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03-08-2020, 18:58
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
Hi Roy,
I also am trying to figure out a place to mount 3 100 watt solar panels on my SR 40.(I want to run a small45 quart fridge/freezer)
The aft cabin roof has plenty of space, but you need to...
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25-06-2018, 07:07
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
[QUOTE=Dymaxion;2658127]Any areas requiring special attention I should look at on a SR37? Being a homebuilt I know this isn't an easy question, highly dependent on builder etc.
Definitly check...
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03-04-2018, 18:05
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
That's an interesting setup Blewit John.
Is there some sort of fairing in front?
Any problems with swamping the engine or cavitation?
I have one 25 hp hi thrust Yamaha mounted on the stern on a...
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18-08-2017, 10:15
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
I just went back and re-read the anchor road section.
I read it wrong.
The 1/4" was for the smallest Bahama moor/dinghy anchor only.
The rest was 5/16"
Kelpy rocky areas are a challenge to anchor...
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18-08-2017, 07:38
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
I guess the main thing that bothers me about the small diameter chain is if one link gets nicked or chafed halfway through, you effectively have 1/8" chain in terms of breaking strength.
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18-08-2017, 07:05
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
I just recieved my copy of Marks book and started reading it.
Excellent!
I'm learning allot from this book.
Any one with a cruising multihull should own this book.
I have never considered small...
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16-08-2017, 19:29
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
Mark, is your staysail on a furler also?
Now that I'm in my sixties,I need to make the boat easier for use by an old guy.
Getting on and off the boat from a dinghy safely is one thing I've been...
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15-08-2017, 18:29
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sea dragon
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
[QUOTE
The Dry deck hatches, 4' taller rig, sailed always as a sloop, a big "lapper" instead of genoa, moving the running backs 4' forward, fully battened main,
Mark[/QUOTE]
Mark,
I also have...
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15-08-2017, 07:41
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
Cadence,Owly,& Mark,thanks for the replies.
I ordered your book,Mark,and looked up some of your posts(In response to me asking the exact same questions several years ago(Ha Ha!).
Funny how easy...
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13-08-2017, 07:06
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sea dragon
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
My SR40 deck lockers are badly designed and rotten, I would like to design the new ones better than they were originally designed and built.
The idea of the wet lockers is good, but they are prone...
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30-10-2016, 18:51
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sea dragon
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
Hi Cadence
Well,it's 100 lbs or so heavier than a 9.9hp.4 stroke
So equivilant to a 9 year old child standing on the transom.
And that is on a big, wide, forty foot boat.
The boat is designed to...
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25-10-2016, 06:36
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I've installed a 25 hp 4 stroke Yamaha high thrust on my SR 40.
It has the gearbox of a 40 hp motor and turns a 12 inch prop
Mounted on the stern on a IMC Easylift hydraulic motor bracket....
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19-01-2016, 11:46
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sea dragon
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
I switched to a quadrant and cable system years ago.
It works great.
very low tek strong and simple.
I have an off center helm also.
It doesn't matter where you locate the helm.
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26-12-2015, 15:14
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Could you post some pictures of your boat?
I've never come across one.
Do they have the same type stern castle?
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09-11-2015, 18:15
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
I have a 2 speed manual windlass like the one in the photo.
I'ts great and breaks the hook free.
The trouble is the slow speed getting all the gear in.
In tight, windy,rough conditions,there...
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09-11-2015, 12:40
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
Hi Mark,
Many thanks for the reply!
That helps allot.
I will do some searching for a stout 7" minimum boarding ladder.
That looks like a great,good looking installation.
I'm just about to...
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28-10-2015, 11:41
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
Must be a different boat.mine has none of those things.
The sterncastle was set up as a dinette when I bought it mid eighties
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27-10-2015, 15:45
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
Hi Roy,
My boat was built by Art Cox in Long Beach in the late seventies.If it has a sail number I don't know what it is,or how to find out.
He built it with Epoxy, which helped it to still be...
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26-10-2015, 15:50
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
Hi Tri del sur,
I have a SR40 just south of you.I've owned it for 30 years.
A spinnaker would be great.
I don't own one, but I would like to.
In allot of windy downwind situations,I really like...
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17-07-2013, 21:18
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sea dragon
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
Thanks Roy and Mark.
Yes that's the type lockers I need.
To protect the contents.
Unfortunatly the rot is bed enough in places that some plywood will need to be replaced.
But I scrubbed them all...
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13-07-2013, 06:09
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sea dragon
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
I remember awhile back there was discussion about "wet lockers".
Mark had some good ideas about"not so wet lockers"
I am dealing with my "rot lockers":( right now, and want to come up with a bit...
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31-05-2013, 20:30
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sea dragon
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
An excellent honest post Mark.
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12-05-2013, 19:43
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sea dragon
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
You might find,after using the hank on sails.....
That they are no problem at all.
especially on a 34 ft. boat.
Maybe take the money you would use for the furlers, and put it in the cruising...
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04-05-2013, 05:55
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Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
My father was a latex paint man.
Once a year we would scrub the cabinsides and deck down in the morning,
and paint that afternoon(at anchor).
The topsides would be done the same way on the beach....
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24-04-2013, 06:53
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sea dragon
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners
It was a pleasure to get a chance to meet you Roy,and get the tour of Wilderness.
A fine ship indeed.
Alot of good ideas in that boat.
I really like the way you built the sterncastle cabin....
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