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E27 Roxanne
Good Morning,
I hope this beautiful morning finds you all well. Here are a few questions I hope you can help with
1. How much play should I have on my back stay, perhaps in inches? My jib will sometime do a kind of rhythmic pumping. Is that purely an issue of car adjustment or would a loose back stay allow the forestay to slack and thus the jib halyard to slack as well?
2. Roxanne suffers from wire bundle in mast syndrome which creates the sound of a slack halyard at anchor. Before I make an attempt at securing it can anyone recommend a good method?
3. The original information plate (with the helmet logo, alas) was replaced during a refit in 2003. Is anyone familiar with the name J. Baldwin?
4. After several searches my Ericson serial number has not jumped out at me. Roxanne has a cut away stern with a heavy door that slides into place. Below that a motor mount for a Yamaha 25 may be covering the SN. The VIN on the plate bears no resemblance to....um...anything I can fathom. The two locations of the SN are the stern and the interior motor mount, is this correct?
5. I have a Whale secondary hand bilge pump. Any suggestions on where I should mount it.
6. The head and galley pump handles leak and need replaced. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced and easily installed foot pump system?
7. How would one go about inspecting the state of the rudder tiller system. There are no issues but it seems to be the case for most vessels that the rudder is fine until it isn't. I imagine there isn't much that can be inspected short of a haul out.
8. The out board gear and throttle cables recently failed gloriously right after shoving off the dock. Standing there, while the wind blew me towards my neighbors, inspiration had me unfurl the jib which gave me enough way to escape the vicinity and miss the stern of the last vessel in the line by one foot. Two men in a powerboat were mercifully on hand and towed me with enough speed that I was able to coast between the docks and back into my slip. I purchased a set of universal cables, opened every thing, installed the 14ft lines and buttoned her up. Now it all works perfectly. No questions to ask, just wanted to report how disconcertingly easy it was. The new parts performed well on last weekends Emerald bay excursion (#10 to the island since getting Roxanne!).
Any help on the above is appreciated.
I hope this beautiful morning finds you all well. Here are a few questions I hope you can help with
1. How much play should I have on my back stay, perhaps in inches? My jib will sometime do a kind of rhythmic pumping. Is that purely an issue of car adjustment or would a loose back stay allow the forestay to slack and thus the jib halyard to slack as well?
2. Roxanne suffers from wire bundle in mast syndrome which creates the sound of a slack halyard at anchor. Before I make an attempt at securing it can anyone recommend a good method?
3. The original information plate (with the helmet logo, alas) was replaced during a refit in 2003. Is anyone familiar with the name J. Baldwin?
4. After several searches my Ericson serial number has not jumped out at me. Roxanne has a cut away stern with a heavy door that slides into place. Below that a motor mount for a Yamaha 25 may be covering the SN. The VIN on the plate bears no resemblance to....um...anything I can fathom. The two locations of the SN are the stern and the interior motor mount, is this correct?
5. I have a Whale secondary hand bilge pump. Any suggestions on where I should mount it.
6. The head and galley pump handles leak and need replaced. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced and easily installed foot pump system?
7. How would one go about inspecting the state of the rudder tiller system. There are no issues but it seems to be the case for most vessels that the rudder is fine until it isn't. I imagine there isn't much that can be inspected short of a haul out.
8. The out board gear and throttle cables recently failed gloriously right after shoving off the dock. Standing there, while the wind blew me towards my neighbors, inspiration had me unfurl the jib which gave me enough way to escape the vicinity and miss the stern of the last vessel in the line by one foot. Two men in a powerboat were mercifully on hand and towed me with enough speed that I was able to coast between the docks and back into my slip. I purchased a set of universal cables, opened every thing, installed the 14ft lines and buttoned her up. Now it all works perfectly. No questions to ask, just wanted to report how disconcertingly easy it was. The new parts performed well on last weekends Emerald bay excursion (#10 to the island since getting Roxanne!).
Any help on the above is appreciated.