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will be changing to led lights both mast and cabin along with nav lights. adding solar, adding bbq, rebedding all deck hardware and below water...
Oct 19, 2023
Looking forward to V-berth.
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Das sind Teakleisten, die aufgeklebt, dann mit Schwarzer Masse ausgegossen und geschliffen wurden. Sieht immer noch aus wie neu.....
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This interior is gorgeous! What type of boat is this in?
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This is a Shur-Flo strainer for the seawater-flush head of C44 no.35, Alliance (2015). Note the idiotic design of the bracket. How does one screw elbows to the strainer's head if the mounting holes are directly behind it? This perplexed me to the point of ranting angrily at the Shur-Flo tech people. 2 Oct 2014
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This is White Hawk, C44 no.7 (1977), which was restored by Dave and his new Cherubini Yachts in two extensive sessions over 2003-2009. Lastly in 2012 it returned and Lee removed its original 11,500-lb lead shoe and had it recast as a Scheel keel, matching the profile of newer boats. It was a beautifully-done job-- the boat floats exactly on its lines (note slime line aft), perhaps one of the few C44s that, as sailed, ever did. Most are stern-heavy due to owner-specified add-ons like generators, etc. Hull no.7 was the 1977-1979 show boat at Stamford, Newport and Annapolis. I designed the interior layout of this boat when I was 20. It is one of only two or three C44s with varnished-teak cabinsides, although Chris, the owner, took the advice of a friend in the coatings business and had us apply a porch-furniture finish to the stripped teak. This caused irreparable damage to the 35-year-old teak planks, opening the grain and admitting water; and the boat will never look the same again. 28 Jul 2012
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This is First Light, C44 no.6 (1977), which was dramatically restored at Cherubini Yachts from 2005-2008. It is now loving sailed by Rob, an environmental lawyer at Charleston. Dave and I developed what we call the 'D'-rig, having independently-stayed spars (no triatic), for this boat and as the current new-boat spec.
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This is Emerald, ex-Ecstasy, ex-Diana, the Cherubini 44 plug (1975) which was meant to be my dad's own boat. Circumstances conspired to deny him this, which is part of the reason my H25 is called Diana, in memory of this boat and his dream. Despite appearances this poor boat was really in sad shape, needing a full drying-out of the strip-planked hull (such as in a dehumidified barn) and a full gutting of the hydraulics and mechanicals that the former owner, a hydraulics engineer, had cluttered it with. But the new owner's budget did not permit us to do a first-rate job, such as the boat deserves. You can see the internal bronze sheave which the former owner installed inside the metal-cage bowsprit to carry the anchor rode out the end of the bowsprit (read my comments about the first pic here). Still, this is where I reported to work all summer of 2012. Pretty cool. 13 Apr 2012
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The hydraulics engineer took liberties in screwing all sorts of hardware and hose mounts to the inside of the hull, driving sheet-metal screws right through all the 'glass and into the fir planking; then the boat wasn't very weathertight in the cockpit and the bilge was constantly wet. Therefore, the planking was wet. Lee and I stripped all the 'glass off both sides of the keel and dried it out, then reapplied vinylester 'glass to it. The hole that looks like a propeller-shaft outlet (the hydraulics engineer made sure he had a prop aperture hacked into the world's most beautiful hull form, like others have done since) was Lee's solution to adjusting the stuffing box, since the hydraulics engineer installed a large diesel tank directly above it, eliminating all access. Lee's idea is to scrape out fairing compound and remove this patch, from time to time, to inspect and maintain the stuffing box. (My idea was to relocate the diesel tank-- vetoed.) Aug-Sep 2012
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On the C44 plug, Lee and I installed a new Lewmar windlass on the bowsprit. The prior windlass had been hydraulic because the owner, who finished what had been my dad's unfinished boat, was a hydraulics engineer. It weighed about 300 lbs. I lowered it off the boat with the stays'l boom. This particular boat's bowsprit, engineered by the hydraulics engineer, is made of galvanized steel angle iron and shelled with mahogany. I scraped out plenty of white corrosion from where the bronze windlass had been bolted to it and epoxied and painted as much as I could through the back panel, which Lee cut for as little access as we could get-- for no access was provided-for originally. (What kind of arrogance is needed for one to delude himself into thinking that what is good in his own theory might never need inspection, maintenance and replacement in practice?) Then the former owner had led a chain rode THROUGH the bowsprit to an internal bronze roller inside the very end of the 'sprit-- about the least sensible thing one could have done, for now the slowly-corroding galvanized cage is a girder in shear load holding the boat to her mooring. On factory-built C44s, the bowsprit is a robust spruce and 'glass structure that could probably hold up half the boat on its own. It does not fail unless you fail to take care of it. 8 Jun 2012
