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Must be for those long skinny oars that came with the boat lol ! Just kidding.  If I had to guess I'd say they were for your lines to keep your spinnaker pole from riding up but normally a better location is on the foredeck.

Kyle, my envelope with the money order was returned a couple weeks ago. It was stamped non existent address. Can you send me a good address so I can reimburse you . sorry for the delay, very busy. Oh I saw your post about your sink drain ,scary! That's something I'm worried about also.

This makes me feel ill. Gonna be a bit more than a wax job Mike. Wrong place at the right time , really sorry for your dilemma. But I'm sure you have some other creative idea stirring in your craw that was just looking for an excuse to come to fruition. Get back into that state of mind.

Hey Paul,
Do you mean the template for the chain locker cover or the portlights?  Pretty sure I still have the template for the the locker in cardboard and 1/8 luan.  PM your address and I'll look into sending it to you.  The portlight template is rented from Newfound Metals.  Info on the portlights is here - http://www.newfoundmetals.com/portlights/stainless-steel-standard/ellipse-stainless-standard

You can send it COD If you like to:
Paul Sproesser
205 Locust street
Frederick MD. 21703

That is a beautiful area up there. I used to deerhunt outside of Florence Wisconsin along the Pine river and traveled home one summer I was up there north through the U.P. And then across the Mackinaw bridge down through Michigan to get home. all the salmon smokehouses along the top of the lake were cool and I saw the Canada border crossing station. Closest I've ever been to Canada.

Very nice ! send me that template so I can save some time please!! I've wanted to do this also every since I saw mikes job. Just makes sense.

These would roll out prettier in the summer sunshine, but...  I'll take some interior next visit.  

     

Those look great!!! I haven't done mine yet and love those . where did you get them, how much did they cost and did you use butyl tape to seat them ?

Spent 6days and 5 nights at the boat 2 weeks ago repainting the top with nonskid poly and went over all the varnish and sanded and declared with a couple more coats of Epifanes.

Jerry, that's fantastic work. You and Ebb really set the bar high man.

I read somewhere 351 and production was stopped due to a lawsuit threat from Criscraft because at the time they were building a boat called Commander and didn't want Pearson using the name.

No worries, the association has them. I purchased 2 but I don't believe I will outlive the first one. Mine was completely missing and when we would hit rough chop, water would come up through it and get in the cockpit. When installing it use superlube or any NON PETROLEUM based lubricant to get it in place so the o- rings don't roll on you. And do what Ebb recommended with Reenforcing the tube base at the deck its a great and necessary idea.

Ben hope everything is well with you . hate to see your skills leave this forum and can't believe you sold Noesis. Are you getting a new boat? Thanks for helping me though, I think about your help every time I look at that plate I'm truly greatful. Would you be willing to make me one of those purple heart tillers. And if so how much?

Ben,  do you have to program your course with that or does it have a wind transducer?

Ahoy Captain Jeff ! Nice job on your interior work and if you get a minute and don't mind too much , would you be willing to send me your interior cushion measurements? That is something I didn't get with the boat and still need to do. It would be greatly appreciated as the drawings in the owners manual are not to scale. Thanks , Paul.

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EXAMPLE:
In tech school we were required to learn this and also conversion to Kelvin and Rankin. And we had to learn that and a lot of other formulas without the use of a calculator. And I've never needed it since. Nowadays all your digital thermometers will read either and your cell phone has an app for it. Another cool app I found useful is the inclinometer app which allows you to get the pitch of a fan blade or the pitch of your deck surfaces.
25°C......................77°F
x 2 = 50................-32 = 45
- 1/10 = 45...........+ 1/10 = 50
+32 = 77°F...........x ½ = 25°C

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Challenge is to find an instant step conversion. C to F:  
(found on internet - if I locate the source again,  I'll post it here.)  
F to C:   Harder but doable.
Can't think in Centigrade, I'm a Fahrenheit fan.
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C to F:   double C > minus 10% > plus 32 = F   (accurate)
F to C:   F minus 30 > plus 10% > take half = C   (close enough)

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F is literate.
C is laboratory:  at zero water freezes,  at 100° water boils.

F zero,  it's too frikking cold even in Denmark.  
At two digit 32° it's freezing,  but you got a chance.
At F 100°,  it's getting into a 3-alarm heat wave
(while in C scale,  it'll be 37.5° - close to freezing in my book.)

Fahrenheit is a finer tuned scale and more expressive.
98.6° is normal human body temp.  104° it's heat stroke or fever,
a 5.4° spread.  For emphasis, it  crosses  a two to a three digit gradient.
Celsius,  it's 37° and 40° - a 3° separation. Fahrenheit says it way better.
 
Holy catfish!   it's going to be over 37.5° today!  ....no, rilly?.....