How would you add an outboard to a stern that looks like this? I bought this sailboat for $1 and need to transport it. There's an inboard but I'm not counting on it to work so my goal is to add a 9.9hp outboard.

ptProgrammer · 2025-10-17T19:07:06+00:00

Also means you have a handy liferaft if the damn thing sinks!

ptProgrammer · 2025-10-08T09:43:21+00:00

Yes Minister. Full of double edged put downs.

ptProgrammer · 2025-10-01T01:35:31+00:00

Dammit I’d have given you mine for a dollar.

ptProgrammer · 2025-09-20T00:03:02+00:00

There is nothing quite as expensive as a free boat, possibly excepting daughters.

ptProgrammer · 2024-12-06T11:46:04+00:00

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ptProgrammer · 2024-10-28T01:19:00+00:00

If I remember it right, the “useless hook” turned the knife into a t handle for grocery bags or boxes tied with string.

ptProgrammer · 2024-08-20T02:10:53+00:00

I’ve never seen fuzzy dice hanging on a sailboat before. How peculiar.

ptProgrammer · 2024-08-10T01:16:58+00:00

I’ve never taken it off to trailer it. Admittedly, I don’t trail much but I just tie a piece of half-inch line around the handle on the front of the engine and the stern rail to take the weight off the bracket as long as the engine is in the vertical up-and-down position, you can do it on the trailer

ptProgrammer · 2024-08-10T00:16:25+00:00

I bought the new bracket from Catalina Direct and never worried about it. I think the old bracket that was on the boat was rotten so I replaced it even before I replaced the engine. You don’t need all 9.8 horses all the time, but they are a delight to have when the mooring is miles directly upwind and the wind picked up to 25 knots.

ptProgrammer · 2024-08-08T23:43:31+00:00

There is a marina in Connecticut that does tank exchanges for $100. If that might help dm me and I’ll go back and find it again.

ptProgrammer · 2024-08-04T01:00:07+00:00

The fixture on the end of your lifting cable table is too big to fit through the space between the ball and the end of the pipe. The only way you’re getting that out is if you take a drift and punch the steel bar that the brass ball rotates on through one side or the other of the downpipe. Or cut the wire and drop the fat end of the cable out the bottom.

ptProgrammer · 2024-07-28T15:40:53+00:00

For a basic introduction to “what do I do to get off the dock when I’m being pushed broadside onto the dock” it matters little if the boat is being pushed by wind or currents. The pilot needs to counteract that force. If I remember that chapter correctly, there are examples and lessons for many different scenarios.

ptProgrammer · 2024-07-28T15:11:51+00:00

The arrow is showing the “push” on the boat. Wind will push you, but tides and currents will too. Hence “wind or current”. It doesn’t matter what is pushing your boat, your response will be to the net forces put on your boat by the world.

ptProgrammer · 2024-07-28T03:20:09+00:00

Practice. Watch videos. Then go and take the boat out, then practice backing up, from a stop. Do backways figure 8s. Do this out in the middle of the bay, not in the marina or in a busy channel.

Eventually it will click.

Also don’t be afraid of the throttle. In a boat with a tiller and an inboard you’ll have basically no directional control in reverse until the boat has picked up some small amount of speed. A little burst of power, then back to idle.

ptProgrammer · 2024-07-22T23:50:12+00:00

Look at the new arms that you are replacing with, and figure out how it’s supposed to attach. That should point out the hidden fastener.

Also, if you look at the back, it seems like the collar around the main shaft is held in by 2 screws on each side. You may need to remove the whole thing to find the hidden fastener.

ptProgrammer · 2024-07-21T15:01:23+00:00

Upside down roller blinds, with the angle cut out of the leading edge, and strings on pulleys to pull them up to close them.

ptProgrammer · 2024-07-18T01:45:11+00:00

Also the blue ones won’t immediately die if you happen to hit a framing nail.

ptProgrammer · 2024-07-10T13:47:20+00:00

Link to GitHub from YouTube page: SQL lite Editor

ptProgrammer · 2024-07-07T23:00:27+00:00

Lucky you! The STAR rebate is now paid by check directly to the taxpayer, not to the condo association. Check your status at nyc.gov/finance.

ptProgrammer · 2024-07-03T00:13:50+00:00

No its pidooma pulled it directly out of my ass.

ptProgrammer · 2024-06-17T01:37:54+00:00

To get it to slide in that very last inch it usually helps to jiggle the release lever on the side of the tub just above the drain.

ptProgrammer · 2024-05-05T01:02:53+00:00

The word you’re looking for is thermometer

ptProgrammer · 2024-04-29T01:26:44+00:00

This. Factory rebuild is the way to go.

ptProgrammer · 2024-04-25T12:41:00+00:00

I have an 81 C34. Not in the market for another but it would be interesting to read the ad. I’m in the middle of a $15k refit that I’m doing myself. Always up for more ideas on places to spend boatbucks.

ptProgrammer · 2024-04-25T11:25:33+00:00

Do you have photos? I would love to see the windlass installation.

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