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Auxiliary Power, Engines and related
Beta 10 2 cylinder Diesel
Electric Motors - a Discussion
Minn Kota Electric Trolling Motor - a field trial
Ethanol - fuel and water
Gas Inboards - the Palmer Engine and related; Atomic 4
The Atomic 4
Palmer 27 Engine - a work in progress
Palmer 27 Engine Operating Instructions Manual - (copies of a 50 year old manual - light but readable)
Palmer 27 - a discussion
Passage's Palmer 27 Engine - a waiting game...
Motor Space - that space for inboards under the bridgedeck and between the quarterberths (also known as the "black hole of Calcutta")
An intimately related subject - the centerboard winch and its pennant tube guards the 'black Hole" (also see below)
Aspara's 1GM10 Yanmar Engine Cover
ROWDY's engine compartment and hatch
Outboard Motors - Comments and more (updated June 2, 2019)
Marionette's 4hp Outboards
A discussion between webmaster Ron Breault, and Mark Steinhilber, marine architect
Outboard Motor Boom Lifing system - Amaya, Yankee #95, (July 4, 2018)
Outboard Motor Cover falls off - a fix
Propellers - A start...
Rowing and Sculling a Dolphin - A start
Transom Motor Wells, Plugs, Cutouts and More - a discussion (updated June 2, 2019)
Marionette's Transom Hatch, Engine locker and Related
Calmante's Transom Plug System
Yankee #80's unique motor pushpit lift system
The Bucket System (protecting your immersed prop and shaft from barnacles)
Yankee 140's Companionway Ladder Outboard Motor Storage system
Exhaust Fumes and Noise Issues - a Fix
Yanmar Diesels and related
Aspara's 1 GM10 Yanmar Diesel and Engine Cover
The Flicka 20 Yanmar 1 GM10 website article
Tern's Yanmar 1 GM10 Diesel
Maya Elena's Yanmar 1GM10 overheating problem and the 1GM10 parts catalogue
Vire Inboard engines
Volvo Penta - Rusted cooling pipe - Check comment dated October 6, Sloop du Jour
Barns
A Dolphin Barn - Marionette's
Marionette's Barn Workshop
Maya Elena's Barn
Windswept (too)'s Barn (updated May 6, 2017)
Boat Naming
A Website Primer/Disclaimer
Centerboards
Centerboard - Performance, Materials, and related
Centerboard Pin
Centerboard Winch, Control Line Tube, Repairs, and Related (updated March 8, 2016)
Centerboard Winch Extraordinaire - Passage's winch
Centerboard Repair Project - Two Moons, Pacific Dolphin #250
Centerboard Repair Project - Canopache, Yankee #188
Centerboard Repair Project - Yankee #227 Note: includes measurements for this foil shaped centerboard
Centerboard Trunk Repair Project - Yankee #227
Centerboard Related Discussion Thread - on the Forum
More on New Centerboards, Centerboard Pins, and Repairs
Replacing the Centerboard Pennant - Marionette, Marscot/O'Day #12
Replacing Wada's (Yankee #190) Centerboard
Yankee #204's High Density Polyetheylene (HDPE) Centerboard
An intimately related subject - the centerboard winch and its pennant tube guards the 'black Hole"
Sea Fox's new stainless steel centerboard and winch system
Savili's centerboard winch repair
Design Drawings, Sail Plans, Arrangement Plans
O' Day Arrangements Plan, S&S #1497-3, sail plan/inboard detail, April 16, 1959 (including headroom comments)
O' Day Sail Plan, S&S Drawing # 1497-4, April 15, 1959; Also Sail Selection Comments
S&S Design Plans and Plan List
Shaw 24 Blueprints
Yankee Arrangements Plan, "Kantola" drawing, March 27, 1967
Yankee Main Sail Dolphin Logo
Dinghies and Related
Overview and Comments
Blue Gum's Dinghy
Marionette's Dinghy - 'TEER (updated November 14, 2017)
Marionette's Other Dinghy - Pup
Recovery's Dinghy
'TEER's Skeg Dolly
Mischief, a wooden pram
ROWDY'S Dinghy, a 'wheel barrow' boat
Dodgers, Tent Flys, Biminis, Covers and Related
Covers - Hatch, Lazarette, Tiller, Mainsail, and More
Dodgers and Flys
Pelagos' Hard Dodger (updated October 30, 2015)
Blue Dolphin's Dodger
Winter Covers
Electrical and related
(A) Discussion of Wiring
Marionette's Battery Locker - battery, charger, inverter and related
ROWDY's Battery Lockers
Masthead Light (on a pig stick)
Overhead LED Galley Lights
Starter/Voltage Regulator Problems
Barbara Joyce's Solar Panel set up.
