I got back in from anchoring out this morning and went to breakfast with other members of the sailing club. I planned to get up with hans and go sailing.
After breakfast I went down to the boat and started putting the fairleads on the stantions on the port side of sea puppy and also the turning block with cam cleat attached to the toerail on port to secure the furling line….
Hans showed up about then and sat down on the dock as I got the two fairleads on and the small stantion mounted block roughly mounted.. About then the clouds which had been closing in all morning started to mist rain over us. Gradually increasing to a heavier steady rain. Hans had big golf umbrela he put up and I rigged the umbrella I keep on the boat to the main sheet and boom so I could sit in the hatch and stay dry. We sat and talked and watched the ran come down over the marina for a couple hours. 🙂 another cup of hot chocolate went down nicely as well as we sat there.
Finally I went to the hardware store and got the locking nuts I needed for the bolts to bold on the turning block with the locking cams. I didn’t install it this day.. the rain stayed well into early evening.. I went and played darts with Angela and Hans 🙂 poor Hans… he is the dart player and Angela and I neither of which have thrown a dart in many years each won one of the two games we played with him. Talk about begineers luck.
back to the roller furling.. here are pictures of the whole setup.. I finished installing it all the next morning.. Also replaced one of the port side stantion bases that had cracked.. I had to shear off the screw head that come through the toe rail into the threaded hole in the stantion side. It was stainless and the stantion base is aluminum.. it had permanently corroded together. I had to drill it out after that to get the base off of the stantion shaft. But it all went well. I even got a stainless bolt to replace the sheared and drilled one from richard after breakfast. 🙂 thanks richard! It all went back together great I bedded the base down in 4200 between it and the hull and put silicone caulking on the stainless bolt before screwing it in. This should keep it from corroding again.
Here is the rear turning block with the cam cleat. Furling line already fed through it..
Looking down the side deck as the furling line goes through the fair leads
One of the two fair leads the furling line goes through
The forward stantion mounted block that is attached to the aft end of the bow pulpit.
You can see the furling line entering the furling drum at an appropriate angle here. Also you cand see the plates we manufactured to go between the furling unit and the chain plate. This is an older furlex furling unit.. It has twin slots in the aft edge of a foil shapped aluminum extrusion.
Side View. It looks as if the furler touches the forward pulpit leg but it doesn’t. The pulpit was modified by the original owner. Mike Butts to clearance the furling unit.
You can see in this shot the unit does clear the pulpit leg as well as see the jib sheets as the come up and wrap around the sail and furling unit.
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