Hello Robin, Just bought late model M15 ( hull #322). Fantastic picture set of your repair trials an tribulations. Very helpful for my future repair endeavors! Chuck On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Robbin Roddewig < robbin.roddewig@verizon.net> wrote:
Hi M-boaters, dropped the board (luckily not literally) this week and put on the new double swagged halyard. The old swage was gone so it looks like during the pounding during the grounding the swagged loop simply came undone. The process took all day and it is always dicey working with a 350lb chunk of steel that can easily get away from you. I was amazed that once again, I removed the pivot and stop pin and the board just sat in the slot. We eventually were able to get it out after pounding on all kinds of places unsuccessfully but that board is a tight fit and apparently can hang up without too much encouragement. If anyone has to do this operation in the future, including me, build a 45 degree angled cradle for the board so you can use two hydraulic jacks to vertically move the board back into the slot and then roll the board toward bow or stern to align the pivot pin. You can get one jack on the bottom as you can see in my web pictures but you cannot get a second jack on the front without some kind of jig. We ended up doing all this the really hard way and it would be well worth the effort to make a cradle to allow two jacks on the board.
Off to go sailing!
Cheers Robbin
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