[Rhodes22-list] Loose centerboard

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Bill,
Congrats on the new o you boat! Where do you sail?

Boats with centerboards often 'clunk' on a run. I'm no expert but I 
suspect that what you have is what it should be. Raise the CB on a 
run or at anchor and the problem goes away.

Best,
Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 05:21 PM 10/20/2010, you wrote:

>Hi everyone!
>
>My wife and I recently bought a used Rhodes 22 (1987 model) and took it for
>a sail last weekend.  Everything was wonderful until we turned to a downwind
>course with little wind but modest waves and heard repeated "clunking."  At
>first we thought we must have caught the line from a crab-pot and checked
>around the hull to find the source, but found nothing.  Then my wife climbed
>into the cabin and said it was louder down there.  We were heading in after
>a day on the boat anyway, so I pulled the centerboard up to start the engine
>. . . and the clunking went away!
>
>When we got the boat up on the trailer I climbed under to "feel" the
>centerboard, and sure enough it seemed like it had lost it's pivot or
>something equally dire.  The distal end was supported on the trailer roller,
>but the pined end could be easily moved up and down and even sideways.
>
>So Monday I opened up the trunk cap to see what was happening in there.  To
>my surprise, the trunk is roughly 2" across, but the centerboard is only
>(roughly) 1.375" thick . . . leaving 5/8" of slop!  The pin was still there,
>but much smaller (slightly less than an inch in diameter) than the slot it
>was resting in.  At least it was still resting in the slot.  Here is a
>picture looking downward into the forward part of the trunk:
>http://poiesisresearch.com/CBtrunk.png.
>
>Is this the normal arrangement?  I would think that the closest dimensions
>that allowed free up and down movement would be preferable.
>
>Has anyone tried putting spacers on either side of the centerboard to "snug
>it up?"  And bearing sleeves around the pin ends to snug them up in their
>slots as well?  I'm thinking large (whatever will fit without protruding
>below the trunk) "washers" made from Ultra-High Molecular Weight
>Polyethylene (UHMW-PE) cut to the appropriate thickness would work nicely
>for both tasks.  Will this screw up something else?
>
>Thanks everyone, these are fantastic boats!
>
>Bill and Anne
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