by Guest » Thu Jan 25, 2001 1:06 pm
On my 1979 DS II, the lifting cable is attached to the top of the cb by a stainless steel tang, held on to the board by 3 screws. the line to pull the board down is 1/4" dacron 3-strand line and attaches to the board through a hole in the leading edge this hole was then filled with some putty. My lifting cable exits the trunk on the forward end, and is spliced to a single block through which the lifting line runs. My lifting and lowering lines are actually both the same line, one end lifts, the other lowers. Anyway, the line deadends near the mast, runs back through the block on the lift cable, then forward to a block on the cuddy floor opposite the dead-end of the line, then aft through the cuddy bulkhead to the cleat on the starboard side of the cb trunk, the other end of the line is tied to the becket of a block mounted to the underside of the cuddy top, then down through a block attached to the cb down line, up to through the block mounted to the cuddy, then down to a block on the starboard side of the cb trunk then aft through the bulkhead to the same cleat as the upline. Believe me, the system is harder to describe than to use! It was the stock set-up at the time that my boat was built and I think was continued right through the production run of the DS III, and was introduced before 1975. In 1975, O'Day added a short piece of shock cord from the block on the lifting cable to a o]point just aft of the mast to keep some tension on the cable to avoid the possibility of a jam due to the cable being loose enough to get between the board and the inside of the trunk.
Rod Johnson (rjohnson24-at-juno.com)