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so. mazatlan. awesome place to do work. not.. is not bad if you have a motivated mexiworker, but if he …
25 Tuesday Sep 2018
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so. mazatlan. awesome place to do work. not.. is not bad if you have a motivated mexiworker, but if he …
07 Tuesday Aug 2018
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inyeah i know we all doit.
i am and so is slow work lack of progress… but we all know that just before 5 things are completed, there pervades a feeling of aintgettinthere….
searching fo r a halper is not working. so scratch that idea…
repairing mast may work for a few years… after then i may need a house with dock. they donot truly exist here unless one is friendly with an owner of a condo and has no boat….these donot exist at all in mazatlan, unless one owns not a sailboat but a small speedboat for fishing. they are all way too pricey anyway….
and so we fix boat looking forward to leaving mazatlan.. prolly in another short 2 or 3 years..damn long time.
the cats are happy. they get dorado every week….. and cat food with that extra lovely protein….boys are spoiled.
soon. hahahahahahaha…and so we repair and repair and …..
22 Sunday Jul 2018
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intake apart take apart see worker only once monthly on a weds.. not cutting it. request parts never seen. am getting feeling this is a not gonna be done effort. not happifying.
engine pending controls were quested over a year ago. gggrrrr.. still unseen still not ordered.
mast stepped for repairs and r or replacement. step torn apart, is unrepaired and continues to remain unsafe for sea… the fix also contains the repairs for the beam securing packing gland. oopsy. need to effect repairs asap. still waiting , been here 2 years already. yes i know…mexico. BUTTTTT… even in mexico boats are fixed sooner than this one ever will be, \i truly donot wish to spend my last days in mazatlan. dang. i prefer the smaller towns and fishing villages closer to manzanillo.
ok stop whining shutup and do the work, yes?? hahahahaha
so i am conversing with another local worker who repairs boats. we see what happens as a result. yet another mexifriend spawned my searching by stating my worker comes here once every month on a weds. ok we need to get a better record of repair …. hell we need to get A record of repair…
the waiting is such a flustrating experience as nothing continues to be done……
hopefully soon that will be overcome. crossing fingers and calling out workers….
28 Thursday Jun 2018
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ini donot usually ask anyone for aid, but this man has experienced grave losses in the past year, beginning with irmacane and subsequent sequellae have created an uninhabitable situation.he has been living in ghetto in ft myers wherin his best friend, a furry feline, was brutally killed in front of him. he has need of specific medications to treat some psych/neurological issues, and is attempting to make it on less than 1000 usd monthly, his ssdi allotment.
please find it in your heart to help with just a small donation to his cause. he just needs a leg up to recover from the damages incurred in the hurricanes that took him over the edge of ability to are for self.
if 50 more folks give 10 usd each his goal will be met. is not much, and is sooo needed.
this man never has asked for assistance, i pushed this on him. please lend him a hand for redirecting his life. itis difficult to see clearly when there are issues preventing clear thought. thankyou for your generosity and consideration.
08 Tuesday May 2018
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inwe getting into the real nitty gritty of this repair project… removed the mast step and supporting bag of feathers, will be replacing feathers with real wood which hopefully should last at least another 10 years. this is 42 yr old stuff.
we have stripped the hardware off the original mizzenmast, and stored for next one.
yes you read me right., next one. not sure at this point whether it will be a gorgeous one from another 41 formosa or a repair on this or an aluminum tree cutting a friend has been growing in his roof for a bit of time. once the marina manager had us relocate the mast we were working to the field, that was end of that one. cannot access for work, we will sell to highest bidder.
20 Friday Apr 2018
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infound this a while back and forgot to keep safe in formosa groups..this was caught from a cruising and sailing forum, posted by one jack tarr, who used to own a 51 formosa.
Hardin information
History
Hardin International Co., Ltd. History 07/01/2001
I am somewhat familiar with the Hardin 45’s, having been an importer for the boats from 1977 until the factory was closed in the mid 1980’s. My wife and I owned a Hardin 45 for about 1 1/2 years in 1980/81 and another for 10 years from 1990 to 2000.
Be cautioned not to believe some of the rumors that fly around about the Taiwan boats and roving Chinese families that built parts of different boats as they wandered from yard to yard. Most of the rumors are circulated by people who have never been to Taiwan or built a boat anywhere. I have had boats built in six different yards in Taiwan and China over the past 29 years and have visited dozens more yards in Taiwan and China. I have never seen that phenomenon. Every yard that I have worked in has had its own full time employees ranging from 75 to 200 workers depending on the size of the yard and the volume demand at the time. Work forces did go up and down with business, much like they do here in the USA in any industry.
I personally knew Bill Hardin and my wife and I had dinner with him at the Hong Kong Yacht Club in 1981, and then visited Hardin 45, Hull #100 which he kept for himself at the club in Hong Kong harbor. He was born in 1926 and studied naval architecture and engineering at Long Beach City College under Prof. Aldenberg (rated in the top 3 in the US at the time). Bill Hardin worked with fiberglass as early as 1948 and in fiberglass boat building in Japan in 1959. He died in the Vancouver, BC area in the 1990’s.
Bill Hardin, Bill Crealock, Ernie Chamberlain and William Garden were the pioneers of Taiwan boat building for the American market. They were the ones who really got the industry rolling in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. Bill Hardin started the CT (Ta Chaio) yard with two Chinese partners in the Taipei area (northern Taiwan) with the original Wm. Garden designed Sea Wolf 40, the Sea Sprite, and the original Garden designed Force 50. He left CT soon after, taking his Sea Wolf molds with him. But his Sea Wolf 40 was copied by many yards and sold as CT41, Island Trader 41, Yankee Clipper 41, Sea Tiger 41, Transworld 41, etc., a very popular traditional ketch. The Force 50 molds were taken to Hudson Boat Company in the Taipei area, but the Force 50 was also copied as an Island Trader 51, Formosa 51, etc. This copying problem is why it was nearly impossible to get a set of drawings from a Taiwan builder.
