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It works off of shore power. I haven’t looked at the boat since digging into this so I’ve been trying to find diagrams of how shore power even works. I assume there has to be some sort of transformer as I know some shore power systems are higher than 120v - but don’t recall seeing anything for...

Next job is learning about my electrical system, as my battery died and I bought a new AGM. Realizing old battery was just a car battery and pretty sure the charger that's plugged into the 120 outlet in my starboard lazarette is also a car charger... quite concerning from all that I've been...

If I install forestay before back stay, then I can only get one half of the backstay on (it's one stay, that splits into a Y at the bottom with a line and blocks to adjust tension). I'm about two inches off. The toggle fixed everything, but oddly enough I feel like when I tension my backstay the...

That all makes sense. I think in that case I will probably just stick to rings and inspect them before sailing. I may even have some rigging tape kicking around to neaten it all up!

How small are you talking? I feel like for sailing folks 25' quite small :ROFLMAO:

Hey @crankcall quick one for you! I swapped all the cotter pins on my forestay with split rings, and split rings are were all over the standing rigging on the boat from the day we got it (shrouds, backstay, forestay). From what I've read everyone seems to strongly urge cotter pins over split...

I just can’t get it fastened to the boat. I need another inch of length. Not going to pull the entire thing apart so just need a fitting at the bottom that is about an inch longer to get it attached

So unfortunately forestay is off by an inch. Just can’t quite get it on. Looks like I need to sort out an extension plate or find a longer toggle. Did the math and being one inch off is an error of roughly 0.27% over the entire length. So close, yet so so so far..

Mast crane is definitely a little more complicated / sketchy, but we double up on a halyard as well just in case. Not sure if my mast is designed to handle the weight of a person on it, I assume it deals with greater forces on the water but some people told me not to risk it so I haven’t tried 😬...

Good to have further confirmation that Tack Horns are useless - thank god! Just going to take a dremel to it on Sunday if I have time I think. Currently I actually just tie a bowline on my halyards. Used to have a shackle on the main with one of those spring releases, and it came off once and...

Just installed the rigging yesterday! Measuring seemed to be almost too easy so hopefully I did it all right. Took a full day between assembling furler, prepping mast, and getting it up in the crane and on the boat. Weather was freezing so that really slowed things down. \ Only issue I ran into...

Spoke to the Rigging Shoppe and they also confirmed what you said re included restrainer - thanks for bringing it to my attention! Didn't realize Harken doesn't even provide wire or connector, wow... They told to screw in the restrainer as opposed to rivet so I will have to find a Tap and Dye...

I'll definitely get in touch once we are in sailing condition and planning trips - would be cool to come spend a weekend at Bronte and hang out! Interesting your engine locks in forward - I guess different models / manufacturers do different things.

Nice! I'm out at QCYC on the Toronto Islands. Hoping to do more trips this year, so I'd definitely like to swing by Bronte sometime :) I wonder if we organize a reciprocal cruise with your club - I should check our schedule. Our furler stopped working last year so it was time for new (Went for...

Oh cool! What harbor are you at? We briefly thought about doing transom hung, but then steering at low speeds would be a pain, and it would be less visually appealing. Inboard is nice when it works - and hopefully our fix holds up for a good long time :) I think if electric dropped down to...

The boat is a Kelt 7.6. It's a very unique engine layout for sure. Often there's a mount hung off the transom, but this is inside the cockpit and in front of the rudder. Unconventional, but makes accessing the motor and steering with it at low speed very handy. Also means it doesn't get swamped...

We don't remove the engine, we just throw it in reverse when its off so that it's locked down. From what I've read, many small outboards don't lock in forward gear so that if you run into something it just pops the motor up. Generally the prop force keeps it fully down in forward, but in Neutral...

It locks down when in reverse, otherwise it would pop up, but in forward (and I think neutral), it's unlocked. I am pretty sure its a safety feature in case you run into something, but it's not an issue I would run into on the sailboat. Sometimes if we move forward at a few knots, and I...

Good idea! Might try that next time we remove the ply (though hopefully that isn't for a good long while).

Quick aside as well - has anyone ever done a mod to their outboard to prevent it from going up? We have it right in front of the rudder and if you throw it into reverse when its slightly up, it will be unlocked and shoot back into the rudder. Only happened once, but I am thinking it would be...