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Forum: Multihull Sailboats 03-06-2020, 08:46
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

I should have posted this on your other thread....:facepalm:
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 03-06-2020, 08:39
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

the Piver outboard installation looked something like this...the hole in the cockpit was not that big...big enough to get the shaft and prop thru' but the main part of the engine was outside the...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 03-06-2020, 07:05
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

my vote is to use smallish amounts of WEST in a large mixing container and work quickly. High temps is definitely a controlling factor.

Another option...WEST makes slow and fast hardeners..the...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 02-06-2020, 11:42
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

forgot one last thing...

you can purchase WEST in a small quantity. The product comes in two tiny squeeze containers, much like a toothpaste tube, that are joined together. You just snip the top...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 02-06-2020, 10:56
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

yes, strange thing about WEST....it does like perfectly proportioned quantities of epoxy and hardener and a thorough mix, completely unlike fiberglass resin.
I have done very small jobs where I...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 02-06-2020, 06:57
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

There you go...an online manual...perfect !!!

Explains it a lot better than I can. Off course, it takes pages and pages to do so, but well worth the effort.

My introduction to WEST was thru'...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 02-06-2020, 06:17
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

WEST when it hardens, gets to be quite smooth. Not an ideal surface for paint or walking on.
You would need to sand the WEST first to key it for the paint to have something to grip too, but I have...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 01-06-2020, 20:30
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

The WEST system epoxy is more than just glue. WEST provides a wide variety of additives, fillers, bonding agents, etc, etc, etc. and can be used in many, many different ways, as a glue and a filler...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 01-06-2020, 10:18
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

..I've done a lot of work with WEST system epoxy...great stuff...

..a trick I've used is to collect sawdust from various wood working projects I'm doing and add it to a container of the WEST...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 31-05-2020, 18:02
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

I have another shot of it..if this will help...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 31-05-2020, 15:09
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

trimarans are not my forte...not even by a long shot....
but I can recognize quite a few of them...but ....

having said all that...I came across this one today, anchored in the ICW....and I have...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 30-05-2020, 07:22
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

yes, I noticed that too....the windows...bummer :frown:
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 30-05-2020, 07:20
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

The Piver was named " Wizard"...the Cross I don't remember, but Caribbean Soul seems to ring a bell..
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 30-05-2020, 07:17
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

The Searunner was definitely not a ketch....I remember that....the mast seemed to be located near the wheel as I recall. It had a light blue hull and was called " Hummer"...it's all coming back to me...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 30-05-2020, 07:00
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

let me see if I can give this a go...

The Tri in the water is the Piver...

The Tri on the hard is the Cross....still under construction...

These pics are old....70's....but you can probably...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 30-05-2020, 05:59
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

the reason I ask is that while I was building my boat, I knew a Piver and Cross tri being built. This would be in north Florida. This would also be in the mid to late 70's. The Piver was built with...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 29-05-2020, 18:55
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

I sure am curious about that boat.

Do you know who built it and where it was built ??
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 28-05-2020, 07:56
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Posted By MicHughV
Re: Trimaran - Especially Searunner - Owners

When I was building my boat, I knew two guys that were building tri's. Both were ketches. One was a Cross, the other a Piver. The Cross ended up in Texas somewhere. The Piver ended in the...
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