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Wednesday, 26 April 2017

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Thursday, 6 April 2017

Brilliant and Encore Something Old and Something New



Although we were beset with very light air on Sunday, here's a shot of Encore motor-sailing past Brilliant at the entrance to Oyster Bay.
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New Paddling Partner Welcomed to the World


What a crazy last few days! I'm extremely excited and proud to announce that my wife gave birth to a healthy son on Sunday (Sept 28th) after a very rapid labour progression. The doctors were amazed at how quickly her labour advanced, especially for a first time mom....0 to full 10cm dilation & birth within 5 hours. Guess he was impatient...that's definitely from his mom's side.



So far he's been a quiet but very responsive little baby. He seems to actively observe and study people & the surrounding sounds. May be too early to tell yet, but he seems to be soothed when I softely whistle different birding calls especially the repetitive "po-tat-o chip, po-tat-o chip" call of the American Goldfinch and the "Oh Sweet Canada Canada Canada" call of the White Throated Sparrow. I'm hoping he'll equally enjoy these real bird sounds in a nature when he grows up a bit.

Welcome to our beautiful world, son!
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Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Sparkman Stephens New York Office Moves to Greenwich Connecticut



We are pleased to announce that after 82 years of continuous operation in New York City, our New York design and brokerage office has relocated to Greenwich, Connecticut, effective today.

Mention Greenwich, Connecticut, anywhere and chances are most people will have heard of it. It is the premier town along what is often referred to as the Connecticut Gold Coast. The town's unique beauty lies within its preservation of colonial history, with rolling hills, vast woodlands, sprawling meadows and picturesque shorelines. Access to Long Island Sound is by the idyllic Cos Cob Harbor, Smith Cove, Indian Harbor and Greenwich Harbor.

The town is home to many well-known artists, writers, actors and sports figures along with top to middle management corporate executives and leaders in the worlds of finance and communications. In addition, Greenwich Avenue is the epicenter of the finest collection of restaurants, rivaling those in Manhattan, and offers luxury shopping on what is sometimes referred to as the Rodeo Drive of the East.

Our principal motivation for the move is to be closer to the sailing communities and boat yards of Long Island Sound and New England and also where many of our clients spend their leisure time, rather than their working hours. It will also move us that much closer to our Newport, Rhode Island office.

Located only thirty miles from Manhattan, transportation is made simple via interstate 95, the Merritt Parkway, and Metro North Railroad. Express trains from New York City's Grand Central Terminal are 45 minutes in duration. For air travelers, Westchester County Airport is just minutes away. LaGuardia and JFK airports are also within easy reach.

Contact: Sparkman & Stephens
170 Mason Street
Greenwich, Ct 06830
Tel: +1 203 687 4700
Fax: +1 203 654 7138


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Monday, 27 March 2017

New York 32 Turns 75 Design 125



The 75th anniversary of the NY32 Class, design #125, will be celebrated this coming weekend with a dinner at the New York Yacht Club in Newport, Rhode Island. After winning a design competition from the New York Yacht Club for a new one-design class, 20 original boats were built by Nevins of City Island at a cost of $11,000 each.

As Olin once said "We set out to design a good cruiser/racer with good all-around form, guided by the lines of Dorade, Stormy Weather and Edlu, and emphasized seaworthiness rather than around-the-mark agility."

The following boats will be represented at the Newport dinner:
Apache, #2
Falcon, #6
Salty, #9
Isla, #10
Sapphire, #15
Night Heron, #16
Gentian, #18
Siren, #20
Masquerade, #21

Here are the plans.


Here's an early article from The Rudder magazine.


Principal Dimensions
LOA 45'-4"
LWL 32'-0"
Beam 10'-7"
Draft 6'-6"
Displacement 27,000 lbs
Ballast 12,000 lbs
Sail Area 950 sq ft



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Sunday, 19 March 2017

New Table Hand Saw


Here's a very nice tool I would love to add to my collection.


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Saturday, 18 March 2017

Luc Ps New Carvings


Blog reader & contributor, Luc Poitras has sent more pics in of his paddle creations...

Here's a set of sorts made from cedar. The two smaller ones were carved for his lucky grandson. The off-white coloured paddle is from spalted maple



Here's a beauty carved from Tamarack that Luc carved with just a crooked knife. Hoping I'll be able to source out a Tamarack log this summer and try to carve a similar one.


Lastly, Luc's wife found an old, 70" paddle at a garage sale. It looks to be a roughly carved blade meant for hard use. Luc mentioned it is likely birch but the paint and varnish job on the blade has really covered up the grain pattern.






