Boat Forum / Building / August 2004

Well we've got the electrics sorted out on our Viking 23 narrow beam and now
we are looking at the interior. The previous owner covered most of the sides
and roof with a thick plastic wallpaper type of covering. I intend to renew
the roof with tongue and groove. Has anyone got ...

There's an article on boating that appeared in the LA Times today. The
writer's email is charles.duhigg@latimes.com
Stern alert
Dragging behind a boat or even hanging out near exhaust puts boaters

  I'm putting running lights in my 12ft aluminum skiff. I'm running the
wires through a harness and want to run it down the inside chine (don't
want it down the keel, and the gunwale is outside so can't really do it
there). How do I attach the plastic harness to the aluminum? I ...

I have a table of offsets for a hull design I would like to build. Does
anyone know of any softawre that I can use to plot these with? No big deal
if I have to do it by hand, but thought software might be interesting.
Thank you.

Working a mold plug project for a new kind of flats fishing boat for the
flats.
Client is building the plug himself from plywood and needs someone to
CNC cut the panels and frames.

I bought a space sailer 22 last week (for those that don't know this
is a 22 foot masthead fibreglass keelboat). I am looking to set the
boat up for racing but the previous few owners of the boat did not
race her so some of the fittings have disappered.

I needed to replace my gas tank and bought a plastic 29 gallon tank
made for installation. However the old tank was 60 gallons and 37"
wide, 42 inches long and 10 inches deep. The replacement is 26" wide,
43 inches long and 9 inches deep. My question is from front to back

This is slightly off topic since I building a swim platform rather than a
boat, but they use the same materials and both float...
Anyhow, I found a big pile of 5/4"x6"x5' pressure treated planks, weathered
but in good condition. I figured they had gotten all the cupping and

On our recent BVI cruise I started thinking about cockpit drink coolers.
 The beneteau 505 has a very poorly insulated cooler in the cockpit
table that is a total waste of ice.  RUTU, being derived from a modern
high performance design, has a very wide fairly shallow cockpit.  ...

 My son was helping someone move and clean out a garage. among the things he
was to throw away was a curious set of boxed parts that includes a  steering
wheel and short colum (cool looking red and white with chrome), cable and
pulley sets, a two stick control and spiraled rods in ...

anyone has experience in converting a truck motor (pegaso) into a
marine-type thing?? I would like to couple it onto a reversing clutch
(of wich i dont know the details yet, but its a big one) and than look
for the appropriate propeller...?

How should the sail "power center" (excuse vocabulary) be located compared
to the keel center. In front of, or behind?
To be able to sail high against the wind... what is most important?
Morgan O.

I need to lower the mast on my space sailer 22 (22ft masthead
keelboat) (see earlier messages regarding halyards). I have had
experience doing this on larger yachts (30 and 32 ft) but they involve
some pretty heavy masts. On those boats the technique was to set up an

can anyone tell me where the engine coolant sacrifical zincs are
located.  i need to change mine.  model gm 6-71n, marinized by johnson
towers.
thanks,

We want to build a small L-shaped bench for the flybridge on a 30'
powerboat.  It will be self-contained (not built into the flybridge).
We want to keep the weight down, and it must be water resistant.  What
is the best material?  I wondered about 1/4' plywood braced with a