Bill Hardin moved to Kaohsiung, Taiwan (southern end) and built a new factory where labor and overhead costs were lower – around 1970. The company was called Hardin International Co. Ltd. That is where he designed and built the Hardin 45. They built an all fiberglass construction and they were the only builder of the Hardin 45. The boats were imported at first as a Bounty 44. Around 1980, Hardin re-designed the hull from a 6’0″ draft to 5’6″ draft, trimmed down the transom and moved the two aft ports from the hull to the aft cabin trunk, and also extended the boat to 45’2″. Most people do not even notice these changes. To avoid confusion, the Bounty 44’s and Hardin 45’s are all referred to by brokers as Hardin 45’s.
As receved in an E mail from another enthusiast.
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06 Friday Apr 2018
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inseems a marina tenant has had a truck stolen
so she whined to folks about how she is needy and yadayadayada… so even before i heard of her loss i tried to make a visit with contract for 1000s of dollars us for work not just for me but for others. total income for her would have been 10,000 usd.
ok.
so when i tried to meet and speak with her she was nasty rude and not civil.
ok.
so today i see her again, and she is even ruder.
ok.
so she said when addressed and proposal broached that she doesnot need the dough nor the work.
good.
i had seen her results and not been enraptured with the quality. oops.
and so
as long as someone is opportuning a victimization, they need no clientelle.
woman said it from her own face.
“i donot need the money nor the work” quote “banjo jane”
good
and so i gave 10,000 usd of work to local mexicans who welcomed it with open arms and huge hearty thankyous.
\gotta love local folks with good work ethic.
i so donot sympathize with those holding victim mentality and shoddy work ethics and product.
as a 6 month visa holder she has no right to do any kind of work here.
oopsy.
sooooo glad i didnot become accessory to enabling an illegal activity.
17 Saturday Mar 2018
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alllllright….sooo, as the great almighty and above it all used car errrr boat sales creep in mazatlan is a BULLY. ok. so i boycott bullies. since his wife died, he has become more and more angry and hate filled, spewing noise and anger at those who silently do their living. what a joik.
and so today was a swap meet… there were three selling and few passing thru. i got a seat for helm station, and i found a parts kit for whale gusher foot pumps. score. poifect.
for a week, there was nointertweb connectivity. i ran diagnostics and reconfigured th ehell outta my computer only to learn it is a compound error between over reconfiguring and system fail, which is denied. it is your equipment is the pat answer. hahahahaha guess again. we still have S L O W connectivity, despite 4 lights on my tplink pharos antenna. and that is when the bully disrupted my reprogramming.
hahahahaha
good thing i didnt reprogram antenna as i was gonna do –it did itself. is a magical item and most helpful in grabbing connectivity and failing signals.. gunsmoke with coffee is not the same as weather with coffee. i prefer weather.
and so i resubmit my logins. only fail one is sailnet. their security is tighter than that of the queens skivvies i swear.
got new to me mast of wood from a once tour boat named romance II which broke up on the main beach here when engine glitch occurred in a strong onshore breeze. they didnt stand a chance of recovery. is a shame. however the masts and engines are saved and usable, so the spirit continues….
and then there is chico da vato. bubbas nemesis now hisses at bubba,l and bubba swat chico. is this a pawsitive move or ..
and chicos ears… now he is getting some strange skin colorations he didnot used to have. his ears used to be pale skin, now turning brown in splotches….. wierdo cattie. he is also getting white furzz on his body. didnot used to have that. wierdo cat. the pale strips onhis head in front of his ears are also blotching brown.. as i said….. meximultigene kitty
19 Monday Feb 2018
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inso we finally have removed mizzen for repairing or replacement. there is a wood mast rebuilder here, so we will try that. i love my thai cedar masts.. this rebuilder has thai cedar, hard to find in mexico.
as for the condition of my post patricia cane mizzen–wholly ships, mon. the wood is as durable and solid and hard as feathers. oopsy.
yup i know when to remove a dangerous item from boat….
so it now lies on my dock finger next to my shiplet, which popped up out of water 6 inches astern.. was a strange sensation to feel as it literally did pop out. mast is 40 ft length.
we continue the electrical panel work… and fixing that quadrant of boat under old ice box, now black moldville…..
07 Wednesday Feb 2018
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inand so, yes we had a raton on our coachhouse roof. thankfully he showed his lil self before trying to gain entry into interior of boat. he was a cute lil disease addled thing with a scaly tail. pretty coloring, and nosey. he tried 2 times to enter– both times caught in the act. he first appeared when the field next to my boat was mowed and raked. no more homes, seeking new ones, found a plantain on my binnacle and the war began.
ok. each of th e 3-4 days he stayed on the roof i washed well the roof and decks. changed the screens and made sure all is well and intact. checked the hawse cap for tightness and weight. washed the decks again.
my mechanic brought some sticky traps and i loaded 2 while wearing gloves and caught the not so cute anymore critter last night and dispo’d it.
now cats are weird.. they each have a different reaction and response to this situation.. chico gets excited and runs like he was shot, and bubba lies down on top of the location of the intruder. so between the 2, we deaded one rodent. still donot trust the lil guys, am keeping traps ready and watching closely and putting frisbies on my lines until i can get rat preventer cones.
and yeah i thought shorty was a good name for a cause of pestilence notorious world wide.
oh but they sooo cute…
~~~NOT!~~~~
oh yeah. carnaval begins tomorrow….. week after carnaval we de-mast this boat.