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Ahoy and Welcome to Do It Yourself (DIY) Sailor portal.  You've landed on the US Yacht, Bayliner Buccaneer, Triton, and Corinthian sailboat owners unofficial web site, not that there's official one out there. Here you will find an exclusively owner driven community with information regarding these fine old sailboats.  You can also find DIY owner projects, upkeep, modifications, maintenance, and anything else the DIY Sailor can think of.

After reaching the end of the internet, there was little to find about these models of sailboats. This is a user centric wiki project. The content here is entirely built by the owners to help out fellow owners or wanna be owners. Please have a look around and help build the site. May you have dirty fingernails, fair winds, and following seas.  Mahalo!

  -Cap'n Chris and Brian

 

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<---- Follow Bucc 275 Mad Jibe restoration, listed under the Buccaneer sailboats link.

New interactive photo gallery.  See many pictures at once. Right click to go full screen!  Link

Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 May 2009 18:21
 

1978 Bucc 275 S/V second wind Restoration

Friday, 27 March 2009 20:11 Brian Videos - Bayliner Bucc videos
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DIYSailor has been following the restoration of Nataniel Frost's  1978 Buccaneer 275 Mad Jibe.  He is 14 years old and is restoring this Bucc to liveabord when he turns 17.

From his blog:

hi all! my name is nathaniel, im 14 and own a 1978 bayliner buccaneer 275 that restoring to livaboard in two years while going to marine trade school, and working as a sailmaker. i know its just another blog about some livaboard person blah blah blah! wrong! im trying to make this into a site to help fellow sailors, and share my story about finding a boat to livaboard. i know 27 feet is bigger than a 24 footer but its still small. i have no refridgeratior, or oven, no pantry, no bath tub, and only hand pumped water, i will have to live off of 30 galons of water for showers, washing dishes, cleaning, and any other water use. my bed is a bit longer than 6 feet. my desk is my table, my table is about 3 1/2 feet long, and my galley is is only a few feet long and about 2 feet wide. my stove is a 2 burner colman camp stove. i have a stand in shower, and a porta poti. i have a head room of 6'1. and a beem of 8 feet a draft of 27 inches yes 27 inches no center board. just 27 inches of lead. iv got a non working volvo penta, and a brand new mercury 9.9 outboard long shaft with electric start. i have 1 deep cycle battery, and a shore power hook up, i also plan on getting a small gas Generator that i can use in the cockpit if i lose power or am anchored out.
i have no hot water so i will use a camp stove to heat up water. i have a small cabin sole heater that runs off of 120 volt shore power to get the boat up to 50 deg in the winter and i plan on getting a propane heater, for the summer i have a small fan, and im going to wire more, i also plan on geting a "window" air conditioner that wil be mounted on its own drop board.

You can follow his blog here:

http://www.sailblogs.com/member/livaboard/

http://b275livaboard.blogspot.com/

or email him at:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 May 2009 23:23
 

News

02Jul09:  Happy 4th!!!  Well, the site was down for a few weeks... I was on a 5 day trip to Africa that turned into 5 weeks.   We lost power to the server and I couldn't fix it remotely.  All is good now!  

19May09:  Look for updates from Cap'n Frost's adventures: Link

27Mar09:  BoatersWorld chain is going out of business.  Upgraded message board to a new version and search plugins for it.

25Mar09:  Added extra security to the registration page to deture spam bots.

20Mar09:  Added new poll and Buccaneer original manuals that are searchable: Link

19MAR09:  Email system now working.  New poll added to the front page.

09MAR09: Added Most read articles to the left column of the front page.  Also added article rating system.

08MAR09: Added an interactive photo gallery Link.  We had a major database failure on the web server but were able to recover it!

05MAR09: There is a new Facebook Buccaneer group (see DIY Wiki/Links). Added Tampa Bay sailing map under DIY Wiki/Sailing Destinations. Link

01MAR09: Added Triton Sailboats section to the main menu.

21FEB09: Added US35 information page to the wiki.  Uploaded Buccaneer brochure and US 35 brochure. Thanks,Cap' Al

19FEB09: New Bayliner Buccs Yahoo message board up.  Link

15FEB09: Added featured photos to the front page.  Added MSN Bucc archive.  Message board is working, however the pics seam to be dead.

11FEB09: Added a new poll

10JAN09:  Added Bayliner Buccaneer section to the message boards.

03JAN09: Server was off line last night to run backups.  Updated the server with a Drobo sporting four 1.5TB Drives.  Yes I'm a geek!

Capn Chris has written a full review of her new Sailrite sewing machine. Posted here in the wiki.

Last Updated on Thursday, 02 July 2009 15:48 Read more...
 

Latest Headlines

how to get sharpie marker off of leather (and other stains)

07-01-2009 | nathaniel frost Sharpies are great! till the get onto expensive leather... well spray sunscreen works to lift the stain out then buff with a cloth. so if you have leather on your boat have some spray sunscreen! just ...
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title to title... Bucc to Columbia 8.3!

06-30-2009 | nathaniel frost I was know as the youngest Bayliner Buccaneer owner after I purchased a 1978 bucc (s/v second wind) at only 14. I owned her for 8 months, taking care of her after a life of neglect. But this wou...
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outboard cowl (cover) repair

05-19-2009 | nathaniel frost Repairing a cowl for a 25hp outboard using fiberglass cloth and epoxy. First mask off the area around the repair. Epoxy is easy to get off when its wet, but you have to sand it off if you let it cure....
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winch lube, and oil

05-17-2009 | nathaniel frost Sailors know the joy of unsrewing the drum of there winches (and pray that no pawl springs shoot out!) and clean them and then lube them, this rather simple and easy way to keep sailing easy and fun i...
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foam brushes for oil and varnish?

05-17-2009 | nathaniel frost Varnishing may have just gotten a whole lot easier  with the foam brush. We all know the pain of having to use expensive and flammable thinners to clean those expensive varnish brushes... that get h...
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About Us

We (Capt. Chris and Brian) are the proud owners of a previously neglected 1981 Doug Peterson designed US30.  We've brought her back from near extinction with lots of blood, sweat, tears and $$.  She, "Wu-Wei" hWu-Weias owned us for several years.  This site was started as a project  to compile information about the 1981-1983 run of the United Sailing (US) Yachts line of Sailboats as well as the Buccs as they are related. Yes, they were built by (gulp!)  Bayliner, but they are a very hardy line of sailboats usually in need of some much needed DIY TLC.

Please email brian@diysailor if you  have any suggestions or comments for the site.

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