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PO added boom hardware - use? necessary?

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OJ
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Initially Posted - 05/01/2012 : 17:11:46

Preparing to install internal hardware and looking to eliminate extraneous stuff.

Looks like PO added this eye strap. Before I remove it and close the holes with rivets, what do you think it might have been used for?

Same with this cleat: ?

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JimGo
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Response Posted - 05/01/2012 : 19:59:26

Topping lift and reefing lines?

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Joe Diver
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Response Posted - 05/01/2012 : 20:38:37

Jiffy reefing system? Outhaul?

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redeye
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Response Posted - 05/02/2012 : 03:58:46

Strip it and start fresh with your designs. That's the fun of it all. They have new stuff now adays. Order up a catalogue from Annapolis Performance Sailing ( APS ) and have a lookie...

Git you some ring dings...

You will never use another cotter ring again.

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Response Posted - 05/02/2012 : 10:54:26

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by redeye
 Strip it and start fresh with your designs. That's the fun of it all. They have new stuff now adays. Order up a catalogue from Annapolis Performance Sailing ( APS ) and have a lookie...

Git you some ring dings...
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I like that approach. Ordered catalog and ring dings rock!

Thx!

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Response Posted - 05/04/2012 : 08:09:44

The cleat was probably for the external outhaul. Does the eyestrap line up with anything on the sail, i.e. 2nd reef point or flatening reef cringle? It is under the boom, right?
If there is a 2nd padeye farther forward, they could be for jack lines.

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Ape-X
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Response Posted - 05/04/2012 : 10:17:45

Google Ring Dings: YUM!
Now google APS ring dings, the PO installed on my tiller, nice LOL

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Response Posted - 05/06/2012 : 16:26:49

Suggest when you pull the hardware, replace the screw holes with short flat-head screws. Keeps the bugs and rainwater out.

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Response Posted - 05/06/2012 : 18:49:09

Extra forward cleat and aft eye strap have been removed and will close holes with shortest rivets possible.

Now that I have both end caps off I can see how far all of the screws protrude into the boom - will definitely snag the internal outhaul. Replacing all of the sheet metal screws with rivets. Machine screws for the cheek block will be shortened.

The bail for the boom vang was most probably not installed by Catalina - the thru-bolt is incredibly crooked!

Time consuming project - still having fun, I think.

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Response Posted - 05/07/2012 : 04:19:29

Not that I'm gonna do one anytime soon.. but I couldn't help but think about the internal design and wonder about making a hole on the side and have my line enter the boom there and secure with a knot. The bitter end of the line that goes through the block.

Exit to a clam cleat with a roller.

Makes it easy to keep an eye on the bitter end of that line, and easy to change out the line.

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Response Posted - 05/07/2012 : 04:41:52

be sure to securely fasten the end blocks: found an extra screw on the deck this spring: pulling off a tarp: BANG! the boom fell down. At least I found where the missing screw came from. AND that I was aparrently missing the other.

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Response Posted - 05/07/2012 : 18:38:39

FWIW, failed to explain the boom is upside down in this photo. When I went to remove this eye strap I noticed marks from a line - I'm guessing from a previous lazy jack system.

Someday I'm going figure out if that black tape if in the correct place - especially for our new(er) main sail.

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