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There are a couple of more details about these three projects now on my site:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jrhenson2/id1.html
Joe
Sure. I don't know how great the information you get will be. I also would like to tap into your experiences with this re-core stuff. It seems like I just took the first stride in yet another marathon project. I'm looking forward to something easy like installing a paper towel rack in the galley.I'm going to want to pick your brain a bit this winter.
Well, I think I put a private message into Tim to get the measurements on his seat lockers thinking that Pearson would know better than I would. Mine are pretty close in size to the late model Tritons. I can measure mine later today. It seemed convenient to me to locate the forward edge of the locker with the forward edge of the old side cutout. That left me with about 6 inches of seat left aft to work with. I wanted the lockers to be as far aft as possible but still have enough area to attach the gutter sections. The gutter sections were made with a 2" lip (1"at the coamings) for gluing to the underside of the seats. I then ran 4" and 6" biax tape from the lip undersides to underside of the seat surfaces (and up the inside of the coaming supports). To do this I cut the old plywood stringers on the underside of the seats back 6" on the forward edge and completely removed them from the raft edge. The gutters themselves give the seats a good bit of stiffness. I stand on this aft section of the seat all the time as I get off the work ladder and it is very strong.Roughly where are the fore and aft ends of your lids? In hindsight, might they have been better a few inches this way or that?
My pleasure! I have several others as well if you're interested. It would probably be best to email them to you. Does your ISP have a restriction on the size of file attachments?any chance I could see larger versions of these pics?
Wow, that stove is cool -- please tell us about it! I'd give up a settee for that thing!
2 cockpit lids per side!Rachel wrote:This is not a Triton-specific answer, but if the cockpit bench openings get too long, I wonder if it might be a pain to clear them all off each time. Like say if you had cockpit cushions, people, etc. there. If the openings were smaller and there was more room on either side, you might be able to toss such things onto the un-moving section while you opened the lids.
I know I've found that to be the case with saloon settees. On one boat each settee was one long cushion and it was a pain to have to move everything to get in there. On another boat with them split in half, you could just move stuff over onto the half you didn't need to lift.
Might not be a big deal, but just thought I'd mention it.
--- Rachel
I considered that idea in the planning phase of the project. The more I thought of it though, the more it seemed like the woodworking for these would be more difficult than building molds. I made all four molds in just a couple of easy, short work days. I obsessed about gluing wax paper onto each section, and I realize now that I could have gotten by with ordinary car wax (which I used for the latest instrument panel mold). I could make some now in an afternoon. The molds where pretty easy to make. I made all the outside dimensions a little oversize and used the grinder to bring them to final size.I had planned on building the profile in wood and glassing it in place. Is this a bad idea?
Joe, where did you get your kerosene burners?I replaced the burners with new Patria diesel/kerosene burners, so the stove should be good to go.
I had a kerosene stove on a previous boat, and this Spring I installed one on my current boat, replacing the "Origo" non-pressurized alcohol stove. The kerosene replacement worked great this past summer, far exceeding all expectations.Kerosene aboard a yacht seems to spark as many strong opinions with sailors as does inboards/outboards and halyards led aft. I have never used it before, but I have had pressurized alcohol stoves before, so I'm familiar the pain of preheating the burners. I believe A&H Stoves can modify these for propane use if need be.
So you're the one that bought those, eh? When I called Force 10, they said they had just sold the last burner. ;-) I was able to buy a spare parts kit and some spare gaskets from them so when the time comes I can get another round of life out of my bulkhead furnace. I'll note the names of the other suppliers for future reference. My stove uses a different kind of burner, and I have plenty of spare parts for it.I got these burners from Force 10 Marine, but they don't carry them anymore.
We used to use something similar in the UK when I ran a scout troop to light out "tilley" lamps. Lamps used Paraffin and the wick used 'methalated spirits'.It's a wire "clamp" with wick material wrapped around it. You simply dip it in alcohol, clamp it on to the burner, and light it.