I will never part with Pelican regardless of how she treats me. . I have worked on her center board, ground it down, replaced her pennant, reinforced her pin hole. What I should have done was replace her steel core center board with a lead core center board. This would have prevented the major operation that you can see on the following link http://picasaweb.google.com/jascopacific/M15KeelRepair If your CB is steel do yourself a favor order a new one from Bob. Captain James A Sadler skipper sailing vessel Pelicam M-15 On 10/15/07, Norm <nbundek@earthlink.net> wrote:

Rich,

I changed my 1982 M15's center board pennant and removed the pin. I'm glad I did since the pin had rusted away in spots and the center board had a crack in it by the pin hole. I also found the center board had several other cracks and some swelling. I fixed the cracks, ground down the swollen area and put a new pin in.

As long as I was doing the pennant, it was worth my time to have an almost new center board in the proper shape.

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