Miscellaneous things..

Several high res pictures of the california special sport aluminium I've got for sale. Clicking on them should make them bigger.

This is a pdf of the now defunct Macgregor website. If you believe this violates your copy write or anything let me know and I'll take it down. Right click with your mouse and save as pdf. 32 megabytes.

So there has been some progress. I rigged the boat this afternoon for the first time. There was a bit of breeze but I risked it. Jib sheets and main sheet. Initially I missed the forward fairleads but ... then I sorted it. The outhaul and downhaul are confusing at this stage. I'll take a closer look later. It's weird. It almost looks like it had single line reefing. Likewise the downhaul is not obvious. I am pretty sure this is meant to be a boom tent. Like everything on the cal it's very small. My hercus lathe. I turned down some dowel to extend the aft mast cradle. The timber extension. I really don't know how you would step the mast without it. The halyards and main sheet were all crusty and horrible. I took them off and measured them intending to buy new. but then I had an idea. I tried washing the ropes in my machine at 95C with some detergent. and they cam...

Some progress today. First a look at the cockpit drain. This is the cockpit side. The hole is about 20mm 3/4". You can see how thin the skin is on the cockpit side. This is the outside of the same hole. What you can see there is the plywood transom behind the fiberglass skin. It's a bit rotted. If you look carefully you can see the inside of the cockpit side skin. The lighter bit under it is the inside of the boat, the space under the cockpit floor. The light is coming from the open cabin hatches. Anyway this is the problem. This drain is below water level all the time. If water leaks past from either side it falls into the bilge and gradually fills the cabin. Right now it leaks badly. This is the aluminium tube that slips inside the hole to drain water from the cockpit. It is cut at an angle because the drain hole isn't horizontal, it's drilled at an angle. These photos show the solution on gypsy. Gypsy perfor...