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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Tiller shortening
- Replies: 1
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Tiller shortening
Thought I'd ask for people's thoughts before I did something irreversible. I wonder if there'd be any reason not to cut the tiller down by 5 or 6"? I find it an inconvenience as currently, and think even such a small reduction would make passing through the companionway much less awkward. There...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Boarding ladder options
- Replies: 3
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Re: Boarding ladder options
I'm still gestating this boarding ladder question. I think I'm inclined to install against an inboard plate (perhaps hardwood) to spread the load. I'm not sure tightness of the through bolts is very necessary; snugness should suffice so there won't be any significant compression. Notwithstanding Kei...
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 11:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Rubbing strake repair needed
- Replies: 1
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Rubbing strake repair needed
The rubbing strake on my 'new' Sabre has a fillet of (what looks like) wood on the underside, between the hull and the RS proper. It's falling out in a couple of areas. I'm probably going to PVA it as an interim measure but is there a better solution?
- Fri May 19, 2023 7:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Boarding ladder options
- Replies: 3
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Boarding ladder options
Having now agreed to buy a Sabre my mind has turned to making upgrades. It's not clear to me (looking at photos of Sabres with boarding ladders) what style of fixing (horizontally bolted through the transom, or looped over, so vertically) that people have preferred (as I'm only working off photos it...
- Fri May 12, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Skeg (soundness of)
- Replies: 4
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Re: Skeg (soundness of)
Thank you both for those thoughts. I didn't have any sense of there being movement at the joint and no osmosis visible. The boat I'm talking of has been out of the water for some time anyway so probably the only way to check for ingress would be to drill an exploratory hole toward the bottom ofthe s...
- Fri May 05, 2023 10:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Skeg (soundness of)
- Replies: 4
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Skeg (soundness of)
I've been thinking of trying to buy a Sabre. One I looked at recently seemed to have a surprising (to me) amount of lateral flex in the skeg - but I've nothing to compare it to. There were no cracks where the skeg meets the hull and the boat hadn't been recently anti-fouled. This is all a bit vague ...