Howdy, My wife and I just picked up Willard Vega #78 "Clementine". Lot's of problems to discuss with you all, but the current mystery is how to get at the electrical & steering controls. I can't find

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Nice! Thanks for the advice. I really love having experts to call upon.

(maybe I better rephrase that subject line) We pulled the engine on "Clementine" last week (Vega Voyager). Now I need to pull the shaft, but have two problems: 1) I can't get the rudder off. The beari

I recently purchased some good quality silicon square-section gasket material from Gardico. It's hollow in the middle so it compresses nicely. The hollow is just a small "tube" down the middle so ther

Any talk of a rendezvous this year? I finally have Moonlight (ex Clementine) in the water and would love to meet all the other boats (and their owners, of course).

I painted my window liners last summer with Krylon spray paint. Turned out pretty well, I'd say. I've posted some photos in a "Moonlight" album I just added to the group Photos section. I included one

Drilling a hole in the rudder is quite a minor activity - significantly easier than pulling the rudder. If the hole offends your sense of "fair hull" it's simple to fill it with something that can be

Yah, in that case definitely not a minor activity. Well, drilling the hole might not be too bad - living with the consequences would be! I do love those big flat bronze rudders on the Vega's. I tried

Has anyone tried moving the galley down into the salon on a Voyager 30? It seems like the narrow cabinet on the starboard side is underutilized, so I was wondering about installing the galley there. P

Make sure the yard knows you're going to pull the shaft. I didn't and they backed me right up against a shed wall. Fortunately the shed owner was understanding and let me drill a hole in the wall to p

I took the fake smoke stack off my Voyager to fix a persistent leak. Now I’ve decided not to put it back. Does anyone want it? It’s got a teak bracket to lower the mast in to, and opens up for storage

I’ve posted a pic of the fuel transfer/polisher set up I’ve installed on Moonlight (W30). It has five parts: 1. Reverso 2-port intake manifold (upper right) 2. Racor separator (middle) 3. Reverso fuel

My W30 Voyager has a wooden strip on the back of edge of the door that’s about ¾” ticker than the door, with the extra width extending inboard (toward the cabin side). The aft edge of the door frame h

I need to replace the Big T steering steering system on Moonlight. The current rotary drive unit moves the rudder to starboard just fine, but won’t engage to port. It’s only half broken, but the missi

Here’s what it looks like on my 30’ Voyager, looking up at the port aft salon corner. The ‘glass of the cabin sides turns inboard about 3” inches all the way around. The formed plywood of the salon ro

Thumbs up on going with a full length bench. My Voyager has a small lift up plywood seat. I find that on a hot summer day, if the sun is coming through the window, I want to sit further inboard to get

Is anyone concerned that toilet paper and paper towels are pretty much designed to disentigrate quickly? Don’t know if it’d be much of a problem for lube oil, but I’d be really worried about microfibr

Looks like it’s going to be a Voyager fest: four 30’s and 40’! Really looking forward to it. Thanks, Rick, for pulling this together. -Sean

My cable steering system crapped out a couple of years ago. I opted to replace the cable and install a new Intelisteer/Octopus drive system. I don’t think it cost me much more than $1K and I was able