Nomad
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Click HERE for the Nomad page!!! Welcome Nomad to L-36.com.
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Articles welcome
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Everyone is welcome to submit pictures and articles for posting on L-36.com. Just send me an email and I will create a page for your L-36.
Allen
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Update on Paniolo
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Update on Paniolo and article on BC L-36's. Click HERE
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Voltage Regulator for Gray Marine Alternator
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Rig Tuning
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I have not tried this but it looks like it would be a very accurate way to measure rig tension. Click HERE
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Woodwynd
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Letter from Woodwynd on some work. Includes several pictures of cockpit area. Click Here
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2009 Letter from Eros
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This is the Eros page with a number of letters including the latest from New Years 2010. Click HERE to view the page.
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Remembering Bill
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PDF Reprint of an article from 2006 remembering Bill Lapworth. Click Here
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Consentida
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Wild Wind has new owner
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Click HERE to see letter from new owner
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Leda II page
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New Leda II page is HERE |
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Loos gauge "accuracy"
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They didn't look very accurate to me until I found out that you have to do a little trick not covered in the instructions. Before that, I got readings at mid scale from two new Loos gauges that differed by 26% or more. See my write up HERE. Now my gauge agrees with what I know to be correct from the measurements discussed in the article.
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Papoose Page
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New Papoose Page is HERE |
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Cockpit Repair
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The story of repairing the cockpit area on Papoose is HERE |
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Olé
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If you want to see how beautiful an L-36 can look, take a look at Olé. Although it carries #7, it was built much later as this number was reserved. I am not sure when in the series it was built but it wasn't 2 boats past mine as it is of the new layout with the shorter cockpit and larger area below. Take a look at some wonderful shots provided for us all to admire. Click on the thumbnail or HERE
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Fleet Pages -- NEW
I am working on an index to pages for each boat in the L-36 fleet. Please take a look. Let me know if you want to change your boats page or add a page if one is not there. CLICK HERE to see the page.
Once everyone gets their page the way they want it, I will add this as a tab to the main index.
Allen
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Winsome III
Hi Allen,
Ran across your great website by accident
Just a little blurb to say WinsomeIII is alive and well, and will be sailing this year. Built in J Taylor's yard in Vancouver in 1958 for Ches Rickard, and now owned by Sarah And Mike.
She has had an extensive amount of work; 12 years of our time, and is looking quite lovely..
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Papoose 2009 Haulout
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Maredea
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What is the handicap of an L-36? Well, it depends.
CLICK HERE to find out
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Hull #10 owner gets advice from the list
Advice to the new owners of Hull #10 I had occasion to meet with the new owners of hull #10 on Papoose this weekend. It is a little bit apart and they wanted to see one together. It is an old style as is Papoose so it was useful for them to see a similar boat. As some of you know, the older cockpit is larger by 1 frame and the cabin is smaller. They have gotten many emails and I have documented them HERE Lots of good advice.
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Fresh email from Eros. 4/5/2009
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Bandaras Bay Regatta is a fun cruisers 3 day regatta held every March, sponsored by the Vallarta Yacht Club. Eros, now home based out of La Paz, Baja Mexico, made the 300 mile sail over just for the race. CLICK HERE for details.
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Hull #10 Update
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NEW: Just got some pictures that you can see HERE
I just received a letter from Karen and Jerry Huff, the new owners of hull #10. I look forward to some details and pictures in the future. For now the roster has been updated with what will become Mystic Puffin! |
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Woodwynd
A letter from a pervious owner of Woodwynd posted 1/28/2008
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Swift -- The early days (posted 1/22/2009)
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A letter from the daughter of the owner of Swift (#47) in the mid 60's complete with pictures. Click Here
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L-36 Class History
Some history of the L-36 class from Skip Allan
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Tuning the rigging
A letter by Bill Lapworth on how to tune a Cal-36,
and the instructions he put in most of the early Cal boat manuals including the Cal-40.
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New Swift Owner Contacts L-36.com
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Click HERE for the Swift page |
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The latest on Nyon
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A Page dedicated to EROS, Hull #40
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Repower
The question came up about repowering an L-36. Click Here for the discussion.
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Paniolo
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Click Here for new information and pictures about Paniolo, hull #50 built in Vancouver.
