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Date Posted: - Wednesday - 08/ 9/06 - 10:17pm
Author: Steve Cox M32 Pyxis
Author Host/IP: c-71-231-245-50.hsd1.or.comcast.net / 71.231.245.50
Subject: Rebuild sequence
In reply to: Randall, M31, Murre 's message, "Sequence on Murre" on - Wednesday - 08/ 9/06 - 9:57pm

The place to start on Pyxis has turned out to be the lower cabin top. I started to remove the handrails and hardware in this area and found a rot spot that has turned into rot through the cabin top and into the main beams supporting the mainmast step. The water intruded where the wires came out to go to the mast and ran down the starboard side. The beams are gone, the cabin sides are rotted for about three feet and I havent't gotten to the deck yet but I want all of it out. It seems like the sides need to be off before the deck can be fully inspected and removed. The cabin top needs to be off so the bevel can be cut in the cabin sides before the top goes on. The cabin side on Pyxis is essentially one piece with an airplane scarf about where the cabin changes height. The original sequence of construction seems to have been side decks, cabin sides, then cabin tops with the framing thrown in somewhere in the middle. I am a cabinetmaker by trade with a degree in boatbuilding to boot so the construction details don't bother me but the boats aren't built like anything I have seen before so I'm having a hard time thinking through a construction sequence without tearing the whole boat down to the sheerline.

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[> [> [> Sequence -- Peter Truog, - Thursday - 08/31/06 - 6:41pm (tide535.microsoft.com/131.107.0.105)

I don't have to do the top, but I started with the bow of the deck and have been moving slowly aft. I have removed the cabin top side (port) and have had to replace one small piece of the framing that adjoins the top to the deck near the coaming (the freezer there has caused quite a bit of rot to the framing around it).

Thanks for the reply Randall, I always enjoy reading your steps as you give good details on what you did etc.. (and of course you were there first. :) )

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[> [> [> [> Neither first nor last -- Randall, Murre, M31, - Saturday - 09/ 9/06 - 3:30am (c-71-202-21-190.hsd1.ca.comcast.net/71.202.21.190)


Thanks for the comp, Peter. I remember reading in some old crusing book about a guy who bragged he would be the first man to single hand around the world and NOT write a book about it. Sadly, that would not be me. I like the writing-up almost as much as the doing-of.

No, I weren't there first, man, and you know it. :)

RR

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