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Tim and I both have some kind of amored goop on our centerboard bolts to keep us from removing them.

John

When I opened the inspection ports for the first time when I got the boat, I was quite pleased to find clean, shiny, ungooped hardware holding the CB in. Given the non-stainless hardware the prior owner had installed elsewhere, I fully expected a rusted hardware store bolt, or maybe rusted all-thread.

jeadstx wrote:Tim and I both have some kind of amored goop on our centerboard bolts to keep us from removing them.

John

Thus my joy at finding out that I could effect CB control repairs and the brass through-hole fix *w/o* CB removal! ;-P

I found a graph on wikipedia that compares specs for modern sail cloth ( I think it is directly applicable to rope as well):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailcloth