I will try to get a look at my tanks but it may have to be tomorrow. I =
am working right now and have the (timber framing) crew waiting for =
direction. I am with Cindy in that they are NOT the same size and/or =
shape so you could be in for some design challenges. How 'bout a =
mock-up of plywood (I am a woodworker) or posterboard or something?

Ken
Moonshadow II
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Debra Axness
  To: baba-l@ballreich.net
  Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:10 PM
  Subject: Re: [Baba-L] Baba-30 water tanks


  I did know that Bill Parlatore was one of the previous owners - I =
actually purchased her from someone else whose name I have now =
forgotten. I am still looking for the answer to the simple question =
about the position of the outflow on the original SS tanks on Baba-30s: =
does it point lengthwise on the boat, or towards the bilge? I also was =
asking if the tanks, port and starboard, are identical. I haven't done =
any mockups, but visualizing them seems to be, if you rotate the =
starboard tank 180 degrees you will be able to place it in the port =
position. Is this true? Any info Baba-30 owners can give would be =
appreciated.

  Also, anything all of you tinkerers can think of that we haven't - we =
are having custom polyethylene tanks made (in the same shape as the =
original tanks were). I think we need to strap them in somehow, cushion =
them, and other details. Any ideas?

  Thanks!


  On 11/29/05, Alan Sugarman <sugarman@sugarlaw.com> wrote:
    At 09:36 AM 11/29/2005, Debra Axness wrote:

>The PO replaced them with flexible Nauta bladder tanks, I think
>because he used to race her (!).

    The PO was Bill Parlatore who subsequently founded PassageMaker
    magazine, the trawler magazine. The Baba 30, then named Bivacco, =
was
    never raced - Bill planned to sail it in the Annapolis-Bermuda race =
-
    instead, he "crewed" for me on the race, which meant that anything
    not working worked by the time we got to Bermuda.

    Bivacco was next to mine on F dock in Port Annapois. Bill was and =
is
    a great innovator and tinkerer (see the saga of his custom trawlers
    Growler and Growler 2 covered over the years in PassageMaker). He
    removed the pedestal steering and replaced the steering with a =
tiller
    (the tiller came from a Catalina 27). That left room under the
    cockpit. So, he decided he could use the storage under the cabin
    berths, so moved the water tanks to bladders under the cockpit. =
This
    also helped balance out the weight in the bow where he had custom
    anchor rollers built. Bill also moved the batteries under the =
sink,
    so as to make room in the port cockpit locker.

    One of Bill's dreams was to take Bivacco to cruise the canals of
    Europe. So, he had a special bracket built to hold the mast. Since
    then, of course, Bill has cruised everywhere (but not in the Baba) -
    which you will know if you read his magazine. Bill is now on the =
ABYC.

    Contact him at "Bill Parlatore" <BillP@passagemaker.com>.

    Alan



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