Chrysler Sailors Forum

Right. I'll probably reach it by the end of the week. So I guess that means I am promising to get it out and take and post pics by the weekend.

While cleaning my basement, I realized I have a Chrysler bimini. I no longer have the boat and didn't use the bimini in the 15years I sailed her. The previous owner did use it as I sailed on it a couple of times with it up, so I know it works. Not sure how it was attached or deployed, but I recall a...

No boats, I am out of the climbing and DIY parts of hobbies. A broken arm and some other health issues did me in. The newly discovered zebra mussels in our lake sort of crowned it. However, I am have evolved my long time interest in a more stable (landlubber-type) hobby--astronomy. Spending more tim...

A red 1979 C22 will soon go live on the IAA auction site. https://www.iaai.com/Vehicle?itemID=27719642&RowNumber=2&loadRecent=True I don't have anything to do with the auction so not sure when it goes live. I had to give up the sailing hobby so I donated my boat to NPR. It took a while to ge...

Maybe. You would think it would have to be a lot colder. It was about 55 degrees (maybe less with wind chill) and it may have been a hot summer day when I took them off. My sister suggested leaving it in position and maybe temperature changes would make it work. I wanted to clean off the smeared cau...

At the risk of discouraging the newbies, with their new project boats, I turn to the Chrysler brain trust for some help. [It is still the best old boat out there.] I tried to put the toe rail on with two other helpers, it doesn't seem to quite fit. Initially, I had some trouble lining up the screws ...

Just started yesterday. Never too late to try it. I had great fun last year. A little more complicated to sign up, and the interface isn't quite as complex as last year. Has some "upgrades" you can buy to make it more competitive, but I am doing the "No money sailors" group with ...

Was there any old backing in there? If so what? Did your new holes go into it or did you make a new backing plate? Or none of the above?

When it rains it pours! One of each to choose from. The C-22 was a couple of weeks ago but . . . http://kansascity.craigslist.org/boa/3417449752.html Except I already have this one sitting on the trailer, five miles from the 22 and twenty-five miles from the 26, with toe rail detached and other proj...

Oh, you did undo the underneath screws. I was afraid that the fit of the shoebox lid might spring or something. But that makes sense. Thanks for explaining it to me. I'll think about that. I think I agree that there should not be caulk at the top. My 79 C-22 has more than one drain hole in the rubbe...

Very good description and explanations. This is where I am next, whenever we lose these 100 degree days. I've gone around once scrapping in the joint. Your video suggests I should do it again, incorporating your excellent hints on scrappers. I don't think that my hull-deck seam has that much space t...

I'm getting close to doing my hull-deck seam also. Probably after the 4th of July. I asked him a similiar question if the tube attached or if he used the bulk load--like cutting the tube open and smuching it in the cannister of the gun. He does the latter, the bulk load and added that " Took tw...

I'm over at Lake Jacomo--not in the water yet, still in "drydock" on trailer in boatyard, but expect to be by mid-summer.

Turns out that though my current spot, my "dry dock" on the trailer in the boatyard, was picked up by someone else in the lottery. To my amazement, the process left one open about 60 feet away. No problem! And it is that much closer to the electrical outlet. My wet spot, alas has changed. ...

I may have to move my boat from its current location in a couple of weeks. I have the toerails (and the related hardware at the bow and stern off of the boat. I have not removed the screws that hold the deck to the hull and don't plan to. I'm thinking if I only have to move it to the other side of t...

You can still register and play-- http://www.volvooceanracegame.org/ . It doesn't start you out at the beginning. They put you in kind of the middle of the back half of the pack.* There will be a spectator mode soon. UPDATE: KalipsoKai I (red boat)-I've been able to spend some time on this with the ...

So it looks like we now have four boats in the Volvo Ocean Race Game: KalipsoKai I (red boat)-me, taking up the rear guard at overall rank 47000+--a late start (somehow started off the coast of Lybia and went aground overnight off Spain). Finestkind I (blue boat)-- about halfway between me and the f...

Back to the pop-top, I was trying to visualize how propping it up with wood blocks would do--sort of how I raised the hull when filling the blisters. But that would block access to the deck under them. Then, I visualized a two-by-four frame rising from the cabin floor to hold it 4-6 inches above the...

I already have half the hardware removed for rebedding and I have decided to go the whole route and remove most of the rest of the hardware in preparation for painting the deck. (Epoxy on the dings and cracks, then I am going to roll and tip the Systems Three primer and LPU--but not until spring.) A...

Got mine yesterday. Today is probably the last 70 degree day to wear it!

Looks great. I'm in for two, an XL and a 2XL. I'd like the C22 pennant AND the C22 drawing if you will. Plus I'll include the extra donation for putting the boat name "DennyZen" (no spaces) on them. Looking forward to getting your address for payment and I'll likely order a couple more in ...

Alan: It doesn't look like either of those lights you chose are actually LED, so I'm guessing you ordered LED elements to insert. Which place did you find that were satisfatory quality and price? Or correct me if I'm wrong. I think I'm going to do this same thing: the latest "OEM upgrade".

Similar problem here, but I blame the cat burglar. I mean the burglar AND the cat. I had all my fasteners and screws for wood items nicely divied up and labeled in a tool box and several other other internal devices (thankfully, not critical to the sailing operation of the boat) in my car along with...

Ok....while I have my toerail off--anybody care to commen/speculate on if the Chrysler 22 has a similar construction at the hull-deck joint??? MarioG? Did it look anything like this when you took that one apart--I don't recall any thing like it--no wood-- in your pictures.

So question number one--do the procedures and tips for fixing the hull/deck anomalies with epoxy and filler also apply to anomalies in the vinyl liner? My guess is yes. I have a horizontal crack in the liner, port to starboard above the little donut bulkhead that is forward of the v-berth. (I will p...

I've done that trip to the hardware store for the little hacksaw, a couple of times in the last decade. Then, I just kept it with a flashlight in the stern lazerette where, the gas tank. I've had those little locks on the cockpit lockers AND the hatch, so there was no where to crawl. Now, its a pain...

actually, they go on the shrouds well below the spreaders. The curvy part wraps around the shrouds and i put them about 4 feet high above the deck on the the shrouds (also called side stays by some folks). Yeh, about the same as yarn, but my yarn seems to disappear--birds? Even the yarn I've threade...

my input is not boat input, since my boat is on the hard this summer. I vote for the cardigan welsh corgi--because I have one. I am in my third month of corgi ownership having just obtained a one year old cardigan. (which I like better than the Pembroke--which is known as the Queen's dog. The Cardig...

This is my number one WANT. And while I have the mast down, this will be the most expensive thing I've ever gotten or ever will get for the boat, I thinks.

It is the one thing that would allow me to single handle more often.

Please post 'em.

Are these fasteners in the hull-deck joint screws or bolts? I have yet to clean off the caulk on the toerail and on the hull-deck joint, before I rebed the toe and rub rails with 4200 ). I see the hull-joint is the shoe box type. The "lid" lip is only a about one vertical inch of fiberglas...