Centerboard pin Just use a type 316 SS pin you can buy a bolt 12 inches long and cut the head off, then its just right. You also need to place...
Electronics is my weak spot. Here is the situation. I bought a 31 yo 42 ft midship cockpit sailboat -a Brewer 12.8. The previous owner cruised it...
Hello all you prop geniusies! I could not get a straight answer from PYI so I will try here. Question: Im replacing a standard Michigan 3 blade...
Ted Brewer is sending me the drawings of the centerboard. He says that Ft Myers builders did not follow his design on the hoist arrangement. :cool:
Then more vibrations why have more lines there to vibrate?
DOnt want that NO clutter up the cockpit floor?? No NO
board is gone cant experiment with grease as board is 'gone' into the bay at Luperon D.R. The hoist line is still there as is the dedicated...
Hoisting arrangment sketch by Brewer As you can see -it is not a straight pull but one turned 90 degrees thru a curved pipe. No wonder its a huge...
This is one reason I think a lighter same shape board might work better..Albeit one with a pronounced lead weight at the end.
centerboard problematics Its not the hoist wire that vibrates -- there was a fixed check wire that kept the board from moving forward--as I...
3.5 inches wide X 6ft longX2ft high.. 120bs -not 1200 lbs LOL
:D I recently bought a 1983 Bewer 12.8 hull 6 of 9 . The previous owner got mad at the centerboard and dropped it in the bay at Luperon D.R....
