[Rhodes22-list] Tangent Topping Lift Question

[john Belanger]

i'll gamble and say yes, but check the weather and start early in the day. ;-))

elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:  I also have one leaky port....what is a good source to read & see pix obout how to remove, clean, rebed, etc?

Can one port be done entirely in one day, assuming the doer is relatively intelligent & facile, and forward thinking enuf to have all supplies at hand??


elle

Fred Kaiser wrote:
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 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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