Pics of trip up the SF Bay

[dmede]

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Anuska, my friends 26’ 1963 Century Clipper needs some transom work and new bottom paint so this past Friday we delivered her from her (new) home port in Redwood City to KKMI at Point Richmond, a trip of roughly 30 nautical miles.

We arrived at the dock at this strange time of day where it is technically morning but the sun is not up yet. Weird.

All in all it was an uneventful trip, took about 3.5 hours, less time than we estimated. KKMI will haul her out today and start work. They believe the aftermarket trim tabs may be causing stress on the transom and letting water in, so they’re coming off. Tighten the transom fasteners, re-caulk where needed and paint the bottom, good as new! ;)

Here’s a flickr link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37327498@N00/sets/72157594341505602/) to more pics from the trip up the bay. I was surprised by how fast we made the city, makes daytrips by boat plausible. Wish I had more shots, I'm no JCSOH, enjoy.

dave

[pcford]

Boy, I would not think that the trim tabs would have an effect on a healthy transom.

Learned to sail out of the Berkeley marina. Wonderful day sailing but I presume that that stretch would not be the most comfortable in a powerboat. Probably the reason you chose the hours that you did to make the trip.

Nice pictures by the way....got to get back to the Bay Area....still know a couple people.

[dmede]

Yeah, nice and early beats the bay chop. We got lucky though, it was pretty calm all day long, could have made the trip midday if we wanted. Anuska is a lake boat really, and it can be uncomfortable in the steep, close chop that builds in our part of the bay.

The trim tab thing was speculation on the yards part after a cursory look at the inside transom framing. They’ll look again once she’s out of the water. They felt that years of extra pressure form the tabs acted as a lever, twisting the frames they are screwed into away from the inner frame members (apron?). That or the fasteners were not properly drilled for and when driven home pushed the inner frame away from the outer planking a little. At any rate they said the tabs were not original and could be dumped with no real effect on handling.