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I bought her Nov 8, 2003 and she sat on the hard until the July 4 weekend of the following summer whereupon I jury-rigged my Honda 5 outboard on the transom and took her out for a sail. Then that fall I brought her home. Here is a pic with her mast down in preparation for hauling. I hired a boat hau...

There is a PDF file with quite a few insignias:

http://www.msogphotosite.com/PDF%20Page.html

If you look over at the last column, you'll see it listed....

I can see that this is going to take a lot of forethought if I want to end up with a topnotch installation, which I do. Some of the idea behind changing to an outboard was to get the heat and fumes out of the cabin. The original motor was a Kermath Sea Pup, 5 hp four stroke water cooled inboard whic...

Hi, Any thoughts or references on properly installing a gasoline tank for a 4 stroke ouboard motor? Clearly the simplest thing would be to keep the tank out in the open air, but I would like to keep the weight as low in the boat as possible. I'm thinking of a tank on the order of 20 gallons (I know ...

I can see I need to do some more research on materials. I'm not familiar with biaxial fiberglass. All I've ever known is mat, roving, and cloth and have only a small amount of experience with them, enough to know that I wouldn't want to try to make a living laying it up!. To get the boat where I wan...

Hello, This is my first post to these forums. I have a 1972 Tartan 26 (Tom Norton design), hull #30, that I bought a while back with the idea of fixing up for coastal cruising. I'm still a ways from retirement, so my thought is to have a spot in the cabin where I can work at a computer, combining a ...