schematic or design for original drop boards

[JamesLakeOnt]

Hull number is 3*@#. Not hull number 3. 351 or around there. Having the boat moved to StCathrines on the Southern shore of Lake Ontario. Keep it on the hard for a few day to get it ready for the water. Hope the rudder will be okay. I think it will be having past experience with wooded boats. Hate for the thing to rip off while out in a good breeze. Let you al know what the number is when I see it next. Have had three visits... long drive. Last time rented car to out and mkae payment in full and get the interior a bit cleaner. My luck the temp was below 4C. Next day it was above 18C and I was home pinning away. Things will come together soon. They always do. Thanks again. Still need the measurements for the companionway drop board. Lots of work to be done. Looking forward to it all. When I'm done I plan on having a boat that is better then what the designer had in mind. I will have to post pics. With the help of this owner site and my own past experience both commercial and pleasure I plan on comming up with something special. I'm hoping for lots of input from fellow sister vessel owners with lots of theory and experience. I've been planning for the last couple of weeks with research mostly on this site and with soem other sources like books, and other sites. Gotta love this site. I am sold on the Pearson Ariel. What gets me is I've neard of one prior to comming across the one for sale which I bought as is. It sure is the perfect boat for me at the present. I'm blown away by th boat and the owner site. It is all something terrific. These boats are special. Thanks... James

[JamesLakeOnt]

Thanks for the quick reply. Very much obliged. Will try that. Carpenter friend has offered to throw that together for me. Will make a worl of difference for me. Renting cars and going back and forth is expensive. Looking forward to having the boat moved to a Port Dalhousie, Lake Ontario in the next few days so I can begin intensive work. I have lots of plans for the boat after the main structural problems are dealt with such as a recore of all the decks. I bacame used to owning steel boats with the last two being HO-28's. Looking forward to working with fiberglass again. Obviously retaining structural strenght is more important with fiberglass boats. I love a challenge and the rewards that come with a job done right that involves advance research and grey matter gymnastics and not just brute strenght. Thanks again to all. I have found this site more informative then all the books I've ever read.

[commanderpete]

What is it with you and Frank, the other "Can Do" Canadian?

You guys think you can just come down here and rip apart a boat and put her back together in a few weeks, better than new?

No Way. That's not how we do things. You have to spend months and years moaning, kvetching, cursing your fate. One step up, two steps back. Get it right on the third try.

Please be guided accordingly.

[JamesLakeOnt]

I've spent the last ten yers restoring wood, steel, and fiberglass boats, and have been a live-a-board for most of those years in England and Canada year round. I've even patched up the odd rubber boat. The key to getting the work done in a timely manner is first off having the time, second planning with hours of research involved (which this site is great for as are many books out there. I spent three years in the army as a supply tech. When it comes to organization and planning the key is strategy and knowing that long range planning and strategy are seperate things in themselves. One must be strategicaly focused. Whatever can go wrong will go given the circumstances. Planning and here and now strategy must be based on this. What I realy love about this site is the are the competing points of view on any given aspect relating to any facet of the boat. This by far helps with Strategy formation... present ideas, thought about, discussed, and then acted upon. Assessing effectiveness is the key to strategic thinking. There is nothing better then assessing effectiveness and organization. All part of the effort to set strategy. What is the amazing about this site is that critical questions are raised in respose to many of the threads.
Clear definition of strategy... Why, why, why. Critical questions. Organizing information, materials and so on. How to get there? Long range thinking.
One needs momentum and direction to properly organize and keep on track. If one does not have a clear cut strategy it's useless. One also needs to be able to reassess strategy periodicaly as need be. All efforts need to be set stratigicaly and based as such. During the implimentation of strategy things do tend to arise such as threats and oppertunities, which can be avoided or pursued. With Organization of any project it is always best if possible to keep up momentum. This is something I learned in the army. Momentum is a powerful asset and should be kept fine tuned and at the readt. It is an important tool. When restoring a boat in any condition it is very important that you look after yourself and anyone is helping. Water for the body is the best fuel. Drink lots to keep going. Very few people relize that water is in fact more important then food. To some it may not seem that way because of the types of food and other liquides they put in their bodies. What actualy happens is that their bodies are ridding toxins with the help of the water and it can slow them down, effect their mental state and result in a mess. Having worked in a boat yard and crewing on cruise ships I can say that Spirits/ booze and boat restoration don't mix. I've seen very large expensive boats suffer terrible structural damage with a drunk boatyard owner operating the travel lift. When fiberglass hlls have problems in travel lifts it sound like bones breaking. Not good. I have to tend to a friend who is sick and must go. I w anoter thread later this evening. Please feel free to take the piss. I have not yet fully communicated my point. PS: the fact that the Pearson Ariel is missing mny features of a true blue water boat leads me to believe either the producer ever really intended the vessel for true off-shore work or the boats where made cutting corners, leaving things like gaskets up to the owner(s)  if they need such modification to make the boat safe with the lockerd secure.
By the way the boat is being moved on Monday to a lake side. currently it is land locked sat in the middel of no where with several other boats waiting to be launched, I have decided on one week on the hard at the marina to prep the boat. If you do see HORIZON MARINER out there ( will bne sailing down South through ther Intracoastal waterway for he best part in the Fall to escape another brutal Canadian winter. I've already sold my igloo and am all ready for when the bpat is ready. Any salt water suggestions would be much apprieciated. Thanks to all on this incredblesite.  
Will add another thread later. I'm addicated. The pearson Ariel is a  wounderful boat. I'm not going to spare any tiem or what little money I have making it a custome Areil.

[c_amos]

Water for the body is the best fuel. Drink lots to keep going.......
 
....... What actualy happens is that their bodies are ridding toxins with the help of the water and it can slow them down, effect their mental state and result in a mess. Having worked in a boat yard and crewing on cruise ships I can say that Spirits/ booze and boat restoration don't mix. I've seen very large expensive boats suffer terrible structural damage with a drunk boatyard owner......
 
 
 
.....Please feel free to take the piss. .....
 
I have not yet fully communicated my point.
 

Point taken sir, after all that water, I think I shall need to.
 
 
 
James,
 
Welcome. You shall fit right in here sir. You are among kin(dred)..
 

PS: the fact that the Pearson Ariel is missing mny features of a true blue water boat leads me to believe either the producer ever really intended the vessel for true off-shore work or the boats where made cutting corners, leaving things like gaskets up to the owner(s) if they need such modification to make the boat safe with the lockerd secure.

I agree, I think it was the mix of the business model and the genus of Alberg.
 
 

Thanks to all on this incredblesite...... I'm addicated. The pearson Ariel is a wounderful boat.

Could not agree more.

[commanderpete]

Damn! No beer?

Now I'm really gonna moan