Boat Forum / Building / April 2006

I am currently looking at tiller pilots for a 27 footer, and am
deciding between the Simrad TP10 and Raymarine ST1000+
Tiller Pilot A12004.
What I found on them says that both are not really waterproof,

I scored 350 kg of lead over the weekend for free from various tires
centres. I found outwhat the trick is.... go to tire centres where they sell
a lot of mag wheels... they use adhesive backing instead of clips to attach
to the wheel. I still have weights with clips but not as ...

My soon to be new/old boat is a C&C 30 sloop rigged sailboat.  The boat was
built in 1974, or 73.  Anyway,, it is OLD.
Everything looks pretty sweet but after reading your posts and learning ;;;
I have concerns.

I've searched through here for people with problems similar to
mine but haven't seen anything.
I bought a fiberglas dingy, about 10 ft. last year. The old wood
working had rotten, esp. on the gunwales. I stripped everything,

This one is from 1976, the ports are labeled IN/OUT but I don't know
if it's upside down or not. It's a stainless oval cylinder with the
ports on one side and the mounting tang on the other. Does the tang go
up and the unit hangs down for mounting with the ports at the bottom?

Hello boat swamis,
26 foot sailboat with a 1gm10 yanmar
My question is does anyone know if a two lever sidemount engine control with
a robust friction adjuster (for throttle creep) is still being made like the

If I use two 30 lb thrust motors, is that equivalent to one 60 lb thrust
motor?
Do two 9 hp motors equal one 18 hp motor?
In terms of boat performance, not necessarily theoretically.

Hi all from Italy...
due to severe hydrolysis of all the originally low saturated external
mat of my 27" sailboat, I went to "scrape" it off by hands with chisel
(a very hard job!!)

Hi maybe you can help....three of the screws is frozen on the traveler
Philips head. What's best heating and if so do I use a heat gun on the
screw head?  The traveler is aluminum. I also have a deck organizer
Schafer with frozen flat screw heads into a iron embedded backing

I´m looking for Endurance 35 plans from Peter Ibold. Does anyone know
a source ?
fair winds
Sven

I have another question for you : what is the price in the different
countries of precut steel per kilo ? In Italy it should be beetween 0.8
and 1.2 depending on your ability. What about other countries ? Would
it be advisable in your opinion to have a hull built abroad and then

The Chebacco's CB is entirely enclosed in the case.  The boat will live on a
trailer.  Is there any reason to apply paint to the interior of the case and
or to the CB?  Both are well encapsulated with epoxy.
Roger

Can anyone shed light on the pros and cons of either?

Hi, y'all...
Back on the boat and about to pull the shaft and tranny to true the
shaft and plates and, perhaps, redo the MaxProp settings.
However, before I can do the calculations, though I have the pdf of