Makarios', Yankee #241, Battery Locker, cables, switch and panel setup
Fin Keel Dolphins Built in New Zealand
S&S 24s, Falcon 24s built in New Zealand - The Home Page - A History and Roster
S&S 24s, Falcon 24s - Their Roster
S&S 24 Sail Plan
S&S 24 and Falcon 24 Sails
Technical Information on Falcon 24 Hull Construction, Keel Bolts, Depth Sounder/Location, Log
Test Report, S&S 24, NZ Yachting and Boating, June 1976; New Boat Ad
Hardware, Fittings, Rigging and Layouts
Hardware, standing and running rigging, blocks and Line - Interactive and other guides
Chainplates, Stemhead Fitting, Masthead and related (Blue Gum)
Jib Furling Systems
Jib Leads and Genoa Track
Ladders - fixed, portable, man overboard
Pushpit (stern pulpit)
Reeving Internal Halyards (updated August 31, 2020)
Rigid SS Boom Vang (Aspara's)
Rigging your boom - vang, cunningham, main sheet, outhaul, traveller control line, reefing hooks, etc.,
Spinnaker running rigging set up
Transom Lifelines (for Dolphins w/o pushpits/stern rails)
New, solid stainless steel, stanchion posts for lifelines, and lifeline cover repair
New Stanchions for Makarios, Yankee #241
Bronze Winches - #99's winches and a bit of history
Self Steering gear - Blue Gum, Falcon 24
Wind Indicators
Door Button Latches
HEADS (updated June 6, 2019)
Heads, Holding Tanks, and related
Holding Tank - Blue Gum's
Head Hose help - Misstress' Mystery - a work inprogress
Marionette's V-berth, head, holding tank system
Blue Dolphin, Yankee #246's Composting Head
ROWDY's Settee mounted head
The C Head - a composting head/Dolphin owner exchange
Hoses
The start of a discussion
Interiors
Anchor Locker (Marionette's)
Boethius, Yankee #149 - Galley and Dinette
Cabin Table Modification - Windswept too
Convertible Dinette Table - (Marionette)
Door Button Latches
Electric Fridge and Galley Box - Fire Escape, Pacific Dolphin # 299
Galleys - Marionette's Galley Windsong's Galley Blue Gum's Galley .ROWDY's Galley Paper Moon's Galley/Stove
Galleys (Sliding type);;;;;Kiwi's;;;;; Seminole's ;;;;;;Thankful's
Galley Sink (twin drain and plumbing) and a neat fold down galley seat - Blue Gum
Galley LED overhead lights
New use for Galley/oven space - Yankee #109
Hanging Locker Conversion to Drawers (Suzanne)
Head Room Measurements
Interior - Cove Dweller
Interior - Madalyn Joy, Yankee #227 - Dinette Table; Stained Glass! Galley Doors; Spray painted forward cabin
Interior - Spectra
Interior - Yankee 109
H & L Marine Woodwork, Inc - Yankee Yachts former wood parts supplier
Marionette's Table (and Entertainment Center)
Marionette's V-berth, head, holding tank system
Marionette's V-Berth Privacy Curtain
Painting Interior FiberGlass
Quarterberths (a work in progress...)
Rowdy's V-Berth Reconstruction and Anchor Locker
Sea Going Interior - Davarsa, a Falcon 24
Storage idea - check out Equinox, #237, June 27, 2019 post
Tiana, S&S 24, Interior make over
Under the Bridge Deck (Marionette's set up) - companionway steps, centerboard winch, under bridge deck lockers, engine storage, refrigeration system, electrical panel, etc.
