the millwright.

I recommend that when you complete your pictures and story, send them to Mark Elkin our Projects associate webmaster.  He can take your material and post it on the Projects page.  The pictures will come out better and will always be there for folks to see, where this board (while continuous back on its 63 or so pages and always always available by scrolling/clicking/searching) only shows the last month's material when it pops up.

Happy dancing on your new sole.   :thumb:
#8292
Main Message Board / Shaft packing nuts
January 03, 2005, 10:27:14 AM
Jack,

I bought both a fixed and adjustable wrench.  One to hold stuffing box and the other to move the lock nut.  The fixed one is pretty useless, and you only need to move the lock nut back.  I use the adjustable wrench for that.  I put plenty of Lanacote on the facings between the two nuts so I can almost move the lock nut by hand at any time, but make sure it's snug.  Once you've spent the time trying to break them apart, you'll want to keep them clean and moveable.
#8293
Main Message Board / Niche Market
January 01, 2005, 08:37:11 AM
Mike

Great idea!

It might even be easier than that:  most of the soles do NOT wear in the forward cabin / V berth, aft cabin, under the saloon table and under the nav station.

Sooo, we're looking at maybe two to five pieces:  the galley, the long runner in the saloon and the three over the bilge.

Sure would be a winner to start pumping those out!   :clap

Could probably get three boat's worth out of one 4x8...
#8294
Main Message Board / Trouble searching the site??
December 30, 2004, 11:34:28 AM
Brad

A number of us have stumbled over this problem in the past few days.  I've sent an email to our webmaster and he's working on it.  So it's a system thing, not your computer.
#8295
Main Message Board / Wing Keel Draft
December 26, 2004, 03:01:25 PM
My understanding was always that the difference in draft was from horizontal to heeled.  A flat wing keel will be deeper when the boat is heeled and sailing.

Recent posts have indicated that the [flat - un-heeled] draft was deepened on later models by the factory.

Just a joke: is 5 inches gonna make a big difference?  :D