Welcome to the Pearson 365 Yacht Club

[Popeye.Tom]

Hi all, new-b here!

Can't really say, "Long time listener, first time caller..."  More like, "Short time lurker, first time poster!"

I purchased hull # 146, current name "Typsy Gypsy."  The CG-1270 form was signed and notarized this past June.

I'm getting ready to start a bunch of work and so you'll see me popping up and asking advise all over the forum!  I'm really looking forward to getting her sound enough to go sailing.  Right now she is a harbor queen. 

I know PO took her out and maybe it's fine, but I'm a bit leery until I can do things like shut the raw water intake and return for the engine.  Getting ready to fabricate my version of the mast step replacement and I need to do the standing rigging.  The port main upper shroud has at least 1 meat hook and I found a meat hook on the mizzen too - I just don't trust the standing rig and risking the mast is not worth it...  A large but pretty expected work list!

Anyway, glad to be here.  Excited to find a small but still active and friendly community with a lot of DIY!

Cheers,
Tom

[Oleksandr29]

Hello! I would like to find travelers who have been on the Pearson 365 Catch about the Great Loop Route. Are there any here? Maybe someone did not go himself, but knows those who did?

[Dale Tanski]

Tom,
Welcome aboard!  It sounds like you are not at all a new-b rather someone who has been around the harbor a few times.  Indeed 365ers seem to be a group of very capable DIYers. 
The boat is worth the effort and can take you where ever it is you are headed.  It is a rock solid platform that is aging well.  I have worked on so many different boats by many manufactures along the way that are just coming apart and dying a slow death. 
The only thing you didn't touch on in your first post is the fuel tank which is one of the more challenging items to replace.  If you are lucky it has already been replaced.  The mast step issue has many ways to be solved it just depends on your skill set. Keep in in mind, the basic factory steel version typically lasted 40 years. Are you going to need it to do its job longer than that? Each item is just another check box on a list.  Enjoy the journey and don't forget to go sailing along the way.

Dale Tanski

[Oleksandr29]

Everything is silent. I would like to understand if this route is of no interest to anyone or is it not possible for Pearson?

[Popeye.Tom]

Hi Dale, thank you for the welcome!  Been another busy week at work work!  Damn that work from keeping me from my play.  Work and the damned fire - I'm only about 60 miles from the the Smith River fire complex.  So when I wasn't at my j-o-b, I was building mew box fan filters.  I've gotten good with duct tape and furnace filters!

But, I think I get to play with sails and sewing machines this weekend.  Get ready to take them back to the boat, if the fire allows.  Right now US-199 is closed in both directions because the fire is burning on both sides.

The only thing you didn't touch on in your first post is the fuel tank which is one of the more challenging items to replace.  If you are lucky it has already been replaced.

I'm lucky one of the PO did the tank.  It has a nice aluminum tank in place.  They also put in a nice heat exchanger water heater and started replumbing with PEX. 

The mast step issue has many ways to be solved it just depends on your skill set. Keep in in mind, the basic factory steel version typically lasted 40 years. Are you going to need it to do its job longer than that? Each item is just another check box on a list.  Enjoy the journey and don't forget to go sailing along the way.

Good point.  I have some 1/2" aluminum plate big enough to cut the base plate.  I'm intending to bend some 1/4" 6061 for the "heel" and "toe" cups and weld those to the plate.  I have TIG so doing that is in my wheelhouse. I do have some concern of movement from weld heat.  I think that I can manage that with careful heat control.  I hopefully won't have to do much or any straightening/flattening of the base plate. 

I'll keep you all posted on the progress and will share my design to add to the mast step knowledge base!

Now, off to walk the dog while the AQI sits at a pleasant 155.  Considering we've been over 300, 150-160 rates as a nice morning!   

Cheers,
Tom

[Oleksandr29]

Hello. I want to buy a Pearson 365 yacht. I have seen many advertisements on the Internet about the sale of a Pearson 365 in the USA. Now I have arrived in the USA and want to choose and buy the "yacht of my dreams", but for some reason most sellers do not answer me So far I have only been able to see one yacht Maybe there are owners here on this forum who would like to sell their Pearson or maybe someone knows such people and can advise me something?