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Hole of the week and Name that bad boat the new prime time game show


It's sweltering. The fan is roaring next to me, and I'm soaked to the bone in my own sweat. My arms are black and blue from the continual impacts against the sharp edges of a tiny access hole as I pull a cable. I think to myself, I shouldn't have enrolled in that marine installer's training school I saw advertised on that pack of matches. They promised me a glamorous and exciting career in marine technology. I should have drawn the picture of Blinky the clown, and gone to the "Famous Artist" school instead.


I'm just not happy. It's bad enough the working conditions are at times most odious, but the quality of the vessels I work on runs the gamut from fairly good, (never perfect) to lousy examples of design engineering, and implementation with the later predominating. Hearkening back to my very first posting, I made some rules, and set some journalistic standards, which I have maintained so far. 

The point of this blog is to relate my every day frustrations with trying to install a wide variety of marine electronics on boats of all sizes and types. It is hoped that boat builders will read these postings, have an epiphany, and make the small changes needed to make my life easier, and hence save some of my clients hard earned dollars. I am going to abide by the rule, that I will leave the offending boat builders names out of the blog, but you know who you are, and straighten up.


The rules were simple. Do no harm. Use only close up photographs if you were pointing out someone's less than perfect design work or implementation, and don't publish the offenders names. Using the close up photos would allow the builders to recognize their own work, but it would be very difficult for the average reader to know whose bad work it was. I may change my mind about all of this.

















Where do these stories come from? They are easy to find. Design and manufacturing malfeasance runs amok in the boating industry. The manufacturers don't seem to care, and often the buyers are clueless about what they're purchasing. Many are worrying more about the color of the hull, and stereo system, than what's actually inside of what they have purchased, and the downstream costs involved to maintain it.

I'm astounded at the excuses I hear from builders when I call them. One, when asked "Why won't the anchor locker design accommodate an anchor winch, and why does the anchor locker barely hold 150 of rode on a $250,000 fishing boat?" They said, "Where we live we pick up the anchor with the orange ball, and most fishermen troll." Great I think to myself, I have to tell the 70 year old owner that he has to reach over, and haul up not only the 40 lb anchor, but the large orange ball, and drag all of it into the boat along with the wet road, sort it all out, and stow it. Lets see, 7 to 1 scope, 150 feet of rode, let me think for a second, you can anchor safely in twenty feet of water on a windy day. Who are you kidding, you just didn't think about it, and not even a anchor bow pulpit, but the boat was colorful, and fast.

















How about a brand new sizable motor yacht with a large hardtop, and there is only one small pull through the starboard side arch. There is no way to use the other side, and when the owner wanted to mount a second VHF antenna on the other side, it took 8 hours, a bunch of disassembly, and two people to get a single VHF wire through the arch. The builders response, "Huh!, we never thought someone would want a second VHF on the boat." The one side that you could do a pull through just barely accepted the needed wiring, and thank goodness for NMEA 2000, which reduced the number of cables that needed to be pulled. My thought was it would have added about 30 minutes, or less to the manufacturing time to make the second arch usable. Do you own a hole saw? Nobody would want a second VHF? Really now? Seriously?

The excuses go on and on. "We didn't think anyone would put a radar on the boat." "Well our customers just prefer danforth anchors so that's what we designed the anchor locker to use." "Gosh did they foam that area closed?" "We didn't think the bilge pump would fail, you will just have to cut a hole in the bulkhead to get to it." "Sorry, but you have to remove the (insert your favorite piece of equipment here) fuel tank, water tank, hot water heater, engine manifolds, exhaust systems, isolation transformer........ to get to it." "Golly, we don't have any wiring diagrams, or construction drawings to send you, let me ask one of the old guys on the line how they did it." "We forgot to put in a wire pull? Sorry about that, and no you can't do a warranty claim about it." "They want to install a chart plotter in the console? Well I never."

Okay, I've griped enough, and you get my acrimonious  point. Few have listened to me, if any at all, and I suspect that it is because I don't call them out by name. Maybe if I included the make, year, and model of their boat in the story, they would pay closer attention to what is being said, or maybe they would sue me. What do you think? Angry wrathful Installer smiting the bad builders, or just stay a nice guy?

Oh yes, the hole of the week. The good news is there is a pull, the bad news is half of the hole is covered by a backing plate, and you couldn't get a human hair through the balance of the hole. WTF, how will I ever get a radar cable through that hole on this 2010 26' walk around made by.......

