Hi - Another question. Concentrating on other essential systems, I have not addressed minimal deck and port-light leaks. When I get rain, a small amount of...
I have just joined the group and read several messages. My wife Susan and I have owned Dixie Lady, formerly named Anecdote, (hull #8) for a little over two...
I have an old address from the old club information that I have. Back in the 1980's he lived in Indian Rocks Beach, Fl. Mr. Scott also designed a Sandpiper 32...
I don't think that it would hurt to drill holes, but I am not sure that it would help a lot. Water accumulation was a major problem mentioned in all of the...
At least once a year pull out the bolts that go thru the ends of the stainless poles supporting the booms. The poles will cut right thru the bolts and you...
With the wind forward of the beam trim the sails so the mizzen luffs before the main does and the boat will steer itself without anyone at the tiller. The main...
Putting in a new engine became an occasion to redo many other systems. I added a second electrical panel, by-passing the ON-OFF- BOTH switch, for auto-pilot,...
My wife and I were anchored by Alligator Point on our way back to Southwest Florida from Pensacola. We were trying to figure out how to cross the Big Bend...
Steve, this is Ron Payne. Got your message about St. Marks. From a historical point of view, St. Marks and St. Augustine were virtually the only significiant...
The only Sandpiper I've seen in the flesh was tied up behind somebody's house in Crystal River,FL. We were sightseeing in our dinghy after stopping there on...
So what was the color of the one in Crystal River. I think the guy who owns the one I saw must live on the east coast of Mobile Bay. The way he was headed as...
The Sandpiper(?) we saw had a white hull with the same oblong ports as the Beachcomber which may rule out the boat you saw. Changing the subject, I am...
Steve, Ron Payne. I, too, had to rebuild the rudder stock. I had it anodized and put it together with NeverSeez (which never impresses oldtimers). The...
I brought some of the problem on myself by putting bottom paint on the old housing where it went into the water. Even though I had put a coating of epoxy on...
The previous owner of our beachcomber replaced the original rudder with a wooden (probably two laminated layers of marine plywood) rudder covered with fiber...
I'm toying with the idea of using the same rudder housing but replacing the rudder with a short rudder that doesn't go any deeper than the keel. I would add...
Sounds like a good idea. Remember that the rudder needs to extend at least just below the prop wash though. It would be nice if you could somehow mount it on...
Steve, Ron. I agree the kick-up, as designed, is not the immediate kind of kick-up you find in smaller boats. I have noticed that when I bump in murky water,...
Larry, Ron Payne I flew into Pensacola to get to Mobile Bay, so I was a good distance west of Panama City. My ultimate plan is to do some limited cruising in...
The dock where I pick up my guests has an average water depth of two feet so my rudder spends a lot of time kicked up. My hope is that a winged rudder will...
I would like to welcome a new member, Bruce Cain, to the Beachcomber 25 Club. Mr. Cain owns a Catalina 25 and I am sure some of our members are wondering why...
Steve, Ron Payne, Whither went your idea for a new kind of rudder? Munroe's rudders never went below the lowest part of the keel and he up some of the...
I've become entangled in the web of work and don't know when I will get free of it long enough to work on a new rudder. If I make any progress, I will post it...
Steve, Ron Payne Well I hope you get to it soon. As I was going up the Intracoastal, inside the channel markers, between Port Everglades and Bahia Mar, a...
Ron, One of the problems with a tubular rudder is keeping it clean. Fouling is bad in Florida and a flat outboard rudder is easy to keep clean. Keeping the...
Ron, I would like to bounce an idea off of you to see if it might solve some of the rudder problems. Take two pieces of fiberglass long enough to extend from...
Right, I had figured you meant 15 inches below what I always refer to as the rudder stock. I haven't done much navigation with the rudder in the full-up...
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