Comments for Floatingzoo.com

Comment on Announcing…. by Restless Sole

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:14 +0000

Jeez I wondered why you’d been so quiet and what you were up to. Now I know!!! Congrats
N & M

Comment on Announcing…. by Jerry - Port Gentil, Gabon.

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:13:33 +0000

CONGRADULATIONS guys…I really like the name you chose. Reminds me of our old team Cheers!!

Comment on Announcing…. by Kim & Eric

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 14:51:51 +0000

Wonderful photos!

Comment on Advice you won’t find anywhere else. by sara

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:11:07 +0000

Yes! This totally freaked us out. So we decided to use Hayn Marine’s Hi-Mod fittings when we replaced the rest of the rigging over this past winter. Toss said Mi-Mods are his new favorites. These are GREAT! Totally foolproof to put together. Gotta love that.

See: http://www.hayn.com/marine/tech/himod/install.html

Comment on Advice you won’t find anywhere else. by Mico Verde

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:10:03 +0000

Wow, this is some scary stuff. You should email Brion Toss with your findings, I know he would be interested.

(Touching a belaying pin while typing this) We have been impressed with our sta-loks to date. In Puerta Vallarta we continued our rig replacement and cut a new forest’y, jibst’y and backst’y. It was easier than we’d imagined (using a hacksaw and block of wood as a mitre as Don Casey suggests works fantastic).

Comment on The Most Unglamorous Job — DONE! by Larry

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:55:38 +0000

When you are replacing the white hoses, you can make them very pliable by 1) cut the replacement hose to length
2) plugging one end with a tapered wood plug
3) fill the hose with very hot water and let it heat up
4) empty the water into the sink. The hose will be very flexible now. remove the wood plug
5) install the hose. The ends will slide easily into position.
Trust me. You will like this approach.

Larry

Comment on It’s stopped raining! Time to get busy. by Ross

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:05:50 +0000

As the current owners of your 40 year old Pearson, we sure hope you got it all

Comment on It’s stopped raining! Time to get busy. by sara

Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:41:37 +0000

SWFH - our previous boat was a 40 year old Pearson. We know what rot looks like.

Comment on It’s stopped raining! Time to get busy. by shipwrightfromhell

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:10:16 +0000

“Her deck core is dry as a bone”

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm……..in a 25 year old boat that’s got 40k miles on her?

There’s an old saying that goes something like “Show me a person who says their boat doesn’t leak and I’ll show you a liar” Sounds like something Mark Twain could have coined.

Anyway, your boat does leak somewhere, and where there is water, there is rot, which begats the question: who made the assessment that the core is bone dry?

Someday a cleat or winch will pop out of the deck and the only thing you will find that is dry is the rot.

I do admire your courage, enthusiam and energy, for most people would consider sails, standing and running rigging, chain plates as more than ” a little updating,” I consider that changing out the entire frigging rig.

You should have a winner when you’re done. Wish I had the moolah to do a little updating on my rig.

swfh

Comment on It’s stopped raining! Time to get busy. by sara

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 05:03:26 +0000

Don’t take that statement *too* literally, shipwright. By “trashed” I just mean Rivendell has been well worn in and much of her gear needs a little updating (i.e. running rigging, standing rigging, sails). I mean, she is 25 years old and has been sailed 40K miles give or take around the globe. But this is what we live to do and we knew just what we were in for when we purchased her two years ago.

Frankly, we’ve not run into any surprises at all while upgrading and maintaining her that we weren’t aware of when she was surveyed. Well, not true. We thought we’d run into a lot of core rot while removing the teak decks but we found not one speck of rot to speak of. Her deck core is dry as a bone. We like those kinds of surprises.

Rivendell is getting sprayed with Awlgrip this coming week and her mast will be restepped with all new standing rigging attached to shiny new chainplates. After we finish installing the Treadmaster on her de-teaked decks she’s going to look brand new. She deserves it.

Fair winds!
-sj