I feel for you. I hope you won't get discouraged. Fixing up an old boat is always worth the time and effort. It raises the resell value and I'm sure you learned a lot which is priceless. I suggest you do your next shakedown without the wife, so you can work out some bugs and know all your systems are working and she can enjoy a less adventuress sail. (Though I envy you. My wife doesn't come sailing anymore. She gets queasy at the dock, and just doesn't enjoy sailing.) I know a couple got a 24 foot O'Day for free and spent 4 years fixing it up before their first sail. I see many boats never leave the dock.
Do you have an autopilot? Edson also sells a short cable stop that would prevent your problem. The cable gets attached to the quadrant and to a structural boat member, and simply goes taught when the runner turns past 30 degrees or so. I also ran my furling line back to the wheel, and a set of winches so I can do it all myself at the wheel. It takes time to get a boat the way you want it, and how you want it changes over time, so it's never done. It's always improving. I moved my traveller twice till I was happy with it. I did so much drilling and filling, I know the whole boat inside and out. Last thought: You didn't miss much cruising time working on the boat. The middle of summer is too hot, no wind, and too high humidity to enjoy without AC. Sept/Oct is the best sailing time of the year. The water is still warm enough for swimming, winds are more dependable, nights cool enough to allow a blanket for good sleeping aboard. I'm sure you'll fix this recent steering problem and be back out before you know it. Chuck Resolute 1990 C&C 34R Atlantic City, NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: djhaug...@juno.com To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:32:07 AM 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> To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <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] On Behalf Of djhaug...@juno.com Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:56 AM To: 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 _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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