Well, we are starting to see some signs of spring in the boat yard. You know, the sounds of sanding, scraping and polishing! I normally like to be ready to sail by around April 1 here in Virginia, even though nice warm sailing days still are still elusive early in the month. So I need to get started myself.
This quarter we have an article on replacing the bearings in the Shaeffer furlers that were standard on many of our boats. Second, I will share my findings and a response I received from Westerbeke on my raw water pump seal failure. Lastly, I also will provide the quarterly summary of Yahoo discussions that I started in last quarter’s edition.
I hope that you have a great sailing season in 2011 and I look forward to receiving many future helpful and informative technical articles to publish here in Mainsheet.
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Recent discussions on the C380 forum have discussed actually removing the cockpit table but here is a project that goes in just the opposite direction – it makes it bigger!
Cockpit Table Extension
My wife and daughter and I often sail with our friends, the Corey’s, who own a C34 they purchased new over 20 years ago. When we throw the hook, we have happy hour and then dinner on one boat or the other. The cockpit table in the 387 seats four people comfortably but we typically have at least 5 – thus the project to add a portable extension to the table.
The project is fairly simple but has some interesting aspects that are worth discussing.
The first thing I did was to create a template of the shape I needed to butt against the existing cockpit table. One could just use a straight
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Boat repairs are like war; the plan only lasts until the first battle starts!
It all started when the boat was pulled at the end of last season. I noticed that the lower rudder bearing was loose – something new since the boat was last pulled. From there, I noticed a crack in the forward portion of the rudder so drilled a small hole in the bottom of the rudder and found that a small amount of water drained out. As with many projects, had I known at the beginning what I knew in the end, I would have done a different project. It was just one of those things that kept getting bigger as you went along.
Important to this discussion is that I have a C387 and not a C380. Evidently the length of the rudder post is different
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Reinforcing the Anchor Roller for a Spinnaker Tack Point;
Spinnaker Running Gear Ideas
By Tim Porter, C380 #199 Serendipity
Mainsheet, December 2011
The forward end of the C380 anchor roller is 20 inches ahead of the forestay attach plate, 10 inches ahead and clear of the bow pulpit, and on Serendipity was just begging to be used as the tack point for an asymmetrical spinnaker! The only issue was the upward load put on the anchor roller attachment in anything more than a light breeze. I solved this problem by having a “bobstay strap” made which attaches to the bottom of the anchor roller and the existing chainplate for the forestay located on the stem (photo 1). The strap has the additional benefit of strengthening the anchor roller in the downward direction, making it less likely you’ll damage it with excessive loading while weighing anchor (stuck anchor, pulling up a
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