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azexploder
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Initially Posted - 01/09/2004 :  17:54:01  Show Profile  Visit azexploder's Homepage
I just faired and painted my keel and was in the process of re-installing when I noticed my keel cable went strait back to the turning ball from the attachment point on the keel. I thought it has slipped out of the pulley mounted in the trunk somehow. The pulley was intact but hanging by one stripped bolt and the other was snapped off at the point it exits the fiberglass.

Hummm…..

How to re-attach the pully knowing the hard angles involved with the turning ball and the weight of the load.

Do I hunt down some kind of anchor and bolt?
Do I thread a bolt into the fglass?
Do I cut a hole in the cabin/tank near the little table and use bolts and backing plate, then cover up with inspection plate(or fglass over holes)?

I have the premier race of the season next weekend and need a fix ASAP. I hoped to get some sailing in, but project mode continues.
Thanks in advance..8-)
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azexploder
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Response Posted - 01/09/2004 :  18:02:45  Show Profile  Visit azexploder's Homepage
Just for laughs, I called catalina. Kent there suggest that "what other have done" is to drill the hole out to the next size, tap, and locktite/lock washer the new bolts in.

How often does this happen I wonder???

Off donate to my favorite charity - Home Depot...
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azexploder
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Response Posted - 01/31/2004 :  14:18:50  Show Profile  Visit azexploder's Homepage
More hummm... Just pulled the carpet below the table and found two bolts...looked just like the ones that would be holding up the keel lead block...and look...two holes...that go through liner and hull(no tank there since they where bolted through the keel trunk).

Think Catalina would have related that to me if it was origional!?! Would have saved me several hours of advice gathering, part searching, and drilling holes in the hull 8-(
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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 01/31/2004 :  16:37:11  Show Profile  Visit Arlyn Stewart's Homepage
Mike, the bolts thru the interior liner floor were not original... the PO or a repair facility did some ad lib engineering. Interesting.
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