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William Kevin Scanlon (westwightpottersofne@starting-point.com)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:24:54 -0700


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Hello Potterers,

Thanks to all of you who offer your very helpful, useful and FREE information and advice on how to better enjoy our great little boats. I’m a new WWP 19 owner from Boston and have what I’m sure are redundant WWP questions.

Also, I would like to initiate or assist organizing a New England area WWP owners association (possibly as a sub-chapter of an existing association, whatever works best). So if you’re from N.E. and an owner of a WWP or any other pocket or trailerable sailboat then please e-mail me so I can develop an e-mail address book to help gets us connected.

In N.E. we’ll be lucky if we get 3 or 4 more weekends of comfortable sailing weather, then we’ll have the long winter to wait for and dream of next season. Of course there are you admirable frostbite sailors who refuse to acknowledge an end of season and also the sun-belt sailors who’ll remind us of how well their winter sailing is going. Please e-mail me at "WestWightPottersOfNE@starting-point.com" if you would like to help organize a WWP N.E. chapter. We may want to develop a web page, news letter, group sails, social events etc … Thanks!

Questions:

1) Retrofitting: Can some of you share your experiences of installing radios (marine and stereos), stereo speakers and any attachable after market add-ons. How have you successfully installed these? Screws? Bolts? Super adhesives? Velcro? Bubble-gum?

2) How have you wired some of these components? When is it necessary to add a 2nd battery or modify the stock electrical configuration to adequately accommodate these changes?

3) Where (in a WWP 19 for me) are the recommended locations to install these add-ons and where SHOULDN’T we, other than the obvious of not drilling into and through the hull. Where may we safely and securely drill and bolt components?

4) Have any of you installed a mainsail traveler to the transom or elsewhere?

5) There are no winches on the WWP’s (can you tell that I just picked up my boat on Sunday and haven’t gotten it into the water yet). Are the kleets more than sufficient and are the sail sheets (lines) so easy to manage that this is a laughable thought?

6) The trailer: The former owner of my boat and trailer had the trailer tires inflated with 32 psi, the standard setting for automobile tires. The trailer tires side-walls list 90 max psi. Can any of you suggest the ideal "psi" for both safety and performance?

7) What is the maximum weight capacity of a WWP 19, this is one statistic I haven’t run across. On the same topic, what have you readers been finding as a comfortable maximum crew count? Are 2 adult males and 2 adult females all of average size and weight a crowd?

8) Many of us have the tendency or desire to prevent problems with our possessions by using our ingenuity, but, this can sometimes be short sighted. I have the thought of greasing the trailer extender to keep it from corroding and to make it slide in/out more easily? Is this a reasonable idea or is there some hidden danger in doing this. Is common axle grease ok or should some marine compound be used that will withstand salt water, i.e. probably the bearing grease? Is coating the trailers leaf-springs with axle grease a good idea to help keep them from corroding?

9) Hull Painting: Suggestions? Ideas? Recommendations? Best anti-fouling paint. Is it reasonable for me to attempt painting my WWP 19’s hull bottom over the winter while it sits on the trailer and in my garage? How much paint does it take to adequately cover a WWP 19 hull?

10) Mast Raising on a WWP 19. I have been reading some recent posting in regards to speeding up this process. Is it TO difficult to raise the mast while the boat is in the water? There are some convenient boat launches and marina’s up-river in my area, but you must travel under some low bridges from some of them to reach Boston Harbor. If anchored is not stable enough is temporarily docked enough?

Thank You!

Bill Scanlon
WWP 19, MicroShip, Hull# 870
Boston, Mass.
WestWightPottersOfNE@starting-point.com

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