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by andygc
Tue Nov 29, 2016 6:53 am
Forum: Rigging and Sails
Topic: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16397

Re: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed

Mike, before you start scanning, check this thread uk freedom 35 owners manual. Yours might be a duplicate.
by andygc
Tue Nov 29, 2016 6:44 am
Forum: Engines and Mechanical Systems
Topic: F28/30 CK centerboard/centreboard tackle
Replies: 2
Views: 3912

Re: F28/30 CK centerboard/centreboard tackle

Thank you for the pictures - yes, I have taken a block like that off my centreboard! It had seized solid. The replacement, yet to go in, is a Selden 80mm plain bearing block, which should be up to the job.
by andygc
Wed Nov 23, 2016 6:43 pm
Forum: Rigging and Sails
Topic: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16397

Re: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed

Gerald
Thank you. I think I'll follow that advice.
Andy
by andygc
Tue Nov 15, 2016 4:36 pm
Forum: Rigging and Sails
Topic: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16397

Re: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed

Thanks for that. I see that you drop the forward end of the boom. That doesn't tie in with the description of reefing in the various documents that I downloaded from the Manuals & Documentation area, or with the diagram in the Freedom 30 owner's guide. That pulls down a fold of sail parallel to the ...
by andygc
Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:41 am
Forum: Rigging and Sails
Topic: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16397

Re: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed

Thank you, Carl, but that only brings down the clew reefing cringles. That arrangement is the one given in the document for the UK built 30 available in the forum's documents section (Nausikaa original rigging schedule - Freedom 30 ck.pdf). There's also the reefing points on the luff, so it's a two-...
by andygc
Thu Nov 10, 2016 2:23 am
Forum: Engines and Mechanical Systems
Topic: F28/30 CK centerboard/centreboard tackle
Replies: 2
Views: 3912

F28/30 CK centerboard/centreboard tackle

Good morning all After successfully removing the centreboard of my F30 CK* I'm now looking at repairing the lifting tackle. The fixed blocks are straightforward - I need one new sheave with a pivot bush, and, after much soaking in diesel and the application of not such a big hammer to the pin, an ol...
by andygc
Thu Nov 10, 2016 2:09 am
Forum: Rigging and Sails
Topic: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed
Replies: 18
Views: 16397

Re: F30 Cat/Ketch Reefing Diagram Needed

Good morning, all. I now own that boat, and Freddie never did find out how to reef it. I have downloaded the F28/30 CK documents from the library here, and know that he didn't work out how to rig the luff reefing line. But I am curious about references in old magazine articles to Hoyt's "ingenious" ...
by andygc
Sun Oct 09, 2016 12:59 pm
Forum: Electrical and Electronics
Topic: zinc stink
Replies: 3
Views: 5032

Re: zinc stink

This isn't a Freedom problem, it's an any boat problem. Do you have shore power? If yes, do you have a galvanic isolator? If no you will eat anodes because of stray electrical currents. Your boat needs to be electrically isolated from the mains supply earth connection - but not by disconnecting it! ...
by andygc
Sat Sep 24, 2016 6:48 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: adventures in plywood
Replies: 9
Views: 8321

Re: adventures in plywood

Cutting saw kerfs in the back of sheet material like plywood is a well-established technique for bending it. The closer the kerfs are to each other, the smoother the curve and the smaller the radius you can achieve. The kerfs must be all the same depth (not quite reaching the face veneer), equally s...
by andygc
Wed Sep 14, 2016 1:24 am
Forum: Rigging and Sails
Topic: Freedom 28/30 CK wishbones
Replies: 0
Views: 2314

Freedom 28/30 CK wishbones

I'm in the middle of buying I have bought a 1980 Freedom 30 CK (centreboard version). The first owner (who sailed long distances) replaced the aluminium wishbones with ones made from what appears to be steel, and although the boat sailed well when I went out for a trial sail, I don't much fancy hea...