by Guest » Thu Aug 10, 2000 11:44 am
Is your boat a Day Sailer I or Day sailer II? The DS II uses 2 lines (or cables) to control the board, one pulls it down and the other up. On my 1979 the line to pull the board down runs from the cuddy top (inside cuddy) to a block on a line coming up through a hole in the top, forward end of the cb trunk, then back up to a block on the cuddy top, then down to a block next to the trunk and then aft to a cleat on the side of the trunk. The line to pull the board up runs from alongside the mast, back through a block attached to a cable that runs through the front end of the cb trunk, then back forward to a block next to the maststep, then aft to the same cleat as the downline. As I understand it, the early DS II had the down line running forward instead of up to the cuddy top, but I could be wrong.
Sounds like yours may be an owner-modified set up.
Rod Johnson (rjohnson24-at-juno.com)