My Ariel "Althea"...

[Richard]

sounds good...I think I'll have to get the engine out first!

[Tony G]

Richard
I'll chime in just because no one else has said this one yet, look on the mast head if it's down.  One day I just happened to notice the numbers 113 scribed on mine.  I've thought more than once that this was not the original mast for this boat and maybe someone just scribed it to keep it straight when transferring components.  Yet I'll shoot a hole in my own argument because that seems like stupid way to keep track of parts.  What shop would use hull numbers instead of make or name?  I dunno.  While you're in there tearing out the engine take lots of pictures.  I, for one, am a photo junkie.  Tony G

[Richard]

I've put a bunch of photos in my Yahoo Briefcase.  
These photos were taken during my two "survey trips" to clean out the former owners stuff and to drop off a bunch of my stuff.  A lot of the photos are not very interesting - I just took them so I would have a point of reference...the "before" pictures, if you will.
Most were taken during Memorial Day weekend which was rainy and overcast much of the time.  Some of them still need some editing...brightness, contrast, etc...but you'll get the idea.  A few were taken on my second trip, June 10 + 11.  I'll be joining the boat full time beginning August 4th to get her ready to go back into the water.  I'll be working and sailing on her at the same time.

photos of Althea

Enjoy!
Richard

[Tony G]

Richard
Hey thanks for the pics!  Wouldn't be a holiday without 'em.  I've become so used to crawling into 113 and seeing virtually nothing that it's a real pleasure to look in another Ariel and see how they look.  I miss that new akwardness and 'getting to know you' romance of a recently bought boat.  We specially liked photo SF~P5240049!!!!  Wow!  If you are looking for some 3/8" plates for your mast step beam we have a set we hopefully won't need.  Maybe we could swap for the engine.

[Richard]

Thanks Tony-
Are you sure you wouldn't rather trade your new laminated strongback?  Seriously though, if you had the plates made to the specs in the manual I may be interested in them, as I'm going to have to address my strongback problem sooner than later.

[Tony G]

Richard
I don't know if it's/they are per manual specs.  Just got off work and I'm too @!#! lazy to pull out  the manual and compare, sorry.  But I did find some pics!!!:D Just search the technical file for 'paranoia subsides' and there are candid photos of it insitu and lying free on one of the quarter births.  If you're really interested I'd get exact measurements for you to work with.  or else...

[ebb]

Yer mast compression post is a thing of beauty!

But, seriously,
my coach roof flares outward - how did you get yours so right angle rectangle?   Ver' interesting.

Got my glass out to count yer lams!  Stopped counting at 17.  If it's only  1/2" thick you could hang the ballast on it.  Pretty impressive... whot you use:  Pine and yellow glue?

Ever y thing is on a need-to-kow basis.  Boat inside looks mighty fine!!!

[ebb]

As must be the case with some, but certainly with me, I just accessed page one of this thread, and it is a different subject all together.

I just waited ( my pooter is ancient and very slow) until Capt. Airing's photo of his Ariel's beautiful cockpit area filled the screen.  Obvious to me, you, sir,   have an inboard, because you have no openimg into the lazerette thru the cockpit.  Superior detective work here.

What's interesting is that you don't have a traveler - but have the boom rigged in an 'A-form' off the molded pads at the back end of the cockpit.

On 338 there is no access to the underside of these nice risers, which obviously must have originally been planned for a standup blocks with backing plates.

Also notice that you have cowls mounted right next to the risers.  On 338 this would be impossible.  But I'm going to have to look.  338 had the vents (clamshells) mounted on the lid.

Well, obviously you have a bulkhead in there different than 338.  That was the basis of a question.  But let me ask this:  Your pushpit is rigged for sunbrella cloths.  Is this rigged for camping?  I like those floppy solar panels.  Again, those come out when you're anchored, or in a marina?

You don't sail with the bimini and solar panels up?  Thing is,  I'm going to want to do just that - with the floppy ones - I think.   Thanks,    Ebb

[Richard]

Ooooooohhhhhhh, aaahhhhhhhhhh....that's a sweet-looking new beam you've installed.  How long did the layup take?  How about thae installation, thus far?

[Richard]

Hey!  I'm no longer a "newbie"  

[Tony G]

Richard-congrads!  It all happens so fast these days.  
The beam is fourteen 1/4" lams.  the top lamination is pretty much sacrificial being it is ground to closely profile the...eh-hem...woobies(pardon technical verbage) in the cabin top.  It is made from white oak and glued with outdoor titebond.  After shaping and cutting I sealed it with epoxy.  I glued it in three sessions 5, 5, and 4 lams, about 30minutes work and twentysome hours waiting.

Ebb
There is some angle to the coach roof.  There is also a gap between the cabin liner and the structural top in the local of that bend where it comes from under the side decks and supposedly follows the rise of the cabin sides(35 dicumbobulated words).  that may ease some of the angle.  And the compression post sits on a bottle jack so I could hold the beam up, mark contact points then grind...hold the beam up, mark...grind...hold...you get the picture.  Oh yeah, we just type stuff and then Bill fixes it