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redeye
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Initially Posted - 09/12/2011 :  08:37:03  Show Profile
Sailed all weekend, just beautiful. Added an aft cleat. The aft rail was loose and the foot was bent up in an unusual fashion. I drilled out the holes of the rail and the current cleat, duct taped the bottom and injected G-flex. Repoured in more as it spread out into the rotted core. Amazing how thin this area is.. 1/2 or less of glass, no real core that I could tell. Added 1/4 inch x 2 1/2 machine screws in the cleats. washers, and lockwashers. Nylon lockwashers seemed like they would be difficult working with alone.

One set of screws was 3 inches.

Made a duct tape dam around the foot and poured in Flex and it made a form out of the odd footing on the rail. Waited overnight for everything to cure and added boatlife and hand tightened and after a few hours, tightened everything down.

Pretty tight clearances. the front cleat has 1 inch washers, but only room for 1/2 washers on the rear cleats. Forgot my regular socket set and no room for the deep sockets ( with the adapter for the drive change ).

Best trick was using 6 inch vice grips to lock onto the nut on the bottom and screw the heads in from the top.

That got one of my spring lines off the winch...
Ray in Atlanta, Ga.
"Lee Key" '84 Catalina 25
Standard Rig / Fin Keel
Edited by - redeye on 09/12/2011 08:39:31
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