Under the V-Berth/Forepeak - an improvement project (Aquilla, #273)
(Another) Under V-berth locker - Aspara's, Yankee #153 (and tips on getting a hand rubbed satin finish on your varnish)
Ventilation - A Work in Progress
Mermaid 24
MORC S&S Specification # 1497-S, December 10, 1959
Wood Dolphin
Miscellaneous
About Adding Ballast - Olin Stephens Dec 5, 1967
Awlgrip - Ruby's paint job
(updated April 7, 2014)
Bilge Pumps - a work in progress
Checklist for buying a used Dolphin
Depth Sounder (Echo Sounder) Installation
Dolphin casting - a nice touch
Drink Holder for Dolphins with wood combings
Eyebrows - and sidelights - a Discussion (updated April 7, 2014)
Identifying Early 'O'Day" Dolphins - Marscot, Lunn, O'Day, Tripp built (a work in progress)
Ladders - fixed, portable, man overboard
Lifting a Dolphin - A thread on the Forum
Nameplates and Builder's Hull Numbers
Outlaw 26, a fin keeled O'Day built boat named Windswept, with Dolphin like features
Performance Improvements - John Meade/Rod Stephens memo, Nov 8, 1968
Review - By Ted Brewer, Dolphins Galore, Good Old Boat, Sept/Oct 2005
Ronspeg - a system for locking seat backs, table legs, and tables in place
Shaw 24 (Arlette, Hull #8) Technical Specification
The 'No" Travel Lift system
Thru Hull Fittings and Seacocks - a Discussion
WaterLine length Measurement
Weight - some numbers
Windspeed and direction - anywhere in the world
Models and Half Models
Dolphin 24 models and model builders
Portlights, Repairing and Replacing
Portlights - a new look
Portlights and Gaskets
Portlights as an builder identifying tool (a work in progress)
Plastic Portlights - cloudy, scratched, etc., - a fix
ROWDY's Portlights
Marionette's Portlights
Pacific Dolphin #262 - new portlights (updated February 7, 2022)
Sisu's new portlights (updated May 16, 2022)
Racing Certificates, Ratings, etc.
A Discussion of PHRF Ratings and Marionette's 2007 thru 2019 Rating Certificates (updated May 18, 2019)
PHRF (Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association) Regulations - 2008
PHRF (Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association) Regulations 2013
Classic Yacht Racing Certificate, Marionette, 2019
Repairs (various) - Individual projects plus a few boats that have had/are undergoing major restorations
Aeyla Makaira's Restoration, Yankee # 81 - 2009 Summer Report - Misc. Repairs
Battery Box (Corroded) a fix
Boom Gooseneck, Slide Car and Track Emergency Repair Kit
Cockpit Seat Drain Repair
Cockpit Coamings
- Remove, refinish, reinstall on ROWDY, Marscot/O'Day #5
Compass has a bubble?/ What to do....a new compass!
Galley Hand Pump (and a magical polish for brass, your compass dome, and your plastic portlights too!)
Galatea, a Shaw 24. Her Restoration Photo Album
General Repair Projects on Ioni, Yankee #90 (well worth the time to check these out)
https://bonkerfield.org/2019/05/ionis-solar-electrical-system/
https://bonkerfield.org/2018/06/introducing-ione/
https://bonkerfield.org/2019/09/woodworking-motor-work-and-head/
Hatches - Main, Fore and Transom, repair, replacement and related (updated January 8, 2014)
Hatch - Repair of Yankee # 125, Unda Maris II's, Main Hatch
Keel Repair - Marionette's encounter with a 'floating sea weed patch)
Leaks
Marionette's New Dress - complete exterior redo (updated February 19, 2018)
MELE, Marscot/O'Day #16 Restoration
Painting Topsides and Decks - a discussion regarding Interlux Brightsides
Prodigal's Restoration, Yankee #204
Repairing a Lunn built toe rail hull/deck joint - Halcyon
Repairing/replacing Yankee #79 (Remnant) toe rail and (wood) deck
Repairing/replacing Conch Pearl, Marsct/O'Day #16's Hull/Joint
Replacing ROWDY's, Marscot/O'Day #5, Toe Rails
Sheer clamp, hull/deck joint, toe rail repair/replacement, chainplate bedding, fixes; main bulkhead rot/replacement - a discussion (updated October 16, 2016)
Spreader Bracket Blocks (Marionette's)
Transom Deck repair/wood trim replacement - Pacific Dolphin #300
Windswept too, Yankee #245 - a discussion of her 'clamp', backing plates and deck hardware bedding
Windswept too, Yankee #245 - discussion of toe- rails
Tern, Yankee #155 - Hull/Deck Joint discussion - May 15, 2020
Rudders, Tillers, Autopilots and related
Aluminum Rudder Repair Jim Oppy's WISP, a Lunn built boat
Blue Gum's Self Steering System
Jasmine, nee Aquila, Pacific Dolphin #273 has a new Rudder (updated June 21, 2012)
Aspara, Yankee #153, Sailing herself, w/o an Auto Pilot - a video
Autopilot ST1000+ and Custom Tiller Bracket, (updated June 23, 2017)
Fixing a Broken Tiller
More on Replacing and Repairing Rudders
Repairing a Sloppy Rudder Shaft
Ruby's New Rudder
Rudder Design Change, April 31, 1966, photos of different Dolphin rudders, and an aluminum rudder story.
