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Ken Keenahan's Horne 33

This was taken shortly after the hull was painted. I was
roommates with a couple of guys who started a body shop
in town. I paid one guy $400 for the painting plus $400 for
the paint. I used DuPont Imron at the time. I had the exact
same problem that you mention, about a million tiny pin
holes in the hull that were impossible to fill. I used a filler
primer that wouldn’t quite make it into the holes.

I painted the deck with a non skid; I think I just used
sand on the surface because it’s how we painted
the non skid surfaces in our production areas at
Kodak.

A few grab rails made it start to look like a boat.

Here I am
working on the
rudder. It took
me forever to
get it right. It
was too big and
needed to be cut
down some I
remember, and
was just hard to
work with for
one person. My
steering gear
was the Hale
Pauley used
truck gearbox
design with
chain drive and
a tie rod end
welded to the
end of the
rudder shaft
bracket which in
your case was a
really nicely
designed gear
drive set up.
Again, I was
never really
happy with

this whole set up, not knowing how reliable the gearbox would be or
how much load it could handle. I did have plans for a back up tiller
though, but never got to that.

The cockpit was fairly basic you can see.

These next few shots are taken just before the hauler brought the boat to the Genesee river where it was launched. It really
needed larger portholes, or maybe rectangular ports, similar to yours. These just didn’t look quite right.

Just as it’s being loaded. It took the guy about 10 minutes to get it loaded.

I should do a search on the New York state reg number and see if it turns up anything.

Just after it was unloaded down by the river. Note the size of the rudder!

You can kind of see in this picture how the last bulkhead
slopes back away from plumb when referenced to the
waterline.

I think this was taken with only 5500 pounds of lead in the
keel. I melted the lead into 15-20 pound blocks and then
stacked them in the keel with lead shot and resin poured

around everything. Then I added a couple thousand pounds more to bring the waterline down to where it’s supposed to be. I’
d be curious to compare your waterline position to what I had used. I don’t remember if it came from the location on the
original drawings or how I actually located it.

Here's a few more pictures of the boat, some in water that I thought you'd like to see.

You found the Marina. It's called
Pelican Bay Marina and Restaurant
and it's on the West side of the
Genesee River directly opposite
from the railroad turn bridge. Yes
Lake Ontario is where I learned to
sail when I was a kid and where I
sailed my Cal 28 and then the
Horne. It's a great lake to sail on
with Toronto and Niagara Falls to
the West and the Thousand Islands
in the St. Lawrence River to the East.

From Ben:

I think I found the marina where you
launched 'Knot Tonite' on Google
Earth. Does this mean you sailed on
the great Lakes?

From Ben: That raised stern rail is great! It's given me an idea for Falcon.