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by brico
Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:51 pm
Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade
Topic: I just bought 1986 Freedom 36!!
Replies: 6
Views: 5658

Re: I just bought 1986 Freedom 36!!

I live in Vancouver BC and will keep the boat in Point Roberts where I moored my ex-Dufour 31 that i sold few weeks ago.
by brico
Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:35 pm
Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade
Topic: I just bought 1986 Freedom 36!!
Replies: 6
Views: 5658

I just bought 1986 Freedom 36!!

Hi,

I am now proud and very much excited owner of an 1986 Freedom 36. I guess I'll be asking many more questions in coming weeks and months.

Regards/Petar :D
by brico
Wed Mar 24, 2010 11:21 am
Forum: Engines and Mechanical Systems
Topic: Emergency steering on F36
Replies: 5
Views: 5173

Re: Emergency steering on F36

Bill,

Thank you. It is much appreciated.

regards/Petar
by brico
Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:10 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: F36 Fuel Tank plywood cover?
Replies: 1
Views: 2172

F36 Fuel Tank plywood cover?

Hi

Are your fuel tanks under the Starboard quarter berth covered with plywood which is also glassed in at the sides and impossible to remove unless it is cut out?
by brico
Tue Mar 23, 2010 10:49 pm
Forum: Engines and Mechanical Systems
Topic: Emergency steering on F36
Replies: 5
Views: 5173

Re: Emergency steering on F36

I've looked on the boat and could not see what you have described as emergency tiller. Would you be able to take a photograph and provide dimensions of your em'cy steering arrangement. I have located the hole into which it is attached on top of the rudder post/shaft.

regards/petar
by brico
Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:14 am
Forum: Engines and Mechanical Systems
Topic: Hoisting and lowering main sail??!!
Replies: 4
Views: 4142

Hoisting and lowering main sail??!!

Hi, I have done a full survey and mechanical inspection on 1986 Freedom 36 today. I have at same time taken the opportunity to raise the sails. Self tacking jib with Camberspar Sail arrangement was reasonably easy to hoist and lower down. I guess with little practice I'd be able to do it easily. Whe...
by brico
Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:58 am
Forum: Engines and Mechanical Systems
Topic: Emergency steering on F36
Replies: 5
Views: 5173

Emergency steering on F36

Hi,

i am about to buy a freedom 36 but could not see emergency steering arrangement on it. would anyone have a photo to share how does it look like and how do you deploy it.

best regards/Petar
by brico
Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:23 pm
Forum: Rigging and Sails
Topic: Mast Hairline Crack
Replies: 31
Views: 24515

Re: Mast Hairline Crack

Good day Rick, Your response is encouraging. I my self am looking at one Freedom 36 built in 1986 and only issue I could note with the mast are the cracks that run around the entire circumferrence of that reinforcement doubler where gooseneck is for boom attachment. Here are the the photographs I ha...