Checking keel pin
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 5:52 pm
This past July our son was visiting us in NC. The 26 hasn'tleft the dock for 4 years because I hve been aprehensive about the keel pin. I have never had the boat out of the water . I have been going to do a trailer conversion but other projects always jump ahead.
We were looking at the remains of a topping lift wondering if we could use it to lay the boat on its side. we positioned the boat at the edge of the creek then ran a line from the topping lift to the hitch on the Jeep. I had my wife drive the Jeep while son and I watched the boat go over.
We had emptied the boat of all the stuff. Once over, we tied the boat off to a tree and put the keel down to prevent the boat from self righting.
The keel shoes were in good shape and the pin appeared to befull diameter from what we could see.rudder seemed sound with all attachments secure. Did'nt change the downhaul/uphaul lines, should have! After my anual barnacle scraping we inspected the hull. It was smooth with no sign of blisters. The keel also was smooth with no sign of heavy rust as I expected to see. At some time, someone must have spent some time working on the bottom.
Found out the deck hull joint leaks. Not really surprised. finished up the inspection and stood the boat back up and bailed buckets of water out. After that we felt more confident about taling her out sailing
http://picasaweb.google.com/10570348534 ... directlink
If this works, sailing pics to follow
Clair
We were looking at the remains of a topping lift wondering if we could use it to lay the boat on its side. we positioned the boat at the edge of the creek then ran a line from the topping lift to the hitch on the Jeep. I had my wife drive the Jeep while son and I watched the boat go over.
We had emptied the boat of all the stuff. Once over, we tied the boat off to a tree and put the keel down to prevent the boat from self righting.
The keel shoes were in good shape and the pin appeared to befull diameter from what we could see.rudder seemed sound with all attachments secure. Did'nt change the downhaul/uphaul lines, should have! After my anual barnacle scraping we inspected the hull. It was smooth with no sign of blisters. The keel also was smooth with no sign of heavy rust as I expected to see. At some time, someone must have spent some time working on the bottom.
Found out the deck hull joint leaks. Not really surprised. finished up the inspection and stood the boat back up and bailed buckets of water out. After that we felt more confident about taling her out sailing
http://picasaweb.google.com/10570348534 ... directlink
If this works, sailing pics to follow
Clair