Hey! Let's proclaim a Holiday!
Wow, how cool is this!!!
I just got a Holiday 20 - and I'm just beginning to mess with it, too!
Pic shows my family and I(Circa 1973) out for the day...... Not really. Pic from web(Maybe a Newport catalog photo?)...
Other pics are the "new" boat, post first power-wash.
The 19 appears quite similar, other than "port hole" shape.
1. How are the top and bottom parts put together?
2. How did you get it apart? Don't know as I will go that far, but, it's tempting... I can see the pieces of foam down inside mine through a small deck plate - looks like quite a bit... Good!
3. Not really looking forward to the "fractional rig" on the 20. I can see, with the mast laying in my backyard, that the top(Above shrouds and stays) is already bent to a slight degree. We'll see.
How was yours rigged? Assuming some things about our boats may be very much the same(Or not?). I can't figure out if mine came with spreaders, or, if someone, later, added them to try to strengthen the mast or whatever? Anyway, I have no spreaders for it, just the spreader brackets on the mast, and two(One on top of the other) Shroud Adjusters attached to each chain plate! Appears as though once spreaders were installed, the shrouds were no longer long enough? Added an adjuster on each side to compensate? Can't test it, yet, as it only came with one shroud - sigh...
4. Just thought of this the other day, after noticing part of an old "sticker" on the mast that says the mast was made by Dwyer Aluminum Mast Co. All the fittings on mast and boom would seem to be, as well. I'm going to call Dwyer, and see if anyone there knows(Or remembers) the Holiday 20 - may even have Newport orders in the files?
Also not in love with the "traveler rig". Would prefer a "boom vang"-type main sheet arrangement, about 1/3 from the aft end of the boom, tied to the deck or CB trunk..? We'll see...
Also got 3 sails with the thing. One, the apparent main(Has "Holiday" on it!), and has reefing ties on it(!). The other two - I don't know, yet? One has a clear, plastic window in it(Genoa?), assuming the other is the standard jib. We'll see...
DO want to: Seal the "under-hull"(?) best as I can, so it doesn't get water in it in the first place(May be best done if taken apart?). Would rather be able to "removable plug" the lower part of the hull. Also want to greatly increase the size of the "scupper", on the "self-bailing" deck. They only self-bail if the water runs through them, I bet? 1 tiny hole, plastic hose which I can't get to, easily stuffed with ... stuff - not good.
Would love to rip-out the big "rear compartment/box" thing-a-ma-bob. What a painful, useless thing! And just re-form/glass the entire aft interior section(Maybe in the shape of a cooler I could drop into it?).
Be neat to replace the strange(I suppose functional.) lifting device for the center board - but with what? I'd like to cruise in the little craft, and that roller widget would hurt my back!
Also, mine came with Chain plates for shrouds AND forestay. would like to upgrade to Dwyer's stem head. And.......? Well, more as I dig in.
Other than these few, minor quibbles, I'm looking forward to the project. First though, at some 6am, at some little-used ramp, I'm going to put the thing in the water and see if it still floats. While it's sitting there sinking or swimming, I want to take a good look at the trailer.
Keep us posted!
Teddy G., KA3BHQ
Lititz, Pa.
www.teddygvo.com