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12-14-2019, 12:40 PM
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Member
City: Seattle
Join Date: Dec 2019
Posts: 9
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Hello everyone I am Mike
Hello everyone I am new to the forum and recently purchased a 1973 Grand Banks 36. She needs a little TLC. Working on new window trim and eventually will need to have the teak decks worked on as well. Aside from that, some minor updates on the interior and she will be ready to cruise the Pacific Northwest.
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12-14-2019, 01:20 PM
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Guru
City: Solomons, MD
Vessel Name: Branwen
Vessel Model: Hatteras 48 LRC
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 645
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Welcome! Is that a wood hull or fiberglass?
Greg.
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12-14-2019, 02:25 PM
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Guru
City: Oconto, WI
Vessel Name: Best Alternative
Vessel Model: 36 Albin Aft Cabin
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 2,755
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Welcome Aboard!! What Greg said plus Single or Dual engine ? If you are new to the forum you can be excused for not including pictures. Once you get used to the forum send us a bunch of pictures and specifics on the boat and engines, like make model and hours.
pete
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12-14-2019, 03:33 PM
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Guru
City: Friday Harbor, WA USA
Vessel Name: FORTITUDE
Vessel Model: Kadey Krogen 54-8
Join Date: Jul 2017
Posts: 987
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Welcome! Great boat for around here. Post some pics when you can (you need to post/reply a few times before the site will allow you to upload photos).
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12-14-2019, 04:53 PM
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TF Site Team
City: Seneca Lake NY
Vessel Name: Bacchus
Vessel Model: MS 34 HT Trawler
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 7,103
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Welcome aboard TF.
Adding info re your boat and yourself will help others provide better info.
Congrats on the "new" vessel... you are in good company
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Don
2008 MS 34 HT Trawler
"Bacchus"
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12-14-2019, 05:36 PM
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Member
City: Seattle
Join Date: Dec 2019
Posts: 9
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My 1973 GB 36
She is a 1973 Grand Banks 36 classic. The very first year of fiberglass. And this particular model has the twin ford Lehman 120s. Hull number #36-391. She has had a lack of love the last few years and I am planning on bringing her back to life. The engines and mechanical are in great shape! The windows and teak decks need work and of course she is need of lots of varnish!!! So lots of work and probably some questions to come!
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12-14-2019, 07:43 PM
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Guru
City: Galveston, Texas
Vessel Model: 24" El Pescador
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 712
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Congratulations--looks like you have a good start--the machinery is important.
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Ken Diestler
Galveston, Tx
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12-14-2019, 08:30 PM
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Guru
City: Miami Florida
Vessel Name: Possum
Vessel Model: Ellis 28
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 5,162
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Welcome aboard! My wife and I chartered a 36 GB Classic in the Florida Keys many years ago. It was a very comfortable boat. You’ll enjoy yours.
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Parks Masterson
Retired from Hopkins-Carter Marine Supply
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12-14-2019, 09:14 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Au Gres, MI
Vessel Name: Black Dog
Vessel Model: Formula 41PC
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 18,598
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Welcome aboard. Congrats on your new boat. Enjoy!
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Boat Nut:
If you are one there is no explanation necessary.
If you aren’t one, there is no explanation possible.
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12-16-2019, 08:30 PM
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Guru
City: Nanaimo
Vessel Name: former owner of "Pilitak"
Vessel Model: Nordic Tug 37
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 1,644
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Welcome aboard! Congrats on the new boat. Grand Banks are great boats, and I love the look of all that teak! However, for me, too much work required to keep it as it should be, but some really love that part of boating!! Enjoy all of your experiences, and maybe we will see you on the water. By the way, what is your boat's name?
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Tom
Nanaimo, BC
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12-16-2019, 09:24 PM
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Senior Member
City: Tri-Cities WA
Vessel Name: Long Shot
Vessel Model: 1978 Californian 42' LRC
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 191
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Welcome Mike, congrats! We looked at one like yours, they are beautiful boats.
Enjoy the TLC. Tom is right "some really love that part of boating" aka "have a screw loose" and I'm one of them!
My Wife and I have 6-8 years of work left before we can head your way to explore - really looking forward to that.
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Eric
Please throw me the bowline Fraulein!
