Re: P19 winter 1999 modifications

SolarFry@aol.com
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:31:25 EST


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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How about adding a dodger to the main hatch and avoiding all that cut and
paste?

SF

In a message dated 98-11-10 20:40:54 EST, you write:

<< Subj: Re: P19 winter 1999 modifications
From: Oldsurfdude@worldnet.att.net (Steven W. Barnes)
CC: wwpotter@tscnet.com

Clair&Edgar wrote:
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> Winter 2000 conceptual modifications;
>
> 1) I am still wrestling with this 4'-11" headroom issue. I was reading an
> article by Bill Creelock (SP?)( pacific Seacraft designer) regarding pilot
> houses, windage, etc. I am not yet finished trying to come up with a way to
> achieve full standing headroom in our P19. I am ready to get the skill
saw, some
> plywood, epoxy and fiberglass out and add one foot to the height inside the
> cabin. I have been sketching several concepts, the latest is to add 6" to
> the hull freeboard and 6" to the cabin roof (very basic description folks,
> obviously more involved than that). Add a Markeel (SP?) bulb to the bottom
> of the Keel, revise rigging length.

When desired modifications get to this level, it's time to get a bigger
boat. That's why I went from the P14 to the Capri 16.

--
Steve Barnes sailing a Capri 16, #74,
and saleing a Potter 14, #561, in San Diego.
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