A few weeks later..

And a few more issues arise. Nothing that surprising, well more of that in a bit.

On board last weekend to find the inner forestay fitting pulling out of the deck. Hmm. Not especially good. Slackened it off and then pulled the lining out down below. Fingers through into some rotten timber, but only a fashion piece not the main beam as initailly thought. No sign of through bolts comming through. Odd. Tried unscrewing one from on deck to find it was a coach bolt. Hmm, no wonder it pulled out. Unscrewed the bottle screw below deck and removed. Pulled the main fitting out. The old cast/wrought fitting has cracked, the main 5/8th threaded rod appears OK, but a pretty poor design, so will have to be replaced. There's another weekend of sorting out to do. No surprises then. Apart from the rot that is, I was expecting it to be in the main beam. Anway plenty of more beams to look at before we are finished.

So the surprise? The decks don't appear to let as much water in as I was expecting.  :)

Now the things for this weekend.

New forestay fitting, strip out the lining and lockers in the f'c'sle, fit some sail track on the mast so the main can be reefed and dropped without having to pull all the slides off the mast, and fit some reefing cleats and eyes to pull down the tack, adjust the clew pennant so they actually pull the clew down, and think about fitting a new bilge pump that has some chance of pumping out a few gallons a minute rather than an hour. But 2012, I migh have a boat that is up to scratch!

3:19 PM - Oct. 12, 2007 - post comment