On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:13 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ahoy Jim, > > Your new boat sounds like a large antique wooden motorboat. You will need > all the help you can get. > > A friend of mine had a pre-WW2 Trumpy 86' wooden motorsailer and it ended > up killing him. He got heat prostration working on the planking in the > summer in Florida, was taken to the local hospital where they gave a > full-fledged stroke using a catheter, after which he went back home to > Michigan and died. The boat sold and sank at the dock in Green Cove > Springs. It is still there I think. The new owners apparently didn't > understand that wooden boats need effective, reliable bilge pumps to stay > alive. >
It's not just wooden boats that need effective reliable bilge pumps. > I suggest you have multiple bilge pumps, staggered at different heights, > with counters to keep track of the number of operations per day, alarms > (audio and visual) to warn you when (not if) the lower ones fail, and > operating from independent power supplies. > pretty much mirrors my opinion, it's hard to have too many ways of getting water out of your boat. > DO NOT connect your boat to dock water. Fill your tanks and draw from > them. Most boats I have seen sunk at marinas were sunk by dock water. > I agree with that, further, with some 175 gal of fresh water in tankage, there's not a whole lot of reason to rely on dock pressure. I have seen one boat sunk by failed restricter in the dock water line. > I can help with the diesel fuel system. If you can't find my fuel system > messages in the archives let me know and I will send you some input. > > Always looking to learn more. The DD 6v53 are new to me, but for the most part, a diesel, is a diesel. Give it plenty of clean fuel, keep it cooled, and lubed and all will generally be well. The 2 strokes have some extra issues, and as always, details vary, but they are pretty straight forward. > If you ever consider fiberglassing the hull I saw it done on a sailboat > called Lord Jim. > > The hull was stabilized by stapling on with monel staples, and set in > epoxy, two courses of wood strips (about 1/4" thick & 1 1/2" wide) in > opposite directions at 45* to the horizontal. This is to keep the hull > from working and breaking the fiberglas/wood bond. I think they used > fiberglas/polyester but there are more flexible materials available which > are used with epoxy (which is more flexible and has better bond strength) > instead of polyester to reduce the tendancy to break the glass/wood bond as > the wood swells and shrinks with temp/moisture changes. > Yes, I have seen, and generally don't care for the glass it over approach, as you say, the difference in flex is a big issue. Currently, the hull and structure is in good shape, so I'll stick with that for now. Wooden boat building techniques are pretty mature, and will do the job for now I think. > Or you can do it like they did the USS Constellation (docked in Baltimore), > They assumed the interior framing was so old as to be non-structual so they > strip planked the hull (after straightening it out with jacks under the > keel) with 2x6 strip planking, the first two layers at 45* to the > horizontal, then a horizontal layer on the outside that looks like > planking. I don't remember if they kept the original planking or not. > The process was written up in Wooden Boat magzine years ago. > > That sounds an interesting read. I'll have to check it out sometime. Thanks for the inputs. > Norm > S/V Bandersnatch > Lying Julington Creek FL > N30 07.68 W081 38.47 > >> Kat and I have spent the last 9 years living about a 35' "Cruising" >> Cal, Bill Lapworth's design for a comfortable long range (150 Gal of >> diesel, 110 of water) cruiser. It's been a lot of fun, if we didn't >> travel as widely as we'd have liked, we did enjoy what travel we >> managed. But we have just made the transition to a large motorboat, a >> 1955 Constellation, and find we have a lot of new lessons to learn. >> Two diesels and a lot of storage among them! It's like living in a >> smallish apartment. >> >> >> Anyway, looking forward to lurking and learning new stuff, about our new > path. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > -- http://neon-buddha.net _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
