What did you do to your boat today? Point83 Yacht Club

[Bo Ttorff]

Middle of summer and the yacht club is crickets...what gives?

Anyway, I'll start:

Was at the locks Monday eve and saw what appeared to be a 17-20# HATCHERY king. What this means is they are moving in.. kings open July 16. So I busted out the downriggers for the first time in nearly a year and a half, brushed off my connections, checked my lines, tightened my hardware and repair a shaky swivel base. Buggahs are working cherry.

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Spent the rest of the evening sharpening crowbar hooks out of plain excite.

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[Alex]

Like the .83 logo! I don't know much about fishing equipment, but the rest looks good.

Today I dove my boat to check out how it's looking underneath. It's nice being in warmer BC waters, I just wore a farmer john and was plenty warm. Nothing to report down below, zincs and bottom paint look fine. I cleaned up a little seaweed that was tangled up in the prop.

Then I reattached the bench in my dinghy. I don't think they invented nylock nuts yet when this thing was made, but they seemed like a good upgrade to keep it from rattling apart again.

The real adventure happened a few days ago when we were leaving Roche Harbor and heard a super loud "sproing" that most sailors might assume is a broken shroud.

It turned out that the blower hose for our engine got wrapped around the propshaft. Blower hose is made like dryer hose, so the wire in it was pulled out of the hose and wrapped itself around the shaft until the wire broke. In the process it damaged our engine's raw water strainer, leaving us with a slight salt water leak (about a gallon per hour based on how often our bilge pump turned on). Luckily we had an unnecessary raw water strainer on our toilet, so I was able to move it over to the engine. A couple of days later we were in Naniamo with a good chandelry and I got a second one to put back on the toilet.

Boats, something is always waiting to break!

Now we're next to a big square rigged wooden boat called Gaia that Bott probably knows.

[caustic meatloaf]

mental note: get fishing license this week.

[derrickito]

i folded my boat up and placed it into my garage

[the dreaded ben]

dibs on a seat in the salmon slayer.
that is, if you'll have me, captain.

[jeff]

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[jeff]

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[Bo Ttorff]

[henry]

[lantius]

[henry]

Pre polish:

[Cassnasty]

[caustic meatloaf]

just so's you know, there is *zero* crab north of the strait. I went up there for a couple weeks, up through desolation sound, and we caught zero crabs the entire time. bunch of BULLSHIT, since it was $40 or something for the license.

[Bo Ttorff]

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[henry]

[Alex]

awesome henry

joe; I'm hearing the same from folks up here, glad we didn't bring our crab trap or get a license.

recent work progress: a couple of days ago I installed a 4 sheave deck organizer to add a topping lift and downhaul for a spinnaker pole. When I get back to Seattle I hope to get Andrew, Henry, and Eric? onto the boat and we can figure this shit out.

[Bo Ttorff]

[Alex]

[henry]

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[Razi]

[Alex]

[Razi]

I was on the Cal 3-30 "Nightshade".

The design is really fucking stupid. The through hull is usually several inches above the water but this boat is sort of late-era IOR (although not pronounced at all) and at certain angles of heel or above particular speed the transom sits low enough in the water that the through-hull is *just* below WL.

The failure happened when someone was down below looking at the stern anchor-rode locker. It turns out that the anchor was not tied off at the locker (brilliant I know) and so someone was down there taking a turn or two around the rudder-post. While doing this, a slight tap on the hose managed to knock i loose completely from the cockpit drain fitting that was old, shitty metal. So the hose at that point went from the transom into the lazarette and we were left with one working drain. Cockpit drains are really an achilles heel of boat design. On non-open transom boats, pretty much every design I've ever seen that I actually liked was not spec but was some modification.

[Razi]

[Alex]

[henry]

It wasn't today and it wasn't really done to my boat or another boat, but a cool boat project i worked on this weekend was placing a temporary mooring off my folks place at Guemes Island.

It's basically just a Rocna 15 with 30' of chain and 90' of rope terminated in another 6' of chain on a mooring ball.

In the mud up there that adds up to a fuck ton of holding power, but is fairly readily pulled with the windlass on the boat.


Also we went over to which is now open to the public during the day (recently purchased from the Fluke Family by the San Juan Land Trust). This is a cool spot and would be an awesome:
1) mid-day stopover on a cruising trip
2) One day destination in a small fast boat from either Anacortes or Bellingham
3) One day kayak trip (You'd probably want to leave from the north end of guemes)

Sadly there's no camping allowed at this time, although the plan is to donate it to the state and develop it as a park. We only had time to check out the beach closest to the caretaker's house which would not be pirateable, but the more remote beaches might be if you were really sneaky.

My biggest takeaway from talking to the caretaker was how awesome of a job being a caretaker for such a place is.

[Alex]

[Alex]

[henry]

[Bo Ttorff]

Is this person a bot? ^

[lantius]

[jeff]

[Bo Ttorff]

[Alex]

Like the drawer!

Andrew and I brought home this beast today from Port Townsend:


It was my first time driving with a trailer, that part went well. The boat is a Radnor 505 from the 70s, in pretty nice shape.

Didn't get a chance to try it yet, hopefully next weekend.

[Bo Ttorff]

#Boatsarethenewbikes

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[Bo Ttorff]