York River Yacht Haven MLW 8', Mobjack Bay Marina MLW 6', Bay Creek Marina MLW 8'. If 8' is not enough just across the river from YRYH Yorktown Docks has MLW...
Additional marina info: Mobjack Bay Marina Slips for boats 25' to 36' $25.00/night including 30 amp hook up. The marina does not take credit cards, but they...
Alex, I think you have room. I put a Perkins M20 in my W27, had plenty of room and love the power increase. Jim ... From: alex To: watkins@yahoogroups.com ...
Hey Jim, just made my reservations for York River Yacht Haven for the 27th-28th/29th of May for the Raft-up. On a different note, as you know I am home for two...
Lapointe Paul
Lapoints@...
Feb 1, 2006 4:43 pm
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Can anyone provide some insight to the portlights? My 23 has a smoked plexiglass / acrylic covering over the cutout in the hull. Anybody know if this is...
No Paul I did not you were home for 2 weeks. I like the way your doctor thinks, but I hope its not to serious. Man steeling a 13 year old car, who would think?...
My 82 Watkins 27 has a 2GM. It is raw water cooled. There is tons of room for the freshwater radiator. I don't see a problem. John Peterson s/v Dream Date ... ...
I'm not sure what information you are looking for in regards to portlights. I'll try to make time to look at mine when I get home. I uploaded some pictures of...
I replaced mine and passed info on to the group. The smoke ports are Bomar Gray Series and made by Pompanette. For complete info see my "how to" (which was...
Hello all! The W23 I have was pretty much gutted by the previous owner. I am searching for pictures of the oringinal interior design so maybe i can begin to...
I have some pics of the interior of my former, and Pauls former W23 "Jolly Roger." I did notice that there are some nice pics already in a W23 folder in the...
A comment and a question: I had a 1979 W27 with the YSM -8G (I think that was the designation). It was the lower powered single cylinder. It was OK, but I...
Robert Edwards
edwardsr@...
Feb 2, 2006 3:02 am
12605
I have a 3 bladed prop. No idea on the size or pitch. I'm getting ready to haul it out for the first time since I've owned it. I can easily cruise at around 6...
To all, With regard to Mobjack Bay part of the trip, I'll offer up to the group use of our pier for anyone that might be interested. We have a little place on...
Head room was no problem with the Perkins M20. The beds had to be modified (that is a long trial and error process). As for the prop, go to a good prop shop...
I uploaded some pictures yesterday to the group site. They are in a folder called "W23_Various" I tried to add a few this morning - "Yahoo" wants me to wait...
I think going to Roy's place on the East River would be a lot of fun. He has a long dock for all of us to tie up to and we could have dock party. One option...
Roy, thanks for the invite. I'm sure when we move from the York River to the Mobjack you will have guest. Hope to see you at York River Yacht Haven on May 27. ...
Folks, The ship and crew are doing well and moving on: Day 65, 1/31/06 As of today Walkabout is 5 days overdue to check in from Chubb Cay and 2 days overdue if...
A while ago I wrote about how much Deb and I still love our Origo unpressurized alcohol stove after 19 years of use. I also mentioned that we had ordered a...
On Blown away we have the original (rebuilt by Kenyon) pressure alcohol stove , on our (1991) 49 day cruise to the Bahamas we missed baking, I MISSED PIZZA! ...
Alex, I did this last spring to my Watkins 27 - 1981 model. There is certainly room, vertical, port-to-starboard, fore and aft. I also wanted to use a...
... Roy, let me join Jim in thanking you for your gracious offer. The annual Raft-Up is usually a week long plan. For this plan to be suitable the plan for...
I think I could tear myself away from the Chesapeake to attend a raft-up in Marathon or Key West, particularly in January/February! Fortunately, this winter...
Is your boat already doing hull-speed.? ie is it a fact that the last few revs as it were from 3300 to 3600 do not really increase speed but just make more ...
capbrian
capbrian@...
Feb 3, 2006 10:24 pm
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I think we've been down this road before a couple of years worth of posts ago. You engineers out there correct me if I got it wrong but from those past posts...
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