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Forum: General Sailing Forum 25-07-2022, 12:07
Replies: 25
Views: 3,050
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Can one take an endeavor 32 out the Erie with an atomic gas motor

My advice to people with older boats that they want to travel some distance with is to closely examine the complete fuel system.
That includes, and especially, the fuel tank. If you have an Atomic...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 22-07-2022, 11:50
Replies: 17
Views: 2,163
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Windlass tripping more than it should?

Check for grease fittings and make sure all is well lubricated.
On my boat I bring in the chain about 20ft (6m), pause and spray with washdown pump, then engage again for the next section.
If I try...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 12-07-2022, 08:27
Replies: 21
Views: 3,689
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Can you identify this Buccaneer?

Don't buy a project boat as a first boat.
You are likely to run out of enthusiasm before the boat hits the water.
Even so called 'ready to sail' boats often need work and equipment, but are usually...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 12-07-2022, 08:19
Replies: 50
Views: 9,298
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Are Dagger Boards Worth it?

I have owned a 39ft. catamaran (for 16years) with fixed keels that I sailed about 60,000 miles full time cruising and local cruising.
I now own a 37ft catamaran (for 6years) with daggerboards and...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 05-07-2022, 07:13
Replies: 46
Views: 6,257
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: CAN OF PAINT EXPLODED IN COCKPIT

A friend stripped his 15ft dinghy of paint with Easy Off Oven Cleaner.
He applied, covered with cling wrap (so it would not dry out to quickly, left for a while, then scraped off.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 03-07-2022, 12:25
Replies: 33
Views: 6,139
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Anchoring in the Great Lakes

Above advice is valid, though one more tip.
Do not be in a hurry to set your anchor.
When in weedy areas, as in Prince Edward County and Thousand islands and other weedy areas:
Look for patches...
Forum: The Sailor's Confessional 01-07-2022, 08:02
Replies: 42
Views: 6,286
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Learn from My Mistakes

Yes, always start checking the simplest things first.
I recall sailing down the west coast, Neah Bay on the Olympic Penninsula to San Francisco (about 750nm), a couple days out, a lively sea, wind...
Forum: Training, Licensing & Certification 01-06-2022, 08:20
Replies: 70
Views: 8,187
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: How to get heavy weather ocean sailing experience

If you want to sail in big winds and high waves, go where they are common and nearly everyday.
We sailed our Catamaran from Lake Ontario to round Cape Horn and spent 11 months in the area.
An...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 26-05-2022, 08:13
Replies: 16
Views: 1,225
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Hauling a Norman Cross 50'

Here at the Toronto Multihull Cruising Club we have many trimarans, though the largest are a couple 40ft. Brown Searunners, and a few Cross tri's. the largest a 40ft built in the 1980's.
We crane...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 12-05-2022, 16:54
Replies: 29
Views: 4,225
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Insurance Requiring a Lightning Rod

I was delivering a friend's 45ft catamaran from Nassau, Bahamas, headed direct for New York. About 180 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras we were struck by lightning. All electronics, batteries and...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-04-2022, 07:31
Replies: 197
Views: 16,180
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Help from strangers while docking? A poll and my rambling musings.

I am usually boating with my wife, me at the helm and she with which -ever line I want fastened first.
We are elderly and not that agile, especially my wife, so some help is appreciated, but with...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 23-04-2022, 06:56
Replies: 30
Views: 5,204
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Buying older built trimarans

I have a 1997 cedar strip epoxy catamaran, professionally built and vacuum bagged over a mold. The cedar strip hulls are great, no problems. The epoxy/ply decks have needed some attention.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 19-04-2022, 12:46
Replies: 29
Views: 2,821
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Planning to sail from NY to Miami fall 2002 - advice please

Think about Atlantic Highlands, NJ, that is our favourite spot at the south shore of Raritan Bay. Long breakwall and you can get a mooring or a slip or anchor at the end of the mooring field and...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 26-03-2022, 08:42
Replies: 38
Views: 5,207
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Replace the diesel or not??

I bought a boat in Florida that had been setting ashore for about 2years.
I suspected the fuel would be contaminated, so sent the suction hose from one of those hand pump vacuum engine oil...
Forum: Marine Electronics 07-03-2022, 15:19
Replies: 11
Views: 1,384
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Raymarine type 100 /St6001 problem

Check your RFU (rudder feedback unit), I had one get worn in one spot that whenever the autopilot was engaged it went hard over because the RFU was not giving a signal to the course computer.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 04-03-2022, 10:04
Replies: 16
Views: 1,329
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Cruising adventure camp for kids

Another Canadian option, Toronto Brigantine, brigs.ca.
Our children went through this program as teenagers and loved it.
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 22-02-2022, 17:20
Replies: 33
Views: 5,495
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Expected load on anchor rode

I have twice had anchor chain fail on my 39ft. catamaran, both times while in the Beagle Channel of Chile.
First time was with G4 10mm chain in a deep anchorage with a rocky bottom. Lowered the...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 22-02-2022, 16:49
Replies: 38
Views: 5,335
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: What's Wrong With a Primary Stern Anchor?

There were quite a few sailboats built with masts up in the bows, like the Nonsuch catboats, Freedoms, Hunter Visions, etc. that had a lot of windage forward. Even some centercockpit ketches with...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 20-02-2022, 16:38
Replies: 91
Views: 8,941
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Are Sailors Individuals who differ from the norm..

I completed a circumnavigation of the world with a family of four in 1988 and at that time the Guinness Book of World Records said there were just over 500 amateur crews to have circumnavigated that...
Forum: Marine Electronics 09-02-2022, 13:28
Replies: 325
Views: 28,397
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Radar is now redundant ?

Areas where radar is most useful are foggy, like Eastern Canada and U.S. We spotted icebergs on the radar when sailing from the Straits of Belle Ilse to Iceland, though it was the proper time of...
Forum: Navigation 07-02-2022, 14:34
Replies: 54
Views: 10,267
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Advice for Sailing boat from North Lake Huron to Nova Scotia

I have sailed all of the Great Lakes except Superior, and the above advice is fairly sound.
I have also sailed out the St Lawrence twice.
The later you get through the St. Lawrence locks the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-02-2022, 09:08
Replies: 121
Views: 12,888
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Is there a senior (70+) cruising sailor forum?

My inspiration from a few year ago was a man 88years old on his way up the BC inside passage to Alaska, said he was looking forward to many more times. His wife at five years younger was looking a...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 01-02-2022, 08:02
Replies: 78
Views: 11,559
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Is a Fridge Worth Installing?

We did a five year circumnavigation of the world with no refrigeration plus another two year trip without refrigeration. Potatoes, carrots, cabbage, eggs, salami, cheese, yoghurt etc. will last a...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 24-01-2022, 09:52
Replies: 13
Views: 1,595
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Buying outside your own country?

I am a Canadian citizen (Toronto) and in the fall of 2016 I purchased a U.S. built 38ft catamaran in Florida.
After I had the bill of sale I got the Canadian Ontario License (not full national...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 07-01-2022, 07:47
Replies: 52
Views: 7,532
Posted By Paul Howard
Re: Data on improved performance from transom extensions?

I extended the transoms of an early Manta 38 because the lower step was always submerged and growing green stuff and slippery. All the tankage was at the back of the boat, plus engines, dinghy in...
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