Pearson 365 and 367

mine is in graved in the transom upper starboard corner outside if you mean the factory number, questions of American registration numbers on boats then I'm lost 

it looks great nice job but i wonder how it looks from the site and how it compares te the rest of boat are there more pictures? and of course are there more pictures of others who installed a hard dodger

filling this deep bilge with lead will be a lot of lead and this will change the boat characteristics. Our designer Bill Shawn has thought well about our boats and here behave in various swell and wind conditions. Off-course when we load our beauty with the necessary goodies and supplies it will also alter here behavior but adding extra ballast and in-bedding that in resin will change that permanently. I personally would not do that it will probably degrease the value of boat except off the value off the extra lead because you are altering here stability without a proper calculation on what the effects will be. Probably she will be very stable and hearse and will this will give extra stress to the rigging in swell because she wants to be upright with more force and here movements will be more violent. I hope you did understand what i wrote because English is not mine native language, Dutch is 

I have one remark on this and that is never use Vaseline on plastic moulded parts due to plastics and oil products especial abs lexan and so on are made of oil and they do not like each other and cause what we call in the plastics industry stress crack. You schould use silicone based lubricant without the olie thing. They also use it for lubricating the seals of the water lubricated propeller shaft a good alternative is silicone plumber grease it wont contaminate your drinking water and won't harm your plastics 

some where on the Internet was a film where they did crash test with a Dehler  . Under full sail it ran on a floating boat dock, a tree trunk (it split in halve), and the ran it even to the basalt shore line (which resulted a crew member found its way to the cabin floor due to the sudden stop with as result minor scratches to the hull and some dents at the bow but no water leaking (fantastic plastik  ) ok a collision with a big seagoing vessel you will probably lose  but a reinforced bow section will not help I am afraid.

Quote from: PeteW on July 23, 2011, 12:54:01 PM
If the water and oil are separated and the oil is not creamy looking your engine may be salvageable without a teardown. To get all the water out you can borrow an idea from the 4x4 off road guys who routinely get water in their motors. The trick is to flush the crankcase with alcohol. Recall from chemistry class that both water and oil will dissolve in alcohol. Rubbing alcohol is already 10% water and is not flammable. Residual alcohol will evaporate at a much lower temp than water. (149 degrees F)

Alcohol indeed evaporate at a lower temperature than water, thats the hole idea to get whiskey or all the other nice drinks    the water will stay at the engine. I drove a Land Rover for more than 20 years and did some serious offroading but submerging a running engine means sudden dead of the beast (water-lock will destroy your crankshaft and more). Water will evaporate if your engine is working temperauur, okay a car engine has a little bit higher working temp but after a while the remaining water will evaporate. It is happening all the time in a engine because when you shut it down condensation will occur and there will be some water in the oil, the next time it will evaporate and leave the engine through the breather.

Pictures tel more then thousand words can say  especial in mine case because English is not mine  native language and  i'm am now drowning in the specialized English sailors language, sorry guys.

I don't know about the Velvet drive but the Paragon has a planetary-gear in it, and ATF is a fluid not a oil! To give ATF a greasing capability the manufacture put some gliding additives in, These additives do there work a little bit different then oil and they stick also to the clutch plates, so they will slip, I replaced the ATF with SAE30 and so far no problems any more.   

When it is cold outside the complete hull will collect condensation, especial when you live-aboard. The hull is not insulated, i noticed this when i opened the lid of the laundry closet in the toilet area, the hull was all whet in there.

Pointing up is the only way the plumbing of mine locker will allow these tanks in   and last year I refilled one of them at a official refilling station here in the Netherlands, although they are very difficult to find because the most use change bottles, you pay for the gas and a little bit for renting the bottle. I could not find a inspecting date on that bottle but the boss had no problems with it to refill it so I suspect they are okay The problem for me would be to fit a standing up bottle into these molded locker where mine two horizontal bottles are, its a tight fit, it would need a compleet rebuild and I like the need and secure situation as is.

As far as I can see is this setup done over in the United States. Maybe it was a option you could order in those days I don't know, but all the appendages are US origin.  

I have also a question about these horizontal tanks. Mine is equipped with 2 aluminum horizontal tanks but they are very rare here on this side of the big pond  . Although these tanks would probably as old as mine beauty the gas station had no problems refilling these tanks. They only did not now how many gas they should put into these tanks because of the horizontal use. the normal vertical tanks have a certain percentage of evaporated gas above the liquid level and the outlet-valve. you can not use these vertical horizontal, you would get liquid gas at your stove and that is something you don't want. So mine question is can I fill these horizontal tanks to 80% ore should i stay save and just fill them less than half.

The portlights are made of hardened glass. If you can some where buy these old Gilette razor blades, The old fashion single blades, you can try to scrape it off. Don't try this on the escape hadhes

Keep in mind this transmission was designed to do forward thrust most of the time when I'm right informed there is a planetary gear system inside this transmission which is stationary in forward trust. when going in reverse the clutch plates are losend and the brake-band will hold the housing of the gears and these gears will start rotating in their housing. These gears are with straight teeth because noise isn't a issue, cheaper to manufacture ( mine engine has ran for 1900 ours and probably did 2 ours in reverse of that  )  So yes reverse is giving some extra noise from the gears but nothing disturbing I think.
when backing up in a harbor I put the lever with some force in reverse and most of the time it stays there. but holding mine hand on the lever during manouvring isn't a issue for me. When stopping in the slip I like it to have mine hand at the lever and give it a little burst of power till it stops and the put it in neutral a.s.a.p.

I sail mine ketch mostly single handed, when things are going wrong is when I have a crew aboard  . It handles very well as-special when setting sail. first hoist the mizzen and pull in the mizzen sheet it will point upwind  by its own then setting the main and last but not least the jib, and this all without touching the autopilot. when tacking Upwind you only have to handle the Jib. Only when you plan to do a jibe its a hand full of work especial these running back-stays. But a good planning will solve also this.     

Good luck with finding your lady

Quote from: Jean-Marc & Melissa Zanni on April 17, 2010, 12:41:09 AM
Dutchie,

For Free MAC chart program you may want to try Polar Navy.  Works great with PC.  Download all charts from NOAA site.  Both RNC's and ENC's and for  $33 will connect to NMEA Compatible GPS and plot your position.

This year I used Opencpn its a opensource nav program and handles ENC BSB and cm93 charts. altough the mac version is still stuc at version 1.36 it works great.

The NOAA website I keep in mind and I will download the charts when I am to cross the big Pond to your side