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

[Joe Camp]

Mary Lou:

Ha! Marine growth was my first guess.  The pendant is stained and dirty.  I will look to pour something (safe) down the tube.

Joe 



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> From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
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>Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 6:37 PM
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] (Joe's Centerboard Woes)
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>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
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>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
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>> > 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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