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Hmm, I wonder what surveyor has helped set up the winningest J30 on the west coast, supervised an extensive rebuild of a beached J30, supervised a J30's Pac Cup prep, and then played gawd-awful Hitchhiker skits on a J30's cockpit speakers all the way to Hawaii on a J30?

I used to buy from them in SoCal- we would occasionally meet in a gas station parking lot when I needed stuff right away (no, he didn't ask if I wanted some cheap used speakers to go with my order). I have since bought stuff through their ebay site as well. I think selling composites is not...

I saved this pic a while ago, I think it's a Class 40, maybe by Farr...

Also, I recall DBSS's compression post started going through the hull bottom. Make sure you add some beef around the bottom of f89 to distribute the load. Don't use 6-8 oz pw tape for the chines. 12 or 17 oz biax in and out if you can. (One boat had some cloth tears along the chine).

GoPro (or other wp video camera) works underway too. Tape it to a pole (we used a long PVC tiller extension, but a kelp stick would also work), go to the rail, swing the end forward and plunge into the water, let it swing aft with the flow. Do it a half dozen times, and you'll get a couple great...

A few boats are going to Brookville Lake, IN over Memorial weekend. BLSA doesn't have anything going on, so we'll just do our own thing- sail each other's boats, some rabbit starts, tune up, and generally goof around. Camping near the lake. All i550's within driving range are welcome, and tire...

so 4.7' is ok? :rolleyes:

ugh, bad link. this one works: https://picasaweb.google.com/117880383229715256733/52ErSprit?noredirect=1

Did a couple fixed sprits a few years ago, here's how the bigger one went together: https://picasaweb.google.com/m/viewer#album/117880383229715256733/5583412600420980721

When we did it with 3 on a J30, we found the standard schedules didn't work. Partly because our instruments weren't well set up (too bright, bulkhead instead of mast mounted, and a too bright masthead tri-color), we found that night drivers needed to rotate every 30 minutes. We ended up doing 3...

I drew up the rotated jigs for him, they're posted on the Class site. Found it: http://i550class.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=110

I think these are pics of the other i550's tiller breakage: http://storyhouse.org/boat/EC14/Day%20Two/Pages/18.html

Ceiling, actually, is the word for the fore and aft strips on the inside of the ribs, often installed with a slight gap for air flow, and should be tapered toward the ends of the boat like carvel planking would be. Usually a lighter wood than the outer planking is used, such as cedar, spruce, or...

For an A-frame to beam connection, you want the tops of the A's to be under the beam, and you want something that won't let the beam roll or twist. Scabbing some flat 2x4's over the joint from each side would work (I used scraps of 3/4 ply for my smaller version), or wrapping a construction...

So what's a practical max draft- 3'? (I've got a bulb I'd like to put on a new blade, could cut/reshape the current one to suit, mebbe)

I had half the weight to lift, so cross-braced 2x4's for the A's and a 2x6 across, diagonally braced. Scale it up a bit for yours... https://picasaweb.google.com/m/zoom?uname=117880383229715256733&aid=5525742861634722385&id=5807440433462999778&viewportWidth=320&viewportHeight=416

I've spent some time and read some of the info, and one account talks of walking a boat across shallows for a half mile to get to the beach at a stopover. It looks like the passages are all along deep water, but the camping/stopovers aren't necessarily deep-draft accessible? Is shallow draft...

Wasn't my boat, and that spinnaker didn't last the trip. We were happy with the function of the tapes while they lasted- they made a hard to drive spin a little easier to read. The tapes felt pretty stiff, sorta like uhmw tape. Could be the sailmaker got the wrong stuff, dunno.

...'cept they only last about halfway to Hawaii, unless the sailmaker sews them on...

I used a router, added some wraps of tape to the bearing to give some extra clearance, and just held it eyeball-vertical while routing, then filed the cut flush. Gouv, starting with wood, I don't know of a way to get modern monocoque rigid/stiff structure without epoxy, and once you start with...