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I located the Lewmar remote-control module up here, in the forepeak which would have been the cabin for my brother and me-- had my dad been entitled to have his own boat. 8 Jun 2012
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This is the tidy installation of Lewmar bow-thruster motor Lee and I did here. Lee, the once and future 'glass king', did a marvelous job tabbing in the tube down there. I don't have the patience for that! The moldy hoses are original to the 1982 commissioning and we weren't tasked with replacing them. 11 May 2012
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Here I am feeling weird to be chopping a hole in the strip-planked boat I helped build when I was 16-17. This is the 2012 bow-thruster hole for the new owner of the C44 plug, 'hull 0', from which Cherubini Boat's first molds were taken (this boat launched the type and the company). This was meant to be my dad's own boat and had the whole interior and deck layout he and I had conceived for it before my uncle, having made his molds from it, sold it as scrap to a hydraulics engineer who took 6 years to finish it into a functional yacht-- the boat my dad should have had. The guy even named it 'Ecstasy', which was sort of a kick in the teeth. Poignant work, doing all this. 23 Apr 2012
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June 2011. Yes-- these two twits are my kids.
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What it's supposed to look like.... My dad's idea was to have windows like an airplane, aluminum frames having the right shape and then just installed in the cabinsides. John Luhrs later thought it was best to use the same commercially-available portlights all other boatbuilders used; and the design went downhill from there. It was my idea to extend the settee berths under the bulkhead-- I had seen it on some more-obscure boat before. By doing this we got a 5-berth 25-footer that still has a decent cockpit. The wrap-around coaming was my dad's idea but we all (Bob Seidelmann, my brother, Warren Luhrs, my dad and I) contributed to it. It is good-looking, if awkward functionally, except for at the back where it finishes off the cockpit very well. The semi-flush deck (cabinsides tapering into nothing ahead of the mast) made my dad call this initial edition the 'blister-canopy' (as with the Supermarine Spitfire) or the 'bubble-top' (what they called the North American P-51C with Malcolm hood). Once a fighter pilot, always a fighter pilot.... The rig is tall and the boom short for an IOR-influenced boat of this period-- it's technically high-aspect. The narrow stern is an IOR feature as well, meant to get the smallest-possible girth measurements to 'defeat' the rule. Still the boat rates 19.4, not 18.0; and so it is not a quarter-tonner. The narrow stern actually makes the boat appear and behave very much like a double-ender, being responsible for the boat taking a following sea rather well and leaving the water close to the way it found it (if the outboard is not too heavy or kept down). Notice that the mainsheet in this drawing goes straight down to where Diana's bridgedeck-mounted traveler goes. ;) The parallelogram keel is a sign of the times (1972). In 1974 it would have had a vertical trailing edge. The semi-skeg in front of the rudder is as well; in 1976 my dad would eliminate all but a minor dimple there on the Raider and by 1978 he had said he should have done without it entirely. Other than this, the H33 looks like a direct descendant of the H25. Both boats are noted for early heeling, stability once heeled, good pointing ability and the tendency to be driven hard by the jib (throttle) and steadied by the main (shock absorber). I call this a 'hellandback' boat, because that's where it'll take you.
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28 October 2002. Lovely day spent with friends on the C&D Canal. At Elk River we stopped and I drove the kids over to a camp using the inflatable. First time driving an outboard skiff in about 35 years! This is Mary (L) and Rachel (R).
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August 2012. Amazing Grace, the 1999 C48 that appeared at Portofino (and thus on the cover of Ferenc Mate's book 'World's Greatest Sailboats') arrives at the shop for a refit. It has been bought by a world-renowned artist and has been renamed Light Reign. We've redone about 80 percent of this boat including all new Awlgrip, new rigging, and replacement of just about everything in the bilge.
