[C38] Watermakers

Fri Sep 16 16:15:02 EDT 2011

Chuck, I have many questions about your route suggestion. Can I have your e-mail so we can discuss this off-list? Mine is Navion at Charter.net 

Thanks
Craig

From: Chuck Finn 
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 9:53 AM
To: Catalina 38 Listserve 
Subject: Re: [C38] Watermakers

Craig,
Might want to think carefully about your route.  The double whammy of the two hurricane/storms pretty much destroyed the Erie Canal locks near where I live (Saratoga Springs/ Amsterdam, NY).  Word is the canal will be closed for perhaps a year as at least two dams that control the water levels were pretty much destroyed.  Could be initial estimates are way off, but an alternative route might take you east of Ontario through the thousand islands area (beautiful) to the Richelieu River (Chambly Canal), down through Lake Champlain, the Champlain Canal, Hudson River and out.  
If you go that way, I can fix you up with moorings, etc. in Lake Champlain.

Regards,
Chuck Finn
Mighty Quinn  #114
Great Lakes

On 9/16/2011 10:39 AM, Craig wrote: 
  Rich, Thanks for the information. You are not the only one I have heard bad things from about the PUR watermakers. Unless somebody at the spring boat shows really wow zows me with something different, I think Spectra is the way to go for me.
            We will be leaving from Duluth, MN so out the Great Lakes, through the Erie Canal, and down the East Coast will be the first leg. After that, the BVI’s and Grenada. We have no plans and no time schedule, so from then on, we’ll just play it by ear so to speak.

  Steve, Also, Thanks for the information and I am very interested in your installation, but did not receive the pictures. If you would please resend them to Navion at Charter.net , I would greatly appreciate it.

  Craig

  From: Richard West 
  Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 8:12 AM
  To: Catalina 38 Listserve 
  Subject: Re: [C38] Watermakers

  Hi Craig, 

  We had a PUR (Kytadyne) 40 on Legacy.  I hated it!  We dealt with PUR first, then they became Ketadyn and just when I thought their customer service couldn't get worse, it did!  We had lots of problems with the unit.  We had the pump housing crack, seal leaks and one thing that was never solved: when we'd hit big chop or waves while underway, the unit would air-lock.  We'd run it for hours only to discover the air lock and that it'd made no water.

  Our unit made less than 1 gallon an hour and used about 8 amps to do it.  We recently took it off the boat and we're going to put on the spectra watermaker (200T).  I'm going to put it in the large void I have on the starboard side between the bow water tank and the drawers in the v-berth area, under the v-berth.  I already have a 7 gallon fresh water tank that the PO added to that space on the other side.  We'll put the intake filters, valves and monitor on the bulkhead immediately aft of the bow fresh water tank.  I did some measuring and it looks like it will just fit.  I'm going to make a cardboard model and try it to make sure.

  On another subject - what "blue waters and white sand" are you headed for?  We're leaving for the South Pacific in March. Just wondering if you're going the same way.

  Thanks,

  Rich, Legacy, #360, Los Angeles (Wilmington)

  On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Craig Steinkraus <Navion at charter.net> wrote:

    Has anyone ever installed a watermaker on their C-38. If so, I would like to know what type and where they installed it. As we plan on taking off for blue waters and white sand next spring, any help would be appreciated!

    Thanks

    Craig
    "Wings"  C-38 # 280
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Richard West 
      To: Catalina 38 Listserve 
      Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:08 AM
      Subject: Re: [C38] Skegs (not kegs!)

      Was this link on the list a couple of days ago?  Maybe I found it somewhere else, I don't remember.  Anyway, here's a great site that shows the Yankee 38 rudder clearly. 

      http://sparkmanstephens.blogspot.com/2011/03/design-2094-c2-yankee-38.html

      Rich, Legacy, #360, Los Angeles

      On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Max Soto <maxsoto at gmail.com> wrote:

        I've never seen a Yankee 38, but  I read that one of the modifications that Frank Butler did to the 38 was replacing the skeg mounted rudder for a spade rudder. Also said that the mast was replaced for a taller one with small boom, but still, hull #1 came with the Yankee  mast... So, who knows...  Could there be a 38 with skeg rudder??    We have noticed many differences between early and later models during this year, so who knows... Butler, perhaps??
        Regards,
        Max
        Sent from my iPod

        On Sep 14, 2011, at 18:29, "tdtron at earthlink.net" <tdtron at earthlink.net> wrote:

        > I sold my 38 but it was a 1981, hull  #95, shoal draft with a skeg mounted
        > cutlass bearing but the rudder was the same as on the deep fin models.  The
        > skeg mounted cutlass gave some additional keel surface to compensate for
        > the shorter keel but I don't think there was any difference in the rudder.
        >
        > Does anyone know if the Yankee 38 had a skeg rudder?
        >
        > Tom Troncalli
        > Recovering ex-Catalina 38 owner
        >
        >
        >> [Original Message]
        >> From: John Felkins <jrfelkins at gmail.com>
        >> To: listserve at catalina38.org <listserve at catalina38.org>
        >> Date: 9/14/2011 5:31:52 PM
        >> Subject: [C38] Skegs (not kegs!)
        >>
        >> Are there certain years that the Cal38 was built with a skeg rudder? I'm
        > pretty sure I've seen a pic of one but don't know if it's a mod. Thanks!
        >>
        >>
        >> John Felkins P.E.
        >> TN CEI Leader
        >> KCI Technologies, Inc.
        >> 7003 Chadwick Drive, Ste. 343 Brentwood, TN 37209
        >> Phone: 615-594-9127
        >> Fax: 888-854-4780
        >> www.kci.com
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