[Rhodes22-list] Centerboard lifting mechanism

[Mary Lou Troy]

6 screw cap? Yours must be different than ours which has lots more 
screws than that. Maybe you have an inspection port? - that would be 
nice. Doesn't sound like you had to disassemble the furniture to get 
at it. Our centerboard (a "diamond board" as opposed to an older 
style board) used to have a pulley system. We eliminated it and ours 
is now direct pull. When we got rid of the pulley, we had the 
furniture disassembled and the centerboard cap off. We did have a 
tiny inspection port with a rubber plug that was pretty useless. We 
glassed over that. Several years ago our marina had the boat up on 
the lift for bottom painting and we replaced the pennant then.

The direct pull pennant works fine on our board.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 07:45 PM 10/27/2011, you wrote:

>Went out for an afternoon sail 74degrees, 10mph winds. Should have been
>wonderful but when stopped I could hear water coming into the boat
>somewhere. Went down below and water was very slowly rising. Pulled the
>floor up around the centerboard trunk and water was bubbling up through 3
>holes in a cap held down by 6 screws on top of the centerboard cap. Pulled
>the boat back onto its trailer and took the 6 screw cap off. Looks like
>perhaps some tackle system was attached there for the centerboard pendant.
>My question is how is the pendant supposed to attach to the centerboard so I
>can seal my bilge fountain.
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