[Rhodes22-list] Unbolted track

[stan]

My O my, I am flattered when those Rhodies who praise the Rhodes 
engineering get pleasure out of finding what they think is a flaw.

In the Rhodes 50 plus years, I have not heard of a single genoa track 
pull off - when used for what it was designed to do; carry the load of 
the giant 175 genoa sheets. That load is carried by a great number of 
machine screws; more than sufficient to carry the _shear_ loading placed 
on them.  Of course Todd did not mean they should be bolted on to the 
gel coat.  But I think his comment that /"I've found more than a few 
questionable//things which needed to be properly "re"engineered."/ is 
gratuitously disingenuous. Personally my over the hill engineering mind 
would think it silly to mount docking cleats to genoa tracks. Even if 
those tracks had long enough machine screw passing all the way through 
the outerside of the hull and had fender washers and lock nuts on them, 
those shiftable docking cleats would distort the thin edges of the genoa 
tracks making the genoa cars a chore or even impossible to adjust.

If you want to put on docking cleats, mount them to the boat proper. You want a spring line cleat, don't use it for a docking cleat.  You want a boat engineered for docking? Have I got a boat to sell you. No hands, no straps, just three little docking eyes. See attachment. Guaranteed to hold for any winds. Just stop putting moving docking cleats where they are not invited to go.

stan



On 7/25/21 12:00 PM, THOMAS POLISE via Rhodes22-list wrote:
> I found that there are no nuts or nut plates, just curious if anyone else had a similar situation.
>
>> On Jul 25, 2021, at 11:47 AM, Todd Tavares <tavares0947 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Those are machine screws. There should be nuts underneath or nut plates
>> embedded in the rail under the gelcoat.
>>
>> But it wouldn't surprise me if the machine screws were just threaded into
>> wood or even threaded into epoxy. I've found more than a few questionable
>> things which needed to be properly "re"engineered.
>> Let us know what you find once you dig into this problem.
>>
>> Todd T.
>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 11:10 AM Rick Lange <sloopblueheron at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>
>>> Would you prefer gelcoat damage?
>>>
>>> Never mount a dockline holding cleat without a backing plate.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Rick Lange
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 11:02 AM THOMAS POLISE via Rhodes22-list <
>>> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone else notice that the jib track is just put in without bolts.  I
>>>> added cleat to track which was yanked out in high winds.
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