If you can’t repair it, maybe it shouldn’t be on board.
– Lin and Larry Pardey
Author Archives: Schooner Mahdee
Mahdee was in the Transpacific Yacht Race in 1967
Hard to believe it, but we’ve learned that Mahdee, a heavy cruising boat, actually sailed in two TransPac races: We heard from various folks that she’d sailed in a TransPac in the 1960’s and then later in an Ancient Mariners Sailing Society TransPac around 1980.
I corresponded with Rich Roberts, Press Officer for Transpac 2007, about the 100 year race history and if Mahdee (under her various names through the years) had ever raced the Transpac. Indeed she did. Rich writes:
“a 53-foot schooner named Privateer owned by David W. Allen of SFYC (and 5 other people named Allen) did sail in 1967 (2nd out of 24 in Class B, 69 boats overall)”
Looking at the .pdf of the race results, we believe Rich meant to say “second from the last in Class B” since her times place her there, not as second in Class B. The classes relate to size so cruising boats as well as racing boats would be together in the class but they would have very different handicaps.
We know that there were light winds in that year’s race and that Mahdee requires heavy winds to do her best. Therefore, we’re amazed she wasn’t at the bottom of the list of all entries!
Read what the Transpac history documents say about the race in 1967… More Here
Click on the Transpac Burgee to see information about the Transpacific Race 2007 and the race history:
Die buying logistics
Thread something, break something…this seems to remain the pattern (even though David denies it…wink!)
On the keel bolts, tailfeather, and floor bolts, we’ve still got stuff to thread (5/8″ x 11 threads to make and 3/4″ x 10 threads as well) For this Mahdee project, the boatyard bought a die stock and round dies for these and other sizes. But, a couple days ago, while threading a 1″ keel bolt, David broke the die stock for the round dies. So, we’ve got our hex die stock (without the proper size dies) and the round dies without a proper size die stock…
None of the local stores seem to have what we need: 2″ round die stock OR the appropriate dies for a 1 13/16″ hex die stock. They can sell us hex dies but it seems that the hex dies require a smaller hex stock…which we could buy but it looks “dinky” and we’d surely break it.
So, off to order stuff online from MSC Direct: one 2″ dia die stock to replace the one we broke (only $9.45) and then, assuming that it will break again, a sliding T handle ($22.05, that we can use with our 1/2″ drive deep sockets for this project and then for other car-related projects) so we can use a socket with the hex dies that we can purchase locally. Hopefully, we won’t break the new 2″ dia die stock so the T handle won’t be needed and we’ll just use the round dies already purchased for the project by the yard.
