[Rhodes22-list] Tangent Topping Lift Question

[Michael D. Weisner]

Fred,

Sounds like you bought the Don Casey book.  I used BoatLife's LifeSeal on my 
portlights and have not have any water leakage since.  The secret is in the 
prep, which you have obviously studied and attended to quite thoroughly. 
With sealants, there are few, if any, shortcuts that are worth taking.  Best 
of luck in keeping the cabin dry this season.

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY

From: "Fred Kaiser" <fkaiser at atlanticbb.net>Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 
2:02 PM
>I am re-bedding all port and starboard ports. A couple were leaking
> last season and we decided to re-bed all.  They have been removed,
> cleaned up from residual sealant, the spider cracks around the screw
> holes sealed with epoxy and I'm waiting for warmer weather to re-bed
> using Life Seal Sealant.
>
> Fred
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
>
>
> At 01:24 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
>>Mary Lou,
>>
>>Why the blue tape around the windows?  Are you re-bedding the the windows?
>>
>>Hank
>>
>>
>>On 3/7/08, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Just got to the boat and back before the rain.
>> >
>> > Here is the portside turning block. Topping lift comes from the
>> > masthead and through this block to the cam cleat on the cabin top.
>> > One screw on the padeye also holds the plate for the tang for the aft
>> > lower. The other is just into the fiberglass.
>> >
>> > Mary Lou
>> > 1991 R22 Fretless
>> > Rock Hall, MD
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 12:22 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
>> > >Hank (and John),
>> > >Our masthead has double sheaves on the front of the mast and double
>> > >sheaves aft. Our topping lift runs from the boom end to the aft
>> > >masthead sheave, over the front sheave and down to a block on the
>> > >port side near the base of the aft lower stay (I'm going to have to
>> > >go look at the boat to see exactly where this is) and from that block
>> > >to a cam cleat on the port side cabin top. It works well. You can see
>> > >the cam cleat on the cabin top in the attached pic.
>> > >
>> > >Mary Lou
>> > >1991 R22  Fretless
>> > >Rock Hall, MD
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >At 11:42 AM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
>> > > >While we are on the topic of topping lifts, how do most of your run 
>> > > >the
>> > free
>> > > >end of the topping lift?  With the way the sheave is situated, it 
>> > > >comes
>> > out
>> > > >inside the mast and I am afraid of it getting wraped up in the main.
>> > > >
>> > > >Actually this happened once and we had to drop the mast to fix
>> > it.  Since
>> > > >then, I have run some rigging tape around the mast below the sheave 
>> > > >and
>> > the
>> > > >topping lift now goes outside of that so that it stays away from the
>> > > >furler.
>> > > >
>> > > >Hank
>> > > >
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