Thanks Dan I had the yard use a boat lift to get the boat on stands. All this was done at a boat yard. I borrowed an engine lift to get it in the truck and suspended for fairing and painting after soda blasting the board. Coating with barrier coat was immediate after the blasting. The cb is very heavy and dangerous (300 lbs or more) so be careful with it and you if you are dealing with it! Cheers Robbin Sent from Robbin's phone

On Nov 13, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Dan Farrell <msog@danf.us> wrote:

Beautiful work, Robbin. Wish my CB looked that good!

So, if I follow these pictures correctly, you simply jacked the boat up with boat stands to get the keel far enough off the ground so the centerboard could be dropped out? I've seen the same thing done on 17s but thought maybe the 23 was too big for a technique like that.

Seeing the CB in the back of the truck puts it in perspective. The cherry picker seems like a very good idea.

Robbin Roddewig <robbin.roddewig@verizon.net> wrote:

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Thanks Josh,

I did locate the share permission and in fact it was not publicly sharing. It gave me this link to use for sharing https://goo.gl/photos/7N9NSiPM5nmTC4Z67

It appears to work. The captions that I had for each photo are viewable if you click on the picture and look at the right of the web page. Without these comments it is hard to tell the sequence of what I did to get the stuck board out. Do note that based on what Sean Mulligan suggested I glassed the joint at the bottom of the keel as Sean (who did have to replace rusting ballast) had determined that this joint was the most likely place that the water got into the keel.

There is lots of fun stuff documented here like barrier coating after stripping years of paint off the hull, redoing the hull to deck joint (I have now done both sides) and repairing the interior the rotted from the leak on the port side (the previous owner had covered all this black rot with a map pocket that I did not remove for years, nice job PO!). The interior rebuild is back in full swing this fall as I worked on that yesterday. Other projects on here are the recore of the cabin top and reestablishing the non skid with Kiwi grip. Lots of work in six years!

Please let me know if this works or not. And please ping me if you want some ideas on the stuck board. I think it more likely that like my board you simply have rust scale that will not let the board move. It had mine absolutely frozen and I was using big (and little) sledge hammers to try and move it. And it still moved fractions of an inch at a time I hit it down after I got the rod through it that I could beat on. I also worked a regular hand saw up along each side to try and scrape