Hello all! Do anybody have a user manual for O'day 32? I will really grateful if I could have a copy!
User manual for O'Day 32
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Konstantin
Old manuals are hard to come by. The manual for the O'Day 32 more so. This was a limited production boat.
It is NOT available on: http://www.iheartodays.com/manuals.html
What information do you need? You will have to piece your information together.
Ed K
O'26
Old manuals are hard to come by. The manual for the O'Day 32 more so. This was a limited production boat.
It is NOT available on: http://www.iheartodays.com/manuals.html
What information do you need? You will have to piece your information together.
Ed K
O'26
Yes I've been at ihertodays.com. But I hoped for good luck here 
I don't know what exact information I can get from this manual but I'm sure that it will be anyway useful to have the genuine manual. Right now I really need information around rigging adjustment.
I don't know what exact information I can get from this manual but I'm sure that it will be anyway useful to have the genuine manual. Right now I really need information around rigging adjustment.
Konstantin
Having rebuilt an old boat, I recommend getting out a tape measure and record all measurements of everything you have. Specifically measure all stays, mast and boom lengths, all lines that you got with boat. Also, such things a spreader measurements, lengths and sizes of all major screws and bolts, etc.
Also document what you have with pictures. Pictures of interior, ports, steering mechanism, gooseneck, sliders,etc.
As to information about rigging, what do you need? With O'Day boats, other boats may have same mast and boom. So measure mast and boom accurately and look at other boats by O'Day and see if measurements are same.
Too further complicate things, O'Day would put different mast or booms on same boats, probably to use up existing stock.
Keep asking questions,
Ed K
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Having rebuilt an old boat, I recommend getting out a tape measure and record all measurements of everything you have. Specifically measure all stays, mast and boom lengths, all lines that you got with boat. Also, such things a spreader measurements, lengths and sizes of all major screws and bolts, etc.
Also document what you have with pictures. Pictures of interior, ports, steering mechanism, gooseneck, sliders,etc.
As to information about rigging, what do you need? With O'Day boats, other boats may have same mast and boom. So measure mast and boom accurately and look at other boats by O'Day and see if measurements are same.
Too further complicate things, O'Day would put different mast or booms on same boats, probably to use up existing stock.
Keep asking questions,
Ed K
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Thanks! It's a really good advice. But I'm sure that it will be good to have
a genuine manual and get possibility to read it from time to time with glass of red wine
a genuine manual and get possibility to read it from time to time with glass of red wine
I don't have this manual but I do have all the manuals for every other piece of equipment that came with the boat or for new equipment that Have installed for example the engine,pumps,lights,radio's,toilet,etc.... probably the only information I do need is about the rigging like you but next time I take the mast down I'll deal with that information then
Ah, that elusive Holy Grail of manuals. My wife and I are looking at possibly buiyng one and just finished looking at the boat. I saw the binder marked O'Day 32 and then saw nothing in the binder. Someone must have one. The information may not be the greatest, but it probably would give some of us closure to be able to see one. Someone has to have one somewhere???
Keith said, "But red wine gives me a headache, I prefer sipping some tennessee whiskey."
While you are sipping sour mash, study this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyUu-8nbd58&feature=player_embedded
Ed K
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Addendum: Another method of building wooden boats is lapstrake, a technique originally identified with the Vikings in which wooden planks are fixed to each other with a slight overlap that is beveled for a tight fit. The planks may be mechanically connected to each other with copper rivets, bent over iron nails, screws or with adhesives. Often, steam bent wooden frames are fitted inside the hull. This technique is known as clinker in Britain and also as clench built.
While you are sipping sour mash, study this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyUu-8nbd58&feature=player_embedded
Ed K
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Addendum: Another method of building wooden boats is lapstrake, a technique originally identified with the Vikings in which wooden planks are fixed to each other with a slight overlap that is beveled for a tight fit. The planks may be mechanically connected to each other with copper rivets, bent over iron nails, screws or with adhesives. Often, steam bent wooden frames are fitted inside the hull. This technique is known as clinker in Britain and also as clench built.
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