Cabin Interior--Slider Doors

[Bill]

Pearson changed the backstay somewhere around #300 + - .  Originally, the bs was a straight piece of chrome bronze.  The later models were ss and they curved forward just as they ented the deck from below.

[Scott Galloway]

Mike and Bill,

Thanks for the info.

Regarding my tabernacle on Ariel hull #330: It was done the way nearly all sailboats in the upper Santa Cruz harbor are done. I have heard it called a "Santa Cruz Tabernacle, but around here we just refer to it as a tabernacle, and writers like Dan Spurr and Bruce Bingham also refer to this approach a tabernacle.

The mast does pivot about a foot above the main deck, but only because the mast step is on the cabin top, which is about a foot above the main deck. The mast step is generally a metal plate with risers on either side through which a bolt secures the mast. The bolt serves as a pivot point for the mast. The front edge of the mast is rounded, and generally a wooden block cut to the same radius is inserted in the bottom of the mast.
The bolt is run through this wooden block. The pivot plane is on a line parallel with the main deck defined by the line that runs from a shackle at the top of the starboard upper shroud turnbuckle through the mast step to a shackle at the top of the port upper shroud turnbuckle. The shackles on the port and starboard turnbuckle are connected by a Boom guy to the aft end of the boom to stabilize the boom as the axis of an Isosceles triangle defined by the three points to which the boom guy is attached. On my boat, the designer also decided to run the boom guys through blocks at either upper shroud attachment point and back to cleats on either side of the cockpit. This is a bit unconventional from other tabernacled boats I have seen locally.

Some boats also include a bridle which runs from the upper shroud pivot points to the bases of both lower shrouds. This bridle may, like the boom guy, be temporary, or it may be a permanent installation. I had my last boat tabernacled professionally, and no such bridle was included. My tabernacle worked very nicely without a bridle.

As far as the backstay chainplate on hull #330, the knee appears to have a cant to starboard (as installed). The chainplate bends sharply to starboard at the top of the topmost bolt, which seems dangerous to me, and the very top inch or so of the chain plate is twisted, probably as result of heavy use of the stay-tensioning device. The chainplate may have a slight curve forward by design, but the twist is due to cumulative strain, and I am not sure about the bend to starboard.

Sorry but this is a new boat for me, and as yet I have no photos. I will however and will be posting them to my Ariel page in time. I wanted to photograph solutions and not problems, however a picture really is worth a thousand words. Which is our limit in this forum by the way.

[S.Airing]

This is what I did on Sirocco,very simple just inclose the shelves and install doors.

[S.Airing]

Starboard side shelves door

[S.Airing]

Port side gally

[Scott Galloway]

The Sirocco,#205,Ariel photos are marvelous. Very interesting tratment of the main salon space. I assume that the starboard sette is no longer 74 inches long, since the ice box appears to take up some space at the aft end of what was once the settee. Do you happen to have some photos of the v-berth area. I am still considering options to modifications to that area on my boat, hull #330, and I am interested in your treatment of that area.

[S.Airing]

I dont have much for the v berth,too small for pictures,you are correct the starboard bunk is now a 4 feet long love seat.Its my favorite spot on the boat.I think that  the Ariel is only a 1 or 2 person boat anyway.

[Scott Galloway]

Thanks for the quick response and the photo of Sirocco's v berth. I see how you handled the port side shelf and the chain locker. Nice job. I have stripped and repainted my interior, and refinished all the wood, but I am still considering options for improving the interior design, and I need to deal with the faded and hole-riddled imitation wood formica. I agree with you about the Ariel being a one or two person boat. Due to the previous owner's very well designed and well built chart table arrangement, in the space where the ice box used to be, I do not want to build an ice box in that area. I am also not terribly fond of the head under the berth arrangement, and so I am looking for creative solutions. I am much impressed with your modifications to Sirocco. A photo of the chart table on "Augustine" is attached. Other photos of my boat in its current interior-repainted but margely unmodified condition appear on my Ariel page http://www.solopublications.com/sailarip.htm