Today is THE day!

[ohiohatteras]

Well....It's been a loooong wait, but I'm splashing my freshly Awlgripped 36C in Lake Erie today and taking her to the marina!
We decided that since the ole girl turns 30 this year, she deserved a make over! I'll take some pics and post them after the weekend! I sure hope everything they took off to paint her, works again!
Ahhhhhhhhh....back to boating......finally!

 

[Trojan]

ConGrats. Where in Ohio are you splashing?



BILL

 

[jim rosenthal]

CAn't wait to see photos....I am always interested to see what someone else's 36C looks like, sometimes I see ideas I hadn't thought of for mine...good luck and please post photos.

 

[ohiohatteras]

Here's the only pic I had a chance to take...it was right before we loaded it to take it to the hoist. The 1/2 tower isn't on yet either...cuz it's too high to go down the street! I'll post a few more later...

 

[Passages]

Wow

She GLOWS! Great job.

 

[67hat34c]

shure looks nice, cant wait to get mine back from paint, getting delayed as the painter took vacation and went to Peru, was to be 2 weeks but now turned into 3. At least his helper has been working on it over the last 3 weeks. we are now delayed to about mid july.

 

[Genesis]

Dayem. Beautiful!

 

[farauscher]

We need more pictures!!!

Beautiful job. I bet she'll look great on the water.

 

[jim rosenthal]

I really like the extra cleat on the side, I wish I had that. Are the bridge ladder and the related rails original or did you do that, they look great. These are beautiful boats, they have great lines and are really graceful in the water. Is yours diesel or gasoline?

If you get a chance to post anything else in the way of pictures, they'd be welcome.

 

[Genesis]

They weren't ALL built with the two spring cleats? I know Gig had 'em, and I'm pretty sure most (if not all) of the other Hatts in the midsize (30ish+) range did too.... I wonder if that was an option that was simply bought by most.....

 

[Avenger]

My 36 doesn't have it either. But then again, mine's only got one portlight in the side also. Between that and the engine vents I'd say somebody's been doing some modifications. Great looking boat BTW!

 

[34Hatt]

Looks Great Lot's of Luck with it. And more pictures would be great!
The extra spring cleat I think I need to put that on the list, that can be handy!

 

[jim rosenthal]

Nope. Mine has a single spring cleat where the pictured boat has it, forward. it is actually too far forward, really, and it positioned where the side deck is about as narrow as it gets, making it somewhat difficult to kneel down and use. And the cleat itself is too small. I had the original bronze cleats replated a few years ago. They are not easy to get off, either, as the backing hardware is very difficult to access from inside the boat. The second set of cleats is a great idea, I am embarrassed that I didn't think of it at the time. It would not have been difficult then.

The 36C Series I does not have foredeck cleats, either, just a mooring bitt. I added some large SS cleats with SS backing plates, ahead of the mooring bitt. Interestingly, although the bitt was through-bolted from new, the bolts were bronze. I had had the boat for more than a year before I discovered that the mooring bitt was held on by ONE BOLT and a little caulking that had been used to seal the bottom edge. All the other bolts had corroded away. In other words, when I anchored, which I had done a few times, the entire ground tackle was secured to the deck by one 3/8" bronze bolt.

It was tempting to see how long I could get away with it, but I chickened out and replaced everything with SS bolts. I didn't have the nerve to leave it as is.

 

[jim rosenthal]

Regarding the portlight, I don't have the second one either. 'Yachtzee' may be a galley-up boat, where there is a second stateroom that has a portlight, or maybe a portlight was offered in the galley. There is a surprising amount of variation in different 36 convertibles. They were made for nine years, which is a fairly long model run for a Hatteras convertible, and over two hundred were built. Some of the changes as the model continued are valuable as criticisms of the original specs...for example, the tankage was increased from 250 to 300, I think in 1972, and the metal exhaust pipes that the first boats had were replaced by glassed-in FRP tubes which are faired into the lower transom, a very nice touch which needs less maintenance than the metal exhausts. I have seen a lot of variations in the layouts of the interior spaces, and especially in the way the rear bulkhead is set up with the window (not always there), the door (left, right and center, if memory serves me) and the bridge ladder (left, right and center as well) Some boats have three helms, which must have made the cable controls really difficult to use. Some have one only, although I don't know if they were that way from new or the inside helm was removed later on. All seem to have the same bridge- there may have only been one mold. The position of the generator set varies quite a lot, and so does the position of the AC compressor units which can be anywhere in the engine room. The one constant in all the 36s I have seen is the refrigerator. Every one I have ever looked at (and that is not all 200 by any means) is a GE, and always in the same place to the right of the companionway steps.

Next post, of course, will be a photo of a 36C with the fridge elsewhere, which will serve me right.

 

[Gina Marie]

Great boat it looks fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Show us more pictures inside and out. Congradulations you should be proud. Gina Marie

 

[Avenger]

Jim,
Interesting observations. I've tried to keep an eye on the 36's on yachtworld to see what's original, and to get ideas for improvements, but you seem to have quite a bit more background on them. I'm sure mine has been altered quite a bit from original, so I can't be sure what is and isn't. Mine has the glassed exhausts, but it was probably done in the re-power. It also has the mooring bit, and I've been debating where to put cleats and the possibilty of installing a windlass. Thanks for the info on the bolts, I'll be checking mine immediately.

I don't know if it's still on yachtworld, but Slane Marine converted one to an express and changed the v-berth to sort of a v-bunk/couch. Really nice, but it eliminated the portlights. I've also seen a lot of them where the galley has been "daylighted" by installing a short fridge and cutting down the bulkhead. If you have front windows it really brightens up the galley and adds some much needed counter space. Since my widows are glassed over, mine was "daylighted" by installing a hatch. There are a lot of possibilities and a lot of good ideas out there. Thanks, as always, to everybody for sharing.