The stops on my boat work well and prevent exactly the kind of thing that happened to you. As for your wife..........................not sure I have a fix for that that doesn't involve a lot of money. If it makes you feel any better, my wife has over the years put up with - sometimes with good humor and sometimes not - A failed fuel pump that I fixed with an outboard squeeze bulb. She had to squeeze the whole way home or steer while I squeezed. SQUEEZE HARDER DON'T LET IT GO SOFT was yelled frequently to encourage maintenance of fuel pressure :) An engine that died on the last day of our cruise about 10 yards from the mooring. This then entailed putting the engine in the dinghy, dragging it up on the dock, and using a tree to hoist it into her car. Everything was going great until the A4- lacking a front oil seal - dumped a quart of oil in her car. This same cruise involved several days with a heat index around 108-110 and 100% humidity at night. We tried watching a movie at night in the cockpit for more air and 1,000 moths landed on the TV. And then the engine was in the shop and my basement for 2 months getting fixed. A fuel fill hose that popped a leak and dumped several gallons of gas into the bilge. A bilge pump that for some reason - after a decade of good service - decided to siphon INTO the boat and caused my wife to step into almost knee-deep water around 0200 when she got up to use the head. More engine malfunctions than I can count until I finally gave the damn thing away and got another one. My wife actually accused me of LIKING these issues because one day I was dancing around yelling "I AM A GOD OF ENGINES" after a successful MacGyver fix of some ignition malfunction.
Even brand new boats have all kinds of issues. Anyone who buys a used boat or airplane has a year or two of getting everything fixed and even then it is always an adventure. A lot of cash will get you a new boat, but it isn't easy to fix the expectation that old boats (and airplanes and antique cars and 1960s British motorcycles) will run like a Honda Civic. Cruising- (cruzing) Verb. The act of doing boat repairs in exotic locations Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I From: cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of djhaug...@juno.com Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:32 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Edson chain and wire pedestal failure Okay so, Here is what I think may have happened. I think, when I let go of the wheel to help furl the headsail, the rudder swung hard to port and went right past the stop. This allowed the chain to roll right off the sprocket. When I was playing around with trying to get it back, I got the chain to cable fitting to go back over the steering shaft and the stop spindle on the rudder post wheel to slip back by the stop on the bulkhead. What good is a stop if it doesn't stop anything? Anyway I guess I should have engaged the break or tied off the wheel before I let it go. I'm going to head down tonight and try and remove the cable and chain to order a new one. I'm also going to get in the water and have a look at the prop and shaft as there is some mysterious vibration happening now...I wonder if the rudder managed to swing so far as to have bent the brand new $500.00 shaft I just installed... Or maybe it bent the strut... The wife is pretty disgusted in the whole ordeal. she feels we wasted and entire summer working on this boat only to have this happen and we're not done working on it and we can't go sailing because we need to make ANOTHER repair and waste more great weather working on the boat. I think she has also lost confidence in the boat... I tried to take all the blame myself saying we didn't do enough shake down sailing and that it was my fault for letting go of the wheel and allowing the rudder to swing... Her take is that we should be able to let go of the wheel in a troubled situation and not worry about becoming disabled...I tend to agree. As much as we both like the wheel I'm considering going back to the tiller...or I need to beef up the stops or find a better solution to prevent this from happening again. I think, knowing what I know now, I will be more careful about tying the wheel off. Or...I don't know,... it is hard to believe this has never happened before... Any insights are always appreciated... Don't worry about hurting my delicate sensibilities... LOL I have to try and get the boat back in the wife's good graces or I could really end up in a Catalina.... Danny ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Martin DeYoung <mdeyo...@deyoungmfg.com<mailto:mdeyo...@deyoungmfg.com>> To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> Subject: Re: Stus-List Edson chain and wire pedestal failure Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:34:53 +0000 Friends don't let friends buy Catalina's, Hunter's, or Bayliner's. MartinCalypso 1971 C&C 43 Seattle ________________________________ From: cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com]<mailto:[mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com]> On Behalf Of djhaug...@juno.com<mailto:djhaug...@juno.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:56 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List Edson chain and wire pedestal failure I hear ya, Russ... I'm not letting beat though...came close and the wife is saying..."Now I know why people buy the brand new Catalina..." ewwww you could have 2 or 3 catalinas for the price of the Sabre that I covet! If it hadn't been for the rough seas, the fast response of Tow BoatUS and the comfort level of my wife...I'd have dropped down below. As it turns out, if I had removed the cable or pulled the pin in the pedestal I probably would have had control again. I guess the thing is that, I had ot done anything with the steering sytem so I was not at all familiar with it...I should have known better. I just hope my wife forgives the Viking pretty quickly or she'll be pushing even harder for the Catlina...At least she isn't get out of boating all together! if worse comes to worse a catlina is better than no boat at all!!! LOL You can't beat the speed though...we were hitting 9 knots with the currents with just the head sail before all hell broke loose! lets see a catlina do that! LOL Danny
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