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13 April 2012. C44 hull no.0, 'Emerald'. This is the original strip-planked boat that was built in 1973-75 by my dad, my brother, me, Frit and Lee. It was supposed to have been my dad's actual boat, for which my little Diana is named. That never happened because we sold too many boats too early and had to hurry into making a plug over it. It was finished in 1981-82 by a know-it-all engineer who apparently never asked a single question about what makes boats reliable, safe and easy to maintain. It has some beautiful woodwork below but also a hollow bowsprit with a galvanized-steel frame, no internal access to the stuffing box, a bilge completely full of twisted hoses, wiring and cable, and various fittings screwed straight into the planking with no bedding compound. Lee and I spent all summer resolving much of the PO's nightmares for the new owner, who sailed it south after October.
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13 July 2012. 'No, see, it goes to eleven. It's one more.' :)
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14 April 2012. Blockhenge, in the yard.
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31 July 2012. The very cool customized Igloo 5-day campers'-spec cooler. There is much more detail about this on the blog; but the plexiglass divider and grille are meant to contain cube ice while still leaving a space in front for tall items like milk and iced tea. The step of the ladder is hinged to allow one to lift the cooler lid.
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15 September 2012. Photo taken in the dark of my cute little mast step. Originally the boat's hatch shroud had a rounded front and a flat section moulded into it for the mast to stand on. I hated this for two reasons-- it's a Band-Aid over a bigger problem, which is having the mast stand on cored deck; and it doesn't allow one to ever take the hatch shroud off without unstepping the rig. I am cutting off the old shroud and building an old-fashioned mahogany spray board on the front of it-- and my latest brainchild is to include a Dorade box to each forward corner. The one to starboard will house a 12vdc fan; the one to port will house the 12vdc horn and deck outlet (the same as on C44s and C48s!). This was fabricated out of solid 1/2" G-10 plate and will be filled with epoxy mixed with microfibers and then provided with a healthy fillet all around. On top of it goes the halyard-block organizer and the aluminum mast step I am making.
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15 September 2012. Not the best picture of the coaming alongside of the companionway hatch. This mahogany butts into the molded coaming just forward and provides a hand-hold, a water dam and a place on which I can mount the dodger rail's feet. The halyard winches go outboard, port and starboard.
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19 September 2012. Right after I got the last of the bottom down to well-sanded gelcoat. I love this pic-- the boat looks about ready to fly off the stands. What a terrific hull shape this little boat has. (The bow is at a 60-degree angle to the waterline. This is my dad's trademark with the early Hunters.)
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25 August 2012. Under threat of rain all week I replaced the cockpit drains one and a time, so as to always have one active. The old ones were in the back bulkhead of the cockpit; they are patched in this picture. I would have liked the new fittings I got to have been stainless; the brass will go green in short order. But I may yet paint them in epoxy paint-- or just Krylon. I found these little fittings at Ferguson Plumbing and discovered my Forespar Marelon elbows screw on very nicely-- even a little too loosely; so they're loaded up with Teflon tape.
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14 April 2012. As I was stripping the bottom I noticed these ancient runes. I am no Hobbit and am unable to translate them. (They are cracks in the gelcoat. The hull is not wet however and sanding and Pettit Protect will resolve this.)
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16 November 2011. The 'Wire-O-Matic', the only sane solution for running wiring really anywhere. I made this one out of an extra Tempo battery box, drilling it to accept a piece of 1/2" CPVC which is held in by 1/4" clevis pins and even circ-clips. We've made them out of cardboard boxes at the shop-- but always it has to have a magic-marker label on it calling it the 'Wire-O-Matic' (or 'Hose-O-Matic' or 'Rope-O-Matic'). Obviously I have been sharing ground returns on some of these circuits-- using twice as much red as yellow.
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September 2011. Diana's bridge deck. I found this scrap of manufactured decking from the ruins of the 'Independence Cherubini' fiasco. The 2" teak planks come bonded edge-to-edge with Thiakol. I laminated this over a piece of 3/8" which was curved to (sort of) the crown of the cockpit seats. Prior to that I had filled in the lower section of the companionway hatch by laying up 'glass against the teak plywood of the inside, which I had left high here on purpose. The opening gets an ash threshold and new trim cheek pieces. The mainsheet traveler goes across the after edge of this little deck with a 2" wide backing plate and aluminum knees underneath. These in turn get masked by a facia board across the back which was originally going to house the compass; but I decided that was too far down to crane my old neck. It will have the engine start switch and switches for the instrument lights and the cockpit footlights however. So I may have the only Hunter 25 in the world with a teak deck! :)
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