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Hey all, We are working our way back towards the US after five seasons (and the last two years continuous) in the Bahamas and we're making our list of jobs to do during our mega-refit when we get back to the states. One of the items high up on the list is new sails. Do any of you 36 owners have loos...

Jeff, We mounted ours between the coach roof supports on the starboard side of the salon on the flat surface behind the top of the cushions. We chose this location so that we could put a mini form factor PC in the inboard starboard locker just forward of the navigation center and still hide the cabl...

David, We had the same problem on 36041, but our original trampoline was the all nylon webbing style. We restitched several times, but eventually we decided to bite the bullet and buy a new one. We got ours from Sunrise mentioned in the posting above and now 6 years later, it's almost as good as it ...

All, We started out using an Engenius 250mw adapter with a 30' custom made LR400 cable and a 9db outdoor omni directional antenna. Here in the Bahamas in Georgetown, I regularly pick up 9 or 10 networks of which 3 or 4 are wide open and free to use. Recently, I swapped my antenna for a 15db one that...

All, We put automatic bilge pumps in 36041 underneath the two forward floor boards. We went with Rule 500 gph pumps that have the float switch built in. For discharge, we put two 1" discharge thru hole fittings in the bridge deck right next to the one we installed for the port side air conditio...

All, Ok, so it took a little while to get everything sorted out, but we are now back in business. It turns out that the original, factory power and ground cables that run from the firewall terminals down inside the front of the engine cowl were to blame. More specifically, the first two feet of each...

Don,

What do you mean when you say power harness? By the way, are you on your way back to the Bahamas this year?

Tom

Guys, One of my two outboards is exhibiting a weird problem. When I hit the key to start, it turns 1/2 crank revolution and stops for like 2 seconds and then repeats. This goes on for anywhere to 10 to 20 minutes and then for some reason, the engine then starts turning over normally and fires right ...

Thanks a bunch Terry.

All, We are currently in Georgetown, Bahamas and the drive belt on our Autohelm 4000 wheel mounted pilot has broken. Does anyone know off hand what the part number is from West Marine as I cannot find it on their website or in the 2005 catalog I have on board. I ordered one from them several years a...

From PDQ model 36041 :


main : luff 35.0, foot 13.75, leech 36.97
genoa : luff 39.5, foot 20.13, leech 38.44 (140%)
jib : luff 34.3, foot 16.5 , leech 30 (115%)
asym : luff 40.7, foot 20.7, leech 37.5 (165%)


Hope this helps,
Tom

Phil, Don't feel bad, I lost one of the two reef lines almost three years ago and never got around to re-running it, mostly because I couldn't come up with an easy way to do it. We run just the one reef line as I have found that if the wind is high enough to require the second reef, I generally won'...

Carl, I do not know of anyone who has circumnavigated in a 36 or a 32, but I do know of at least 2 PDQ44's that are on their way around. I'm not sure why people don't take them around, but I would stack my PDQ 36 (36041) against our old Prout Snow Goose any day of the week. Everything about the 36 i...

Ok, I finally got around to posting the pictures of our arch construction. I also gave a full write up on how I built it and the materials required. Hope this helps.

http://www.tendervittles.net/arch.html

Regards,
Tom

Hey guys, We haven't been anywhere lately I can upload pictures, but rest assured they are coming. I even conned my wife into getting the under water camera out and taking some pictures from the bottom side of our arch for a different perspective. Stay tuned, when we get back to the land of high spe...