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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 04/06/2008 : 20:30:32

I got a new tire to replace the worn spare that's now become my fifth wheel arrangement. I was surprised at how much the tire turned out to be, nearly $100, I was expecting around $60-$65. Oh well, now I know I've got a good spare that matches all the other tires on the trailer, and hopefully a much better launching system. Thanks to Randy for the suggestion, and everyone else's input.

We also got our bow roller installed today, thanks to Rita's near heroic efforts. As some of you remember she broke her foot about 4-1/2 months ago, and hasn't been on the boat since, mostly because it was too difficult to do. Well, I determined that there was no way I getting one of my mitts inside the inspection port to hold onto the nuts, so I asked her if she thought she could get up on the boat to help. She was game to try, so I prepped everything for her hoping for a clean and easy process. Of course this wasn't to be...
My plan was to over drill the holes & epoxy them, but after looking at the place where it was going to go I determined that I was probably going to end up drilling right through the hull to make the oversized holes, or at least the most forward one was going to go through the hull/deck joint. I decided to simply drill and then seal with 3m 4000. I drilled the holes, no problems, put a nice chamfer on them with a bit, and then mounted the AR-3 roller in place with enough 4000 under it to seal nicely. I put in the first bolt, and Rita reached in to put on the backing nut & washer...and the bolt was too short. Someone had recommended 1-1/2" bolts, which only stuck out about 1/8", and she couldn't get the nut on. So, that means a trip to the hardware store for me, after helping her climb back down from the boat. After the trip to the store to buy several more bolts, lunch, and watching the Mariners snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, I went back outside to see if I could get the bolts on by using a socket extension so she wouldn't have to climb back up on the boat. I was able to get one on, but managed to lose the next one down into the bowels of the boat, along with it's washer. So I went and got my little grabby thing (don't know what it's called, has a push button on one end & four tines on the other to grab stuff) to try to recover the nut & washer...no dice. Then I managed to fumble the end of the tool, so down it went too, now fairly permanently ensconced in the bow of the boat along with the errant nut & washer. So, another trip to the hardware store for some more nylocks & washers (I bought extras), and I was ruminating on how I could get the nuts onto the bolts through the hole w/o bothering Rita again. But when I got back, to my surprise she volunteered to help, what a woman, huh?

So, to make a long story short (too late!), we finally managed to get all three bolts into the bow to fasten down the bow roller. Woohoo!

Rita's paying the price a bit now, her foot's having a chat with her, but we're both glad it's done, and now we don't have to worry about scraping up the side of the boat when we're weighing or setting our anchor.

David
C-250 Mainsheet Editor

Sirius Lepak
1997 C-250 WK TR #271 --Seattle area Port Captain --

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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 04/07/2008 : 11:06:58

Thanks for the decription of getting the roller on. When I did that on the Nauti Duck it was the only time in my life that I wish we had a small pet monkey who could thread a nut on a bolt. Working in that tiny forward compartment is a !@#$!!

Please post pix of the completed job.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 04/08/2008 : 21:42:16

Here are some photos:

Here you can see the rust stain I want to get rid of:

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