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Is your mizzen sheet not on a track? How would you move the car on the track with a tiller in the way?

On my Fairways Marine F30 the hull number is on the outside of the transom - top left. It's also on the inside of the transom just above the opening for the steering drag link - but I don't know how that compares with the arrangement in the F40. The lettering is small and could easily have been fill...

From the De Valk Yacht Brokers website https://www.devalk.nl/en/yachtbrokerage/38357/FREEDOM-40-Centreboard.html (found by Googling "Freedom 40 yacht") GRP sailingyacht Freedom 40 Cat-Ketch Centreboard, "Chasseur", built in 1978 by Tilloston-Pearson USA, dim.: 12.19 (lwl 10.66) x 3.68 x 1.00 / 2.74 ...

A galley drain with no seacock? That's a bit unusual.

I thought again about this and just realised what phildowney meant by adding breaking loads together. Two blocks together can accept a total load of twice the load of one block alone. Sorry about that. :oops: However,it's still true that the safe working load of all parts of the tackle is way above ...

This is the thread http://www.freedomyachts.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=10028 and this is the post hi when i bought kusi the surveyor recommended i checked the lifting gear since he couldn't check it as part of the survey. when i did i found that the double and becket block on the centreboard was badly...

€75? That's a bargain! The Selden PBB80 double with becket is around £125 now. And others are much more. Fortunately this sort of gear does not need or want ball-bearing blocks. The halyard knot works well for Dyneema - unless the end is cut very short - it's not easy to tie the knot tight, so there...

Fisherman's hitch/anchor hitch http://www.animatedknots.com/anchor/index.php Halyard hitch/halyard knot http://www.animatedknots.com/halyard/index.php Should work with modern ropes, but don't cut the tail very short. It's very widely used as a way of attaching halyards to shackles, avoiding the stif...

His comment about the long bowline is pertinent; it prevented me from raising the board fully on my F33/35. I would have preferred a fisherman's bend, but it was too bulky at the becket on the block, so the weaker bowline has to suffice. Have you thought of using a halyard knot - it works for me. h...

I've just been experimenting with the rigging of the plate uphaul on my F30 - it's the same layout as the F33/35. Its technical name is a "winding tackle". I've ended up slightly different from Gerald's arrangement - for a start, I don't have room for that long bowline onto the becket of the double ...