tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56247614141447735482024-02-20T03:01:01.556-08:00Sandpiper 565Scottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12442304504351231237noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624761414144773548.post-44614036069592906032014-07-31T09:59:00.001-07:002014-08-14T08:16:27.475-07:00Stepping the mast<div class="MsoPlainText">
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a few minutes the other day, so I decided to step the mast and see if there were any missing
important bits. This actually went quite
well for my first time. I tied a line
from the forestay pin through the guide pulley on the bow and ran it back to
the cockpit. From there I could walk the
mast up into the cabin part of the boat while keeping tension on the line and
while stepping on the centerboard trunk, I finished the job off with a nice
easy tug on the line. I walked forward
and removed the line and secured the forestay.
I am thinking this job will be a bit easier with the use of a jin-pole,
I will have to make one up and see how that works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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looks like several of the stainless pins and clips have been lost over the years and have
been replaced with standard nuts and bolts, which of course are now all
rusty. I think I will need about 6 of
these to make it right. I see in the
rigging instructions for the boat it talks about spreaders. I see a couple of brackets on the side of the
mast, but no spreaders to be found. Now
as I look at Sandpiper 565’s, I see some with spreaders, and some without. The ones with spreaders show the shrouds
going from the chain-plates to the mast without any angle change at the
spreaders (straight shrouds!) If this is the case, there is no need for the
spreaders, but I may be missing something.
I will need to do a bit of research.
Other than that, the standing rigging seems to be all there. That’s exciting. Now, on to the next project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stopped by my local big box wood store today and bought a piece of mahogany to
remake the gangway cover edge guides, One is missing, and the other is sketchy
at best, we will call it a pattern. This will need to be replaced
in order to make the boat dry. This is
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Scottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12442304504351231237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624761414144773548.post-5261067815349654532014-07-31T09:48:00.002-07:002014-07-31T09:48:25.982-07:001st. clean up day!<div class="MsoNormal">
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cleaning. I started by throwing everything
out of the boat that wasn’t bolted down.
Next, the shop vac and I began the tedious process of removing
the water that was still in there. It
took many, many shop vacs full of water to get her dry, but things were looking
up. That was until I popped open the
blue thunder bucket head! OMG, what a
mess. Shop vac, bleach, shop vac,
bleach, shop vac, …….. you get the idea. However, she is nice and clean and will never
be used again! I have concluded a
thunder bucket with a pump out tube is just a bad idea. I am having visions of me standing on the deck in my driveway, after a nice day of sailing with a shop-vac! I don't think that is in the cards. Different times I guess.</div>
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The next step was to scrub the deck, it went pretty well,
but some of the stains from the moss remained.
That was the point that made me decide on the pressure washer. Well, that made pretty short work of cleaning
the top side gel coat. In fact, except
for a couple of rust stains she looks great, dead flat and never to shine
again, but nice and clean. Now, I grew
up working in my Dads body shop, and I can tell you that I have never seen a
surface that was any more perfectly prepped for paint. Nice and smooth and pre-etched. Its just begging me to spray her. That would allow me to patch up the many
screw holes she has acquired over the years that used to hold things of great
importance that have since gone missing.
I scrubbed up the sides with Oxyclean and bleach mixed with a bit of
very hot water and it cleaned the crap off very nicely. Someone along the way has painted the sides
(yellow part) However, that still looks pretty good, am not quite sure what to do with that
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I pressure washed all the teak,
some will be saved, some will need to be replaced. No surprises there. What did surprise me was the solidity of the
hull. She is in great shape. I cant find any blisters in the gell coat,
and what is there seems really good.
With one exception; the cockpit floor.
This is amazing considering that when I tip the boat and trailer up so
it rests on the stern, I could see a very vivid water line that went from in
front of the centerboard trunk and made its way aft to the very top of the
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Now,
if I took out more than 150 gallons, I am not exaggerating a bit to say there
must have been a thousand gallons in there.
1000 gallons at 8# per gallon works out to 4 tons of additional weight
on the trailer. It’s a wonder the whole
thing isn’t just a pile of junk. Whoever
designed and built this boat was one hell of a designer, she is a robust girl
to be sure. The hand laid glass inside
the storage compartments looks nice and pink, just like it did when it was
new. Under the rear hatch, she looks
great. As I said, the only part that
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8 hours of clean-up work that day. It was an amazing days progress. I think I have a very solid candidate for
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Day two: 8 hours work, 14 hours total. $259 invested.</div>
Scottyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12442304504351231237noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624761414144773548.post-47883115592459332752014-07-31T09:37:00.004-07:002014-07-31T09:41:08.468-07:00Pick up day<div class="MsoPlainText">
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headed out to pick her up the next day.
Rain was in the forecast, so we were in a bit of a rush. After cleaning out all of the things that
would blow out as we trailered her, we drained out about a hundred gallons of
water. I pulled the wheels off and
headed to the tire store. $140 later with two new tires, we were back at the
boat. I removed the hubs and greased the
bearings. They looked pretty good,
however, the inner seals were both shot, so those will need to be replaced
sometime soon. The outer wheel nut
covers were both missing, and now I can see why; the flange that holds the
covers has pretty much been broke, knocked, or otherwise been busted off the
hubs. I am not quite sure what to do
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A bit more prep tying things down and we were on the road
headed for home. The trip was pretty
uneventful, all went smoothly and she towed quite well, considering she still
had almost a hundred gallons of water still in her that we could not easily get
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Once home, We finaggled the trailer around to find her a
nice resting place outside, but close to the shop for the next phase of her
restoration. All this was going
perfectly until I swung the car a bit wide and tapped a nice big tree with the
side mirror of my car and ended up giving the local dealership a $60 bill for
the parts to fix that. I guess if that’s the only thing that went wrong, I was
pretty lucky. It is expensive to be
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Well, I finally did it! I bought a sailboat. And, man is this going to be a project! She is tired and about as dirty as they come. She was sitting on flat tires and apparently she holds water pretty well. Its an older (1970 something) Sandpiper 565, A 18 foot day sailer. These boats were made in Canada. The hull appears to be quite solid. The biggest issue with this boat is that the sails are missing. The story is that they were stolen. The interior cushions are all there and they are in good condition, the only part of the boat that is. I think almost all of the standing rigging is there and looks to be in pretty good shape. The running rigging will all need to be replaced.</div>
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The keel is a crank up lead filled fiberglass centerboard, It seems to crank up and down nicely. The interior fiberglass is in great shape. These few shots are of my first looks at her! It takes a real visionary, or a lunatic to see value in this baby.<br />
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The ad on Craigs-list said Sandpiper sailboat Needs lots of TLC, $175. I watched this boat on Craigs-list for over a month, I couldn't bring myself to go take a look, she looked just a bit too far gone. I don't know what made me change my mind, but I decided to research the Sandpiper history. It seemed like a nice solid boat, hand laid glass, well built, and the group said it makes a great first sailboat; Hmm, maybe I had better go have a look. Well, after a half hour of poking around and thumping on the hull, doing a basic inventory of things I would need to buy, like sails and new tires for the trailer and about 50 gallons of gas for the pressure washer, LOL, the only real problem I could uncover was the soft cockpit floor. Let the negotiations begin; believe me, the owner was pretty motivated to have her out of his yard, Actually, I could hear his wife saying "make it go away", or something like that. We finally settled on $120. Actually, I only had $119 in my wallet, so thats where we ended up. I am now the owner of a pretty gungy 1975 Sandpiper sailboat.</div>
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