New owner, boat now in Geelong

[derekb]

Hi All,

I'm in the process of buying a very old C34, could be hull number 29, and she's in need of much TLC.

Currently located at Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, and after Christmas I'll be sailing her over to Geelong, where I'm a member at Royal Geelong.

Here she is after having anti-foul refreshed:


IMG_6123_resize by Derek Buckmaster, on Flickr

I've already trawled through many of the posts on the message board and in the tech Notes, what an amazing resource.

I'm looking forward to my first "Catalina summer", starting next week!

Regards,
Derek

[Bill Shreeves]

Congratulations and welcome aboard!

[DaveBMusik]

Congrats and Welcome!

[derekb]

And here's my first question...

Can anyone tell me what these lines on the foredeck are for? At first I thought a spinnaker pole down-haul, but now I'm not so sure...


IMG_5989_resize by Derek Buckmaster, on Flickr

Regards,
Derek

[britinusa]

Welcome Derek.

I'm guessing a local mod.

Q's for you: Is that a Keel Stepped mast, if so, it's the cleanest cabin top I've seen.

OBTW: My Sis lives in Tasi and other family in Perth.

Paul

[MarcZ]

Hello and Congratulations 

Where are all these lines go ?  top of the mast  ?  is it one line or 2 lines
Mast looks deck stepped , can you post more pics of the upper part showing the other end of the setup ?

Btw
I must say your cradle makes me nervous .... I don't see much support preventing boat form pitching aft or forward

[mark_53]

And here's my first question...

Can anyone tell me what these lines on the foredeck are for? At first I thought a spinnaker pole down-haul, but now I'm not so sure...

Not to be a smart a$$ but lines are used to connect one end of something to another.  Only you can tell us what each end is connected to.

[derekb]

OK, mystery solved, by further investigation and figuring...

The loose line through one of the blocks is indeed the spinnaker pole down-haul. It is cleated at the mast on one end and has a snap shackle at the other end.

The taught line through the other block turns out to be the spinnaker pole topping lift, but I have no idea why it leads through a block on the fore-deck. The block will shortly be removed and the topping lift routed in a more logical fashion!

MarcZ, I agree, the boat didn't look properly supported on that cradle. But that's how the yard manager did it, and all the boats in the yard were sitting in the same precarious fashion. It's back in the water now, was only out for 2 days for cleaning and anti-foul.

The mast is indeed deck-stepped.

Regards,
Derek

[Mas Tequila]

A very old boat? Hull # 29? Why that's a spring chicken. We have hull # 11  Congratulations on your new to you boat your going to love it. This site has been a tremendous resource for us and the people are just great.   

[scgunner]

     I knew the guy who had hull no. #1, the name of the boat was "Puffin".

[lucky]

I got hull #13

[Ben H.]

Congratulations!

[Ron Hill]

Derek : Congratulations, but What's on the transom?

[DaveBMusik]

Derek : Congratulations, but What's on the transom?

Propane tank is my guess

[Dave Spencer]

Certainly a propane tank on the pushpit rail but I think Ron was asking about what appears to be a fold down swim platform on the transom.  We'll look forward to some more pictures and a description of it from Australia.