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12-17-2019, 04:43 PM
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Guru
City: Nanaimo
Vessel Name: former owner of "Pilitak"
Vessel Model: Nordic Tug 37
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 1,644
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Aft Deck,
My former boss at work (I've been retired for a while now), bought a boat a few years before he retired with plans for extensive travel. For the first 5+ years of ownership, the boat was on the hard while he did a total refit. The only thing that he did not rebuild almost entirely was the engine! All exterior teak including both masts and all spars (it was a ferocement schooner) received a total strip down and 12 coats of varnish. Having built a boat before, he had a lot of knowledge before hand. He loved it!!!
However, not for me, I want to use my boat not spend too much time "refitting it".
I do, however, believe "whatever floats your boat!"  Everyone is different.
Enjoy whatever it is that you enjoy!
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Tom
Nanaimo, BC
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12-17-2019, 05:19 PM
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,029
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Greetings,
Welcome aboard.
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RTF
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12-17-2019, 06:50 PM
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Senior Member
City: Snohomish
Vessel Name: Toki
Vessel Model: Ranger 27
Join Date: Nov 2019
Posts: 123
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Welcome aboard Mike. I love those old Grand Banks', definitely a boat worthy of some elbow grease. And I'm going to assume it was built when builders weren't sure how strong this newfangled fiberglass stuff was, so the hull is probably built like a tank!
Where will you be keeping her? I've got my tug in Anacortes and sailboat on Lake Union.
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12-26-2019, 11:08 AM
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Senior Member
City: Hamilton
Vessel Name: Moon Dragon
Vessel Model: 1989 IG32
Join Date: Oct 2019
Posts: 118
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Welcome Mike - enjoy your boat.
We got ours in October this year, a 1989 Island Gypsy 32, just in time to have it pulled for the winter. According to the history of the K&H IGs, we may have our designer in common.
Ours was on the hard for about a year as the PO had two boats so know a little bit about the TLC required.
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12-27-2019, 08:58 AM
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Guru
City: LI or Fla
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,148
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Congratulations and the best of luck, might also want to check closely at the fuel tanks (areas not easily seen). Hate to see you do all this work and then need to replace tanks.
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12-27-2019, 09:37 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Puget Sound
Vessel Name: Muirgen
Vessel Model: 50' Beebe Passagemaker
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 2,600
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Welcome aboard! We had a 1972 GB 36, the last year of the woodies. Great boat. Cruised in the Hawaiian Islands with her. Now looking for another boat to cruise the Gulf Coast, and Bahamas! Enjoy.
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12-30-2019, 01:55 PM
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Guru
City: Seattle
Vessel Name: Kaos
Vessel Model: Symbol 55 Pilothouse
Join Date: Sep 2018
Posts: 524
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Congrats! Love GBs and yours looks like it will be a wonderful family member!
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12-30-2019, 05:05 PM
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Guru
City: Southport, FL near Panama City
Vessel Name: FROLIC
Vessel Model: Mainship 30 Pilot II since 2015. GB-42 1986-2015. Former Unlimited Tonnage Master
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 4,637
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Welcome. I had a wooden GB42 1972 model. Sold in 2015, The gent who bought it has continued to upgrade it just as I did. He decided to tackle the teak deck issue which he decided was one - I did not. He and I discussed how to cover them, and my main point to him was that the decking should not be removed because of how the boat was built. Yours will be different because you have a glass boat, but his method seemed sound to me, and I could put you in touch with him should you ever go that route.
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Rich Gano
FROLIC (2005 MainShip 30 Pilot II)
Panama City area
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12-30-2019, 06:09 PM
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Guru
City: Sydney
Vessel Name: Sojourn
Vessel Model: Integrity 386
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 12,807
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Leo Reise
Welcome Mike - enjoy your boat.
We got ours in October this year, a 1989 Island Gypsy 32, just in time to have it pulled for the winter. According to the history of the K&H IGs, we may have our designer in common.
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GBs were designed by Ken Smith, IGs were designed by Harvey Halvorsen. IG copied features of the GB but if you look at the hull, esp fwd, they are quite different.
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BruceK
2005 Integrity 386 "Sojourn"
Sydney Australia
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