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Tricia
I got this letter someone whe grew up on Tricia and offers a little history of the boat (#23) and the northern part of the fleet. Click Here for the article
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Cimdayak
I got this letter from Nathan Clement with some picutres of Cimdayak. He thinks it is the old Sanderling, #69
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From Chris Messano
Neet website, my friend jack tatum owned jo too back in the 80-s.I used to race against him with my lapworth 32. The lapworth 32 was built in 1951 and was hull #1 chapman built it before his partnership with kalajian. The boat was monel fastned and was part of my life for 16 years. the original name of the boat was dancer, but while i owned it it was 42nd street.(i think it still is) i truly miss the boat like a lost friend, so it was neet to go through your website and remember it.
regards, chris
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From Odin Braathen
Friend of the site, Odin Braathen, writes us with some histroy on some of the boats.
In the 1963 Transpac, one L-36 participated name Jo Too owned by Frank Shelley and hailing from the Buccaneer Yacht Club. Tomorrow I will check the 1965 race.
In that era, Transpac Yacht Club required a season of racing to qualify the boat so as to not have "one-timers" participating.
HORIZON (Jo Too) also sailed in the 1965 Tranpac. BELLWEATHER sailed also, then owned by Tommy Pickard. Tommy later bought a Cal 40 which he also named BELLWEATHER. A third L-36 participated, YULETIDE, owned by George Yule.
If HORIZON is hull number 33, she cannot be constructed in 1963. Or, JO TOO is not HORIZON.
Regards, Odin
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New Eventide Owner contacts L-36.com
In an email from Greg, the new owner: I spent a lot of time at your website before making the decision to buy Eventide and really appreciated all of the information you've compiled.
I am very happy with the start of my adventure with Eventide - she's an amazing boat with an amazing history. She still has the red, white, and blue spinnaker used for the Argentina race in 1959 aboard. I'm looking forward to continuing her sailing days. I've been sailing on the Bay once a week in the last month and I'm keeping her in the same slip in Berkeley. I am still poking around and learning as much as I can about all the work Bob Griffiths did through the years. I look forward to learning as much as I can about maintaining her from other owners of similar boats. She's my first wooden boat and much larger than the Cal-20's I've owned in the past so I have much to learn.
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Jolie -- Recient contact L-36.com
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Robert G. Moore keeps Jolie at the Quartermaster Yacht Club in Vashon, WA. What a beautiful boat! |
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Chairman Bob
Long overdue on this page,
Remembering Chairman Bob
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Makamae
 What a wonderful Picture and story Anyone know the hull number?
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Wonderful article on Hull #49
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Click one the picture to see this very complete article on the restoration of Hull #49 up in Alaska. This is a very interesting article and much credit to Walter for putting it together for us. |
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Note from Hull #27
Hull #27 has been renamed Seafeather long ago and is located in Burton on Vashon Iland washington.
Extensively restored.
Owned by John and Diane Sweetman.
Picture on your server is Seafeather moored in South Sound off Penrose point. I have extensive photo selection of restoration including construction of new mast.
Naturally, being a wooden boat, restoration is not exactly complete as I have to now finish restoring the interior that I had long ago restored but had to take apart to replace ribs and refasten hull in various places.
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I have just received a letter from the new owner of Nyon #34
Allen,
I just found your site and I'm finding it a wealth of information. Thanks for putting it together and keeping it up to date.
My wife Kyra and I bought Nyon in February, (as seen on the add on your site). We are gradually fixing her up with offshore voyaging as a long term goal. We moved aboard a few months ago and find her to be warm, dry, and generally comfortable. We keep her in Victoria's Inner Harbour. So far we have focused our refit on interior systems. We have a bunch of photos of details of the boat, but as it happens, we have very few of the whole boat and none of the boat under sail. We are hoping to get a bunch of the brightwork addressed in the spring. After we get her prettied up, we will send along some pictures.
Attached are some Swiftsure race results and some L36 pertinent excerpts from a book on the early years of Swiftsure. Also, there is a photo of Winsome III, taken from the same book.
Rick Forbes
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New Photos from Electra
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Please Click Here to go to the Electra Restoration Project Page.
The latest pictures just received from Roger are included! Updated 11/25/2007 |
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| Click Here for article on the San Francisco Bar. Must reading if you are going out of the bay
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| Chariman Bob's list of concerns about L-36s This is a must read for any L-36 owner. I have addressed many of these and checked on most of the others. The next thing that gets me will probably be something on this list I didn't treat with enough respect.
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