Hey man, great looking rub rails. What kind of wood did you make them from please? I need to do the same operation...moving my chain plates outboard to hull sides and making wooden rub rails.
Yes Sir. Looked at photos and other examples of tabernacles/goosenecks and the fact that Gros Bec will have the same type mainsail as my melonseed which I trailer around. @@kaisailor1
@@buddysimons5200 I am refitting and redesigning a 1976 Balboa 26'. I have wanted one of these boats for years and finally found one close to me on a trailer for free...well, almost free. It cost me a few hundred to get the trailer up to snuff to tow it home. Anyway, I'm raising the cabin top and the foredeck about 7" and rerigging the boat with a Wharram Tiki-26 sailing rig. I wanted to do away with a lot of the hardware that was going through the decks and cabin top, which in the factory setup was poorly done, eventually leaked and caused rot everywhere. So, I'm moving my chain plates out to the hull-sides and going with a spreaderless rig with a bird-wing gaff to eliminate a bunch of the redundant Bermuda Rig stuff. My boat is being built as a long distance camp cruiser for Great Loop. So I'm getting away from the quasi-racing rigged deck and sail plans and redesigning for ease of use, durability, economy and relative comfort. The Loop is a year long journey and I'm doing a trailer sailer so I can launch and retrieve in case there are problems somewhere along the way. My boat has a 1200lb swing keel, which I'm doing away with in favor of shallow twin bilge keels, keeping the same keel-up draft, as factory. But allowing for sitting upright on a beach, bank or flat trailer. And keeping the same weight. I'm not looking for speed (at a hull speed of 6 knots which cares)...Anyway, I'm glad I found your channel. You're doing some really great work, and I'm trying to do a few of the same things so it's nice to see someone else with similar ideas. Thanks a bunch.
Wow! Nice job!
Thanks!
Love that highway boom setup!
She's a long one...
Hey man, great looking rub rails. What kind of wood did you make them from please? I need to do the same operation...moving my chain plates outboard to hull sides and making wooden rub rails.
Thats Ash lumber with a 10 degree angle on top and bottom making the base wider than the face.
@@buddysimons5200 Awesome, thank you very much. Did you engineer your mast tabernacle as well?
Yes Sir. Looked at photos and other examples of tabernacles/goosenecks and the fact that Gros Bec will have the same type mainsail as my melonseed which I trailer around. @@kaisailor1
@@buddysimons5200 I am refitting and redesigning a 1976 Balboa 26'. I have wanted one of these boats for years and finally found one close to me on a trailer for free...well, almost free. It cost me a few hundred to get the trailer up to snuff to tow it home.
Anyway, I'm raising the cabin top and the foredeck about 7" and rerigging the boat with a Wharram Tiki-26 sailing rig. I wanted to do away with a lot of the hardware that was going through the decks and cabin top, which in the factory setup was poorly done, eventually leaked and caused rot everywhere. So, I'm moving my chain plates out to the hull-sides and going with a spreaderless rig with a bird-wing gaff to eliminate a bunch of the redundant Bermuda Rig stuff. My boat is being built as a long distance camp cruiser for Great Loop. So I'm getting away from the quasi-racing rigged deck and sail plans and redesigning for ease of use, durability, economy and relative comfort. The Loop is a year long journey and I'm doing a trailer sailer so I can launch and retrieve in case there are problems somewhere along the way. My boat has a 1200lb swing keel, which I'm doing away with in favor of shallow twin bilge keels, keeping the same keel-up draft, as factory. But allowing for sitting upright on a beach, bank or flat trailer. And keeping the same weight. I'm not looking for speed (at a hull speed of 6 knots which cares)...Anyway, I'm glad I found your channel. You're doing some really great work, and I'm trying to do a few of the same things so it's nice to see someone else with similar ideas. Thanks a bunch.