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Forum: Gear & Maintenance 1 Week Ago
Replies: 21
Views: 970
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Could a self-professed bafoon install 12V refrigeration?

It really depends.
I've known scullions and jack-a-napes to really screw that job up. Dolts, even poltroons can manage it if they team up, or at least get some advice from a varlet. Naves, never....
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 1 Week Ago
Replies: 20
Views: 716
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Getting sanitation hose over fittings

Seaduction is right. You need fittings made for the marine sanitation hose and if you're trying to use standard hardware store barb fittings, they won't fit. Don't know why that is, but all the hot...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 02-21-2013
Replies: 13
Views: 1,227
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Shipmate Gimbaled Gas Range

Propane hose comes in standard lenghts. They have a standard 1/2" (if I recall right) NPT fitting on each end that fits the stove and the regulator or solenoid. Use teflon tape. There should be no...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 02-10-2013
Replies: 3
Views: 343
Posted By VallelyJ
What's a Monitor wheel adaptor worth?

I switched to a tiller some time ago, then picked up a Monitor from a wheel-steered boat. I'm debating whether to keep the wheel adapter in case I switch back to the wheel someday, or just unload it...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 02-07-2013
Replies: 24
Views: 897
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Where do you keep your owner's manuals/info?

I store my manuals in 2 large binders, either held in plastic sleeves or 3-hole-punched.
I seperated the manuals between equipment that's attached to the boat, and that which isn't. That division...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 01-17-2013
Replies: 28
Views: 894
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Opinions and thoughts on purchase

I'd second Flybynight. Concentrate on staying on the boat.
You'll have plenty of use for a handheld VHF, though. And maybe spring for a good GPS, to use for navigating etc, rather than in an...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 01-16-2013
Replies: 15
Views: 1,086
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Climbing the mast

I'll second Marcusc130.
PS reviewed several systems a year or 2 back and one of their highly-rated climbing harnesses was a Petzl rock climbing harness with stainless steel hardware for a couple...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 12-12-2012
Replies: 179
Views: 40,886
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Wood, Diesel or propane bulkhead heating stove?

Odds are that the copper fitting isn't brazed--probably a compression or flare fitting, in which case you don't have a continuous line. If you just run a new rubber hose from the solenoid to the...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 12-05-2012
Replies: 12
Views: 703
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Running Rigging Vendor_Whos Best?

I've use Milwawkee Rigging's Ebay store any time I need rope. They sell New England Rope. Their everyday prices are good but the best part is that they're always auctioning spliced halyards and...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 11-15-2012
Replies: 14
Views: 879
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Storage Under the Companionway.....

Might you find more storage space behind the panel if you pull it out once you replace it?
Forum: Cruising & Liveaboard Forum 11-15-2012
Replies: 89
Views: 4,330
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: My Escape Plan - Insights Wanted

I thought the OP was wise to introduce the subject.
When you value self-reliance, as we all do, then you plan for future contingencies. Those include possibility that you'll need something to live...
Forum: Cruising & Liveaboard Forum 11-14-2012
Replies: 89
Views: 4,330
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: My Escape Plan - Insights Wanted

I haven't read all the responses to your post so pardon me if I'm repeating what's been said. Or maybe I'm contradicting something that's been said, in which case don't pardon me.
I hope you aren't...
Forum: Cruising & Liveaboard Forum 11-13-2012
Replies: 30
Views: 2,543
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Good east coast retirement cities?

Thanks again for all your ideas and info.
It's a huge country to look for one small house in (especially one that's not necessarily on the water) and it is tough to know where to start. The...
Forum: Cruising & Liveaboard Forum 11-12-2012
Replies: 30
Views: 2,543
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Good east coast retirement cities?

Thank you all for the replies. I'm tempted by the warm weather in the south, but even coastal Maine will be milder than what I'm used to.
What I really want (besides the usual concerns like...
Forum: Cruising & Liveaboard Forum 11-11-2012
Replies: 30
Views: 2,543
Posted By VallelyJ
Good east coast retirement cities?

Wife and I are looking to retire and get out of upstate NY. I need to buy a house somewhere between central Maine and the Carolinas that's a good retirement town and where I can put a mooring for my...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 11-05-2012
Replies: 2
Views: 342
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Single side band radio

I researched SSB's in the < $100 range a couple of years ago. Opinion seems to be evenly divided between Chinese-made Kaito, Sangean, Grundig, Radio Shack and the more expensive and technically...
Forum: Electrical Systems 11-05-2012
Replies: 15
Views: 612
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: AC light fixtures

Thanks for the responses.
This year was the first time I was in a slip rather than moored, so I'm new to the shore power thing. I have a couple of 120v lamps that I plug into various AC outlets,...
Forum: Electrical Systems 11-04-2012
Replies: 15
Views: 612
Posted By VallelyJ
AC light fixtures

I've gotten tired of dodging lamp cords at night and want to look into permanent 120v fixtures. But for some reason, I'm having trouble finding any.
Are there light fixtures--flourescent or...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 11-02-2012
Replies: 86
Views: 5,514
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: I'm truly at a loss for words...REALLY!

I don't know about that idea, SloopJonB. He might look down his nose at you if you don't own a boat.
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 11-01-2012
Replies: 86
Views: 5,514
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: I'm truly at a loss for words...REALLY!

Right. Ship on a Shingle brand. West Marine has them. But they aren't cheap.
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 11-01-2012
Replies: 86
Views: 5,514
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: I'm truly at a loss for words...REALLY!

That could very well be, neverknow.
Or, he might have paid twice what they're worth. In which case, we should welcome him as one of our own.
JV
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 11-01-2012
Replies: 86
Views: 5,514
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: I'm truly at a loss for words...REALLY!

I know what the 'beyond the pale' means, SJB--my point, put a little too obtusely, was: who are we to say where that line is? Look at the tone of some of the posts in this thread.
I'd buy him a...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 11-01-2012
Replies: 86
Views: 5,514
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: I'm truly at a loss for words...REALLY!

It ain't about the shingles.

With no disrespect to the auther of the above,
It's about the pale.
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 11-01-2012
Replies: 86
Views: 5,514
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: I'm truly at a loss for words...REALLY!

We ought to congratulate the green-and-black guy for doing and not just dreaming. Practical Sailor could earn some of their exorbitant price if they would track him down and monitor his boat, like...
Forum: Gear & Maintenance 10-30-2012
Replies: 13
Views: 554
Posted By VallelyJ
Re: Woodworking advice needed

I'd be concerned about the stiffness. The problem isn't so much that one big wave is likely to damage a weak spot.
The boat flexes continuously in water. Repeated minute flexing in a weak area,...
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