gb421009@earthlink.net writes: >Do we need a huge banner that says BEWARE---WE MIGHT BE >RUNNING OUR GENERATOR LATER---- or would a simple flag with a >lightning bolt >do?? :-) You got a smiling emoticon at the end of this statement. I think that you have actually a very good idea: to create a flag that indicates "Generator on Board", similar idea as "Diver Below" or "Quarantine in Effect" or "Pirates Present" (The Jimmy Buffet flag). Let's have some ideas from the list.

One could greatly improve ventilation by leaving all portholes open during the week. However rain will find it's way inside and really "dampen" your effort of drying the interior. A Nonsuch owner introduced me to a kind of eaves trough (he called them eyebrows) that mount over the top half of the opening port holes to keep the rain out but letting air in to ventilate. Available from any chandlery and WEST etc. Not cheap, but works for me. George of Scaramouche

rlchenry@mindspring.com writes: > The plastic (lexan) melted just a bit as the >tool went through, A way to avoid this melting cut is to have the Admiral or whoever follow your cutting with a barely turned on garden hose. This will keep Lexan and cutting tool cool and you'll have a clean cut.

>E16@telus.net (Garrett) marvelled: I've come across a truly amazing little Canadian made gadget for mooring to a buoy. It's called "EasyMoor" and attaches to the end of any threaded broomstick. You tie your mooring line to its 1/4" nylon cord with a sheetbend, stick the EasyMoor through the mooring ring and simply pull it back aboard. I bought one (at a local marine store) and find myself playing with it all the time as I continue to marvel at its ingenuity. Garrett you might be interested that "Practical Sailor" gave top marks to "EasyMoor" along with "Happy Hooker". Rated "Best Buy" in their October 2000 issue. George of Scaramouche1, Lake Ontario, Canada

zhyachts@pub.zhuhai.gd.cn writes: >Try to work a length of piano wire from outside to inside. Than two >persons, >one in and one out, can hold the wire, wrapped around pieces of wood >for >handles, and saw the frame out. Hmm, at a Toronto Boat Show a few years ago I bought a handful of "wire saws". Those are flexible wires with teeth all around and a key-ring on either end. I've seen them used (in movies) by prisoners to saw through jail bars. Mine were sold to saw through glass or ceramic. Now if you could get your hands on some of those and use them like the piano wire described above, you would probably make good progress. Just contact any ex-convict for the address of a jail-break supply house Don't look at me now - George of Scaramouche

alexh@gte.net writes: >This procedure works for just about any PC based text manipulation, >if you >have a Mac the procedure is probably almost identical (don't Macs >have just >one mouse button?). Decidedly so: MacMice have one button, one tail, one ball and one eye (in the shape of a partly chomped up apple). But our keyboard has one extra key - the command key - and once discovered, you'll never buy another WinTel machine.... George of Scaramouche P.s: "PocketMail", which many voyagers use falls in the category of "No Lengthy Quotes Please" since it uses Payphones or Cellphones (slow). However it has a neat option to read the subject lines and then mark only those posts you want to see. On the second access you then get those marked posts in full. Works very, very well! scaramouche1@pocketmail.com

wrussell@ccri.cc.ri.us writes: >Where can one buy 3/16" teak plugs? If your plugs are all one size and you need them frequently, why not buy a plug-cutter attachment for your drill? Walked through our local lumberyard store the other day and found that they are not at all expensive. And you of course could use up all sorts of pieces of scrap teak that way. Just my thoughts....

yourcaptain@earthlink.net writes: >Tell me if I'm dreaming gang A jet pump installed below the water line replacing the raw water pump on the generator and replacing the $400 pump on my 3 AC units plus salt water for any other use right down to fighting a fire or washing anchor chain...... Used to work for Sears and fix these babies after years and years of running on the farm. Some of the better models were made of bronze and should stand up to anything the ocean has to throw at them. Try it and report back in a year or so.

wrussell@ccri.cc.ri.us writes: >Has anyone ever refinished an old Shakespeare fiberglas radio >antenna? I'm >not talking anything fancy here, but I've got one that works well >but it's >surface has deteriorated. I thought I might give it a light sanding >and find >some kind of paint or product that I could brush on (read simple, >one-step) >to >reseal the fiberglas threads and make it look reasonably >presentable. Any >thoughts? > >Thanks in advance, > >Mel Knott Mel: Three years ago, when I got tired of the slivers from my Loran antennae, I gave it a quick sanding (with heavy gloves on) and put on the first stuff I could find in the locker. That happened to be Cetol - think I used two coats, maybe three... Works fine - George of Scaramouche

rbryett@ibm.net writes: > we would often build a >hard top 15 feet X 20 feet that weighed well over 1000 pounds. This >hard >top would then be mounted over the main after deck using pipe >stanchions >etc. As often as not we would then also install a crane weighing >about >three hundred pounds to lift a dinghy or PWC which weighed around >400 - 500 >pounds.<<< According to the Poseidon Formula, for every pound added above the waterline, one must add two pounds lead or other ballast below. This maintains adequate stability even in rough weather - unless of course adding the extra ballast has lowered the waterline sufficiently to allow the ocean access through windows and portholes. (In which case stability resumes at the bottom of Poseidon's domain).... Gg