Chrysler Sailors Forum

Took these Labor Day, we are sailing under Genoa only after a tear developed in the main and we dropped it to avoid further damage (as detailed in another thread). I am dragging my two sons behind the boat while my daughter in law (who soon followed into the water) took pictures.

http://www.byershome.net/_Album/2008/La ... borday.htm

What FUN! really nice clean boat...where are your lifeline and stern rail?

What do you use to clean/pain your topsides....

Wheel steerring...alright! you look so damn realaxed

also I am so puzzled..I have to ask the obvious..why the cut out in the wheel?

It never had a stern rail and I removed the life lines, I may yet put them back on once I get some grand kids running around on the decks. The wheel notch is so the mast will set on the pedestal (actually on a special block for the pedestal) when I am towing the boat down the road. As for the deck I just painted the deck a month ago (using Interdeck) so it still has that new look to it, it does clean up easily with some soap and water, far easier than the old gel coat was to clean up. Ironically I get it far dirtier setting up the boat at the ramp than when I am using it during the day.

" you look so damn realaxed "

That while pulling, at times, three people behind the boat using only the genoa (which I eventually dropped and pulled them around with the motor for a while), watching out for other boat traffic, dogging numerous crab traps, taking pictures and sailing/driving the boat single handed. It was lots of fun.

It never had a stern rail and I removed the life lines, I may yet put them back on once I get some grand kids running around on the decks. The wheel notch is so the mast will set on the pedestal (actually on a special block for the pedestal) when I am towing the boat down the road. As for the deck I just painted the deck a month ago (using Interdeck) so it still has that new look to it, it does clean up easily with some soap and water, far easier than the old gel coat was to clean up. Ironically I get it far dirtier setting up the boat at the ramp than when I am using it during the day.

" you look so damn realaxed "

That while pulling, at times, three people behind the boat using only the genoa (which I eventually dropped and pulled them around with the motor for a while), watching out for other boat traffic, dogging numerous crab traps, taking pictures and sailing/driving the boat single handed. It was lots of fun.

did you paint everything..even the "off-color" non-skid surfacees that On my boat are liek abeige color? how hard was the prep/paint job to do..

Yes I painted everything. It would have been easier in cool weather (and inside) but that's when the sailing gets best around here so I sucked it up and got it over with. I sweat really bad which made fighting the heat even more aggravating. I removed all the hardware and cleaned the surface. I then went over it with interlux 202 which is a form release cleaner and sanded everything with 120 grit sandpaper. I painted the white first covering the entire deck then came back with a second coat of white in the areas that were not nonskid. I then cut in by hand the non skid areas with two coats of beige. I used brightside paint at the hatch riser for both hatches including the area where the main hatch slides (I actually painted these areas first). To keep the hatch from wearing off the paint I put felt on the bottom of the hatch lip, this will also stop the lip from being worn off over time and having to rebuild the hatch lip which I did as part of the deck work.

Here is some additional info, I never seem to take enough pictures as work progresses........

http://www.byershome.net/_Boat/Chrysler/Misc/Misc.htm

WOW, no wonder you were sweating.. you painted those beautful curving beige nonskid edges freehand... pretty steady! what did you use to rebed teh hardwware and what did you use for backing plates...just washers?

Also...wheel steeringon the 22...pretty nifty and I love how youengineered ( and explained the process) rebuilding the lip on your hatch...sweet! Inow know I better "protect" mine and will do the felt thing so mine does not wear away..

3M 5200 to rebed everything. Everything in the noncore part of the deck (the rear of the boat) has wood blocking.
Cutting in the paint was not all that difficult, besides being part of my Carpenter skill set the non skid depressions help keep the paint in the right area.

well the carpenter part also explains the gorgeous "cup holders" and the no-nonsense way you went about repairing the lip of the hatch..

Nice work.

If you make it to Arizona, will trade labor for beer.