Interesting about the standing rigging differences; I am now curious if there was a failure of the backstay that might explain the big patch job there.
Curious which upgrades are not original - the heater is the main one, but most other things I thought were stock?
The swim ladder seemed fine from a dinghy, but I see your point... it'll help keep us fit!The electrical panel is certainly dated, and not a big fan of fuses, but if it's not all corroded on the back side, I'll leave it for now. I suspect once I get into the wiring, I won't be able to stop until it's all replaced, so I need to choose which rabbit holes I want to go down...
What year is your 29? Do you have any photos of the mast base with the mast off? Curious if dropping it either at the dock, or on the trailer in the parking lot is something we can manage. The owner's manual makes it sound easy, providing you have a topping lift, which this one doesn't.
Well, maybe I can see the photos better on my office monitor than I could on the iPad last night. Upgrades I noticed included Anchoring gear, roller furler, nice Newport heater, spreader lights, lazy jacks, dodger, solar charger, various rigging.
I see there is a full-batten sail. My sailmaker assured me that if I ordered full battens, with that type of sail track, little tears would develop around the luff end of each batten. So I'm curious whether there is any sign of that actually happening?
WAIT, wait, wait. Surely that is not a PVC elbow on the head intake through-hull that we see in pic 27? And surely it is not located between the through-hull and the valve? Because that would be a boat-sinker thingy right there...
BTW: If you drop the ladder to a good depth for swimmers to board, right there on the centerline, it will touch the tip of the rudder. Don't ask me how I know.
Mine is a 71. It's hull #134, and Shandy appears to be hull #505, so a bit down the line.
That page in the manual is for masts mounted on a tabernacle and with a special bridle to make the boom act as a gin-pole. That boat does not have a tabernacle, just a standard fixed shoe. Mine is under a foot of snow right now but I will try to clear it tomorrow unless snowmageddon is upon us again. You have to lift the mast straight up a couple inches to clear the shoe, and probably a little higher to deal with disconnecting the internal wiring. Last fall, we had to tap it with a mallet quite a bit to get it to let go and put quite a bit of upward force on it with the crane - a bit of corrosion happened.
I'm not familiar with that muffler, but it looks like they've mounted it high up under the deck in the same fashion as the A4 standpipe configuration. Which does not suffer from the siphon effect because it forms its own vented loop. Maybe something similar is going on?