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- 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.
- Tue Nov 29, 2016 6:44 am
- Forum: Engines and Mechanical Systems
- Topic: F28/30 CK centerboard/centreboard tackle
- Replies: 2
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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.
- 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
Thank you. I think I'll follow that advice.
Andy
- 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 ...
- 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-...
- 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...
- 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" ...
- 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! ...
- 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...
- Wed Sep 14, 2016 1:24 am
- Forum: Rigging and Sails
- Topic: Freedom 28/30 CK wishbones
- Replies: 0
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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...