Rudder Heel Fitting, Rudder Shaft and Related
Repack Yankee Rudder Bearing- updated September 24, 2020
Rudder Post Casting
Summer Wine's 'Autopilot'
Tiller Lock Systems
Tiller Tamer - a kind of auto pilot
Sails and Performance related commentary (also see Design/Sail Plans, and Hardware, above)
Comments on Sails and Boat Speed
Crew work - important!!
Cutter Rig
Grand Finale's Main Sail
Jib furling Systems - updated June 9, 2017
Jib Leads and Genoa Track
Lazy Jacks
Marionette's Blade Sail
Kestrel gets a 120% furling jib
Making your own sails
Robin Lee's new Main Sail
Boethius, Yankee #149 - new main and jib
Spinnaker running rigging set up
The Dolphin Blooper
Spars - Masts, Mast Support Systems, Booms, Standing Rigging Running rigging and related (also check Hardware, Rigging and Layouts and Design Drawings, Sail Plans and Sails Sections for related subjects)
Boom Gooseneck, Slide Car and Track, and related
Booms - wood and aluminum - includes systems - vang, main sheet, outhaul, topping lift, etc
Jib Furling Systems
Mast Design - Reader Friendly Internet Articles
Mast Head Light, Custom Bracket, Pig Stick and Bridge Clearance Measurements
Mast Setting problem - hinge plate, etc,. Yankee #204
Mast Raising/Lowering Systems
- Mast Stepping - A Discussion and Resource
- Fred Goguen's System for Thankful (updated June 8, 2014 to include Windswept Too)
- Jim Robinson's System for Aquila
- Harold Shomaker's System (Sailing) Solace
- Scott Henry's System - Amaya
- Mast Raising Magic, by Rob Mazza, by permission from Good Old Boat Magazine (May/June, 2013)
- Kerry Lugo's Root Beer Float, Pacific Dolphin #294 and her mast raising/lowering system
- Jay Westbrook's One Chance, Yankee #208 Mast Raising Report
- Jerry Slaughter's ROWDY
- Paul Lugin's system for Windswept too, Yankee #245, and a saw horse support for your mast (updated May 31, 2019)
- Mark Wagner's system for Dol Fyn
- Jay Westbrook's system - One Chance, Yankee #208
- Justin Flagg's system - Yankee #207- a youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H17gvsfr9Vk&feature=youtu.be
- check out Eufrasio Volpe's system - Paper Moon, O'Day #41
Mast Pumping - A Discussion
Mast Struts and Arches - General info and pictures
Mast Support Wood Arch - Yankee Sketches, October, 1965
Mast Support Wood Arch - Load Calculation, Rod Stephens, Sept 16, 1965
Mast Tabernacles, Hinge Plates, Mast Plates, Chainplates, Halyard Organizers and Related (updated August 19, 2019)
Masts and Booms - Refinishing and Painting
New Masts - Wood, Carbon Fiber, Aluminum
Rig Weight - mast, halyards, masthead stuff, boom, main sheet, vang and reef lines.
Rigid SS Boom Vang (Aspara's)
Spinnaker Poles and related
Spreader Bracket Blocks
Standing Rigging Replacement
Tuning a Dolphin Mast (including adjustable backstay)
Supplier List - Suppliers of Services and Parts, Contractors/Restorers, Sources
A continuing work in progress
Trailers
Overview of Dolphin Trailers
Tongue weight calculation system (DIY)
Canopache's Trailer
Marionette's Trailer (updated July 13, 2017)
Pippin's New Triad Trailer
Prodigal's Loadmaster Trailer
Rowdy's Trailer
Ruby's (nee Clover's) Trailer
Tiki's Trailer
Windswept's Trailer
Bleeding Brake Lines on Windswept's Trailer
Dolphin, Yankee #193 - her last ride
Sisu's (Yankee #186) upgraded trailer project
Winterization and related
Checklists
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