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Doc_holiday

Doc_holiday

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Nov 19, 2011
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MacGregor 26S Hampton, VA
What did I do today? nothing but hopefully I will get out of the hospital today. This is my third stay this month, I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am looking forward to a nice Christmas at home.

I don't know if life will ever be the same, but who knows maybe I'll just plan more sailing time. Things may not change and I'll be stuck doing the daily grind and sneaking out to work on / sail 'Ohana when I can as I have in the past

Oh, I am ok and sooner or later someone will ask but I am and have been dealing with Chronic Pancreatitis which until now has been called reoccurring idiopathic acute pancreatitis. (Doc says idiopathic is code for "we don't know why"). It's still idiopathic. We missed the Sippy cup this summer when we went to Annapolis to prepare, I was taken to the hospital there and we missed the event. That won't happen again.
 
walt

walt

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Jun 1, 2007
3,532
Macgregor 26S Hobie TI Ridgway Colorado
When my kids were litttle, Christmas morning was a big deal.. now I have to kick thier axxes out of bed..

Anyhow.. in the last "while" I have been both trying to make my 26S in general lighter but I have also been moving "heavy stuff" to the front of the boat and "light and fluffy stuff" to the rear. About a month ago, I took some video of the transom while sailing to see what things looked like back there. If there is a lot of hull drag, I "think" this will show up as water being dragged along by the boat so you might see the flow just behind the transom being "slower" than the flow out away from boat.

Most of this video is in slow motion and I cant really see slower flow right behind the boat - which I guess is good. The one interesting thing you can see is a circular flow setup just to the port side of the rudder and this is just the "vortex" flow created by lift. Sort of interesting..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zBIuX0xDnw&feature=youtu.be
 
walt

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Jun 1, 2007
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Macgregor 26S Hobie TI Ridgway Colorado
Another thing (I noticed after watching that video).. some time ago there was a discussion about ways to make raising the outboard out of the water for sailing easier on the 26S transom and I made another change that worked fairly well. I think I mostly stole this idea from Sumner who had something similar.. my rail in the back is "mid height" and its used to help raise the outboard..
 

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finding41

finding41

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Nov 23, 2011
2,023
MacGregor 26D London Ontario Canada
I got the water pump on the Johnson 6Hp I have.
I had to drill out the old bolts and tap new bigger holes. It went from 10-32 to 1/4/-20.
Bit of a change. I had to modify one head of a bolt to get it to fit. Bench grinder worked great.
I now have to get bottom end oil and some sacrificial anodes so it doesn't corrode like that again. This 1973 model doesn't have a spot for an anode...? I'll make one. (And I won't leave it in the water for a season. I think that is what happened with this.)
NOTE: The impeller is in backwards in the picture. I would have taken another picture of it the right way but my hands were covered with Vaseline!
 

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justsomeguy

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Feb 20, 2011
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Island Packet 35 Tucson, AZ/San Carlos, MX
Today, I installed new LED trailer lighting and wiring, and re-did the truck's lighting connections.

On a lark, I even resurrected the old clearance lights, which had suffered some corrosion in their guts. A little cleaning and soldering was all it took.
 

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finding41

finding41

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Nov 23, 2011
2,023
MacGregor 26D London Ontario Canada
justsomeguy said:
Today, I installed new LED trailer lighting and wiring, and re-did the truck's lighting connections.

On a lark, I even resurrected the old clearance lights, which had suffered some corrosion in their guts. A little cleaning and soldering was all it took.
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I like that style of LED light. I have a couple sets like that. (They are the best I have found so far.)
The other styles of lights I have lost lenses or the whole housing... I think it's from the bouncing that the empty trailer does.
(On my utility trailer I resorted to TucTape {It's the red tape for house wrap.} on the naked bulbs after the housing and lens one one side fell off... It has worked for over a year like that.)
 
justsomeguy

justsomeguy

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Feb 20, 2011
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Island Packet 35 Tucson, AZ/San Carlos, MX
I could probably get by with just arm signals, if I could trust other drivers' awareness levels, eh?

The lighting will get used very little, maybe 2-3 times a year, and doubtful will it ever be used at night.

I drive through a lot of open range in AZ and Mexico, and those durned cows/horses can show up at the most inopportune times. :eek:

But the new lighting should also help somewhat with resale value.
 

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Doc_holiday

Doc_holiday

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Nov 19, 2011
1,489
MacGregor 26S Hampton, VA
I don't think the cows or horses will care what your tail lights look like. Besides unless you plan on backing up through the state, it's your head lights I would worry about. Haha.

I put those same lights on my trailer but I had to mount them on the fenders. You can see them fine although I am waiting for some trooper to make an issue with that. It's amazing how many people think I am carrying the boat on a trailer made for a jet ski or something when they see all that boat hanging off the end.
 
justsomeguy

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Feb 20, 2011
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Island Packet 35 Tucson, AZ/San Carlos, MX
Doc_holiday said:
I don't think the cows or horses will care what your tail lights look like. Besides unless you plan on backing up through the state, it's your head lights I would worry about. Haha.
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A panic stop on a dark, curvy road with the truck alone would be enough of a buzzkill, never mind one with the boat in tow.


Doc_holiday said:
I put those same lights on my trailer but I had to mount them on the fenders. You can see them fine although I am waiting for some trooper to make an issue with that. It's amazing how many people think I am carrying the boat on a trailer made for a jet ski or something when they see all that boat hanging off the end.
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That's pretty much my rationale for the lighting. The law, and covering my a**.

Hope you had a nice bit of holiday, with a timely discharge from the hospital.
 
walt

walt

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Jun 1, 2007
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Macgregor 26S Hobie TI Ridgway Colorado
Brings back some memories of "open range" driving at night. One time about 10 years ago on Hwy 50 just leaving Nevada and just entering Utah I was driving along after midnight - eyes barely open.. mile after mile of road that all looked the same and completely out in the middle of nowhere.

All of a sudden I saw this huge white bull just standing right in the middle of Hwy 50.. I think he may have been sleeping. I swerved just in time probably just barely wiping his ass.. and soiling mine at the same time.

Fortanetly no trailer.. I had another similar incident on a back road in Colorado a few years later. I dont like to drive open range at night..
 
Sumner

Sumner

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Jan 31, 2009
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Macgregor & Endeavour 26S and 37 Utah's Canyon Country
justsomeguy said:
+1. Especially at highway speeds.

Pretty darned exciting, Walt.
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Doesn't even have to be open range. We get over 300 deer and some elk hits every year between Blanding, Ut, where I live and Monticello 20 miles to the north. They even have an electric sign with the count to that day of the year and it use to have a message on it saying 'deer suicide zone'.

If you go west to Lake Powell you have 90 miles of deer and black cows and even saw a mountain lion on the road once but they and bears have been in the yard.

Then going south for a couple hundred miles it is open range across the entire Navajo Nation,

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Aug 14, 2013
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MacGregor 26S High Desert
I hear you, Sumner, I was in Monticello today and even saw a few milling around toward Moab and the La Sals.
 
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