I should have drawn Blinky the clown, then I would just be writing about the sad state of modern art. Nope, not for me. Dealing with boats is like dancing the Tango, I love you, I hate you, I love you, I hate you. 

By the way, there are actually some good boats out there, and I will be talking about some of them very soon, and not in that boat test article sort of way about how pretty it is, and how fast it will go.

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South Africas new Hillman Imp


The idea is to make the car as new as we can, the entire car has now been re painted, that is underneath, inside and out.


We will receive the car by a specialist road trailer soon.


The car needs a nice clean with a wash leather then we are ready to start re fitting the shell, all the suspension is in place right now.

Roy


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Friday, 17 March 2017

A new Hillman Imp Timing Chain Tensioner


May 2014 and some two years since the repair shown below was tested in a 1963 Hillman Imp engine. We find the rub strip looked just as it is in the picture below but could be prised free with a screwdriver.

Please do not copy this attempt to re furbish the Imps timing chain tensioner parts, an update will follow once we have the correct grade of glue.

I say new but refurbished would be a better term?

Now we are into year 51 of the Hillman Imp motor car some parts are either hard to find or very expensive, both probably?

The engines timing chain tensioner fits that description exactly.


This is an old tensioner fitted with a South African anti friction pad, I did this in April 2013 for a 1963 Hillman Imp engine I was rebuilding.


The 1963 engine with the remade chain tensioner fitted. The engine has now run for many hours as a static motor on the bench top, no degrade of the tensioner was seen.

The suppliers of the friction pad and the special flexible epoxy were both involved with this idea, approval was given by both suppliers.

The last Rootes made tensioner  (on the right) was supplied to me by a company in the UK in 2011, the cost ex works was GBP42 then, that's about R756 right now, plus postage, import duty and local Vat of course.

The small friction pad on the left may be next to be remanufactured if there is enough response?

We now have a Timing Chain Tensioner export order and would be happy to have more!

The price? R385 ex works and with a replacement tensioner blade, that's GBP 22.00 or U$36 .00 depending on the exchange rate? payment with your Amex, Visa or Mastercard via Pay-Pal is acceptable


The old and the new, we need your old metal parts on and exchange basis.

Roy

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Monday, 13 March 2017

New electronics


Odin's new avionics panel (I mean, electronics!) on the test bench.  (And the Captain's first contribution to the blog!)

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Saturday, 11 March 2017

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Monday, 6 March 2017

New Guy in the Boat


P, an evening person by nature, arrives at the house at 6am.  And, we begin the portage.
Marsh Wren Nest
I met P, recently at a Smoke Farm event.  He had never been canoeing and, by chance, lived just a few blocks from me.  It was arranged.  The plan for a 6am start is to get to the water early enough to find beaver out swimming around.  It has always worked.  Today it doesn't.  We not only don't see the usual 6 or 8 that I might find as the evening feeding winds down, we don't see one.  We don't see one in the little lagoon that belongs to the Workbench Lodge, so we head over to the lodge itself and, there, we don't see a single one returning to home.  So, we head to the hidden lodge where we find zero, and up the east channel of the burial island, where I give P a good sniff of a scent mound, which he declares to be bad (in winter when they eat tree bark, the scent is pleasant, but I must agree that mid-summer castoreum is fairly rank).  I show him the new muskrat lodge and then we head over to the Big Lodge, where we find no beaver and actually little sign of recent activity.  By now, we can forget about finding beaver.  It is too late in the morning.

But, a green backed heron rises up - all dinosaurish and gawkiness.  It settles behind the lodge and we circle round to view it perched, where it is a deceptively small and graceful looking bird.  Then it unfolds itself into something ill proportioned and flies off.

We cross the bay to take a short walk to see the north eagle nest.  We discuss the reality of Seattle's eco-imagination while looking over Yesler's pilings next to the former Seattle dump site.  I have a low opinion of the founding fathers who for some reason thought that it was a good idea to dump any and all garbage, refuse and debris in the water.  Following the north shore, we spot three very small raccoons running along the shore.

We stop again near the West Lodge.  P is up and out of the canoe and before I can get out he has declared the felled alder trees on the shore to be cool.  In fact, they have continued to work on some of the trees, although not with such vigor as in the winter when they have nothing else to eat.

We continue on, paddling without break into and through Portage Bay and down the dead lake passing the shipyards. 
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Sunday, 5 March 2017

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