[Rhodes22-list] (Joe's Centerboard Woes)

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Joe,
If it was working and isn't now and if you haven't used the boat 
much, I would suspect crud (the polite term is marine growth) of some 
sort in the slot or on the bottom of the boat in general I don't know 
what you get for growth in the Bohemia but further south, I've heard 
reports that it is really bad this year.

We've had issues many years where we haven't used the boat much where 
the centerboard won't go down all the way by the end f the season. 
We've usually been able to clear it by taking the boat out on a 
breezey lumpy day and doing lots of tacks. With two people on board, 
one can sail and the other can repeatedly raise and lower the board. 
For us, it's eventually always gone down if the issue is marine growth.

Best wishes,
Mary Lou






At 04:22 PM 7/30/2013, you wrote:
>Mary Lou:
>
>      We launched in April, floated her off the trailer, and as my 
> buddy pulled the boat clear, the centerboard was caught between the 
> guide boards and the bunk, leaving her tilted to port and hung up 
> on the trailer.  My buddy got aboard, a backed into the water to 
> get it floating, and he pulled up the centerboard.  There would 
> have been some sideways pressure on the centerboard, I'm sure. I 
> think it worked OK after that(that day).  I noticed the trouble a 
> couple of weeks ago.
>
>Joe
>
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
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> >Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 10:18 PM
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> >
> >How did you get it back up in the keel when it dropped on launch? If
> >you weren't pulling on the pendent, it could be a loop of the pendant
> >binding somewhere near the block (if you have one) in the trunk. We
> >had that happen once but I forget how it happened. I think we were
> >able to work it out with the boat in the water. When we redid the
> >pendant a year or two later, we did away with the block.
> >
> >Mary Lou
> >1991 R22 Fretless
> >Rock Hall, MD
> >
> >
> >At 04:55 PM 7/29/2013, you wrote:
> >>Hey Community:
> >>
> >>      I have a centerboard issue to field:  My centerboard will not
> >> go all of the way down.  The boat is an '87 Recycle, and I have to
> >> suppose that I have the standard centerboard.  It worked in seasons
> >> past, but this April, on launching, my centerboard went down and
> >> became jammed in the trailer.  We got it back up into the keel, but
> >> I wonder if I might have bent a pin or altered some usually smooth
> >> mechanical process which now has me vexed.  Please give me your
> >> assessments on potential causes.  Ultimately, I may have just have
> >> to wait for trailer season to dismantle the guts of the beast and
> >> see first hand.  Thanks.
> >>
> >>Joe Camp
> >>s/v John Dawson
> >>Bohemia River, MD
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