Hi,  I have three questions.

I was almost up to stepping both of the masts on my Dawson and realized that something seemed to be missing.  Once the gooseneck slides into either the mainmast or mizzenmast track there does not seem to be anything to keep it from sliding down until it hits the cleat that is near the base of both masts.  I sure would appreciate a good description or a picture of how someone's boom/gooseneck is set up.  You can certainly post it here or you can email me at jackmharrill@hotmail.com.

I have another question on Bob Lengyl (I am not sure that is the right spelling).  Does anyone know where to find the whole story?  This is one that I would like to read completely.

The third question is on the cockpit mounted bilge pump.  I have taken the engine out of my boat and do not intend to replace it.  The pick-up line is there to the pump but the outlet side has no hose connection.  Where did this originally go to get out of the boat?

I have been working on cockpit drains since last fall and have a new idea.  I spent three days working on the boat and forgot the camera.  I will try to do better next week.

Thanks for all the help.
Jack Harrill

Jack,

Buy one extra.  You will eventually have one slip out and bounce across the deck into the drink !

Hi,  Thanks for the information.  I have not had a boat that needed the mast track stops.  I went over to Hamilton Marine today and they said that they had a couple in another store so would be here in the morning.  That was easy.  The downhaul is pretty simple and straight forward so that works.  Although I can not lay my hand on it right now I have almost all the original paperwork for this boat.  It was one of the 40K ones (of course you can't tell that now).  The owners manual goes into detail about raising the masts so I think I am ok on that although an extra line can not hurt in this situation.  Basically you have to raise the mizzen first then the main or it won't work out too well.   

I am still interested to know where the hand bilge pump goes out of the boat.  Mine works well, it just outlets into the port seat locker.  I don't see a patched thru-hull in that locker so it must have gone somewhere else.

On the Bob Lengyl story, I was really interested in reading the whole article if anyone knows where to go to get a complete version.

Thanks again,
Jack

Mine goes over the rail.  I might have the Lengyl article.

Bob

Yes that is how I do it.  If you are going to use the whale pump you have to open the hatch anyway, so no big deal.  I wish my long hose was a bit longer, as I end up catching some water under the starbord quarter berth in the forward cabin.  Not quite long enough.

I sent you the article via a utility called yousendit  it is a very large file due to scanning etc.  Very good read.  Would love to post in on the site though cannot seem to upload it.  If someone else has a site we could post it on, there could be a link from here.

Hoping to pick up my boat & new engine today!

Bob