Hey R. Gordon,
That looks like my mast base too. But it looks like yours has been removed and not put back on all the way. On mine the line between the mast and base is even all the way around and it is sealed with silicon (or something like that). My mast is water tight too. All fittings on it are sealed, I think this is a safety factor so if you turn over the mast doesn't fill up with water. you may want to remove the base and seal it tight, in your second photo is looks like there is something there that use to seal it.
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Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 12:20 AM
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Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 09:12 PM
Hey Matt, ya the mast needs work. Last weekend we had sweet whitecaps on the lake and I had the wonderful opportunity to see how NOT sealed my mast is. lol
Needless to say it took a couple jet skiers to help right the sucker w/ half the mast full of water.
Re your jib track, I have a few guesses as to how its suppose to work but thats all, hopefully someone more experienced can chime in. My Solcat is set up the same way except there is no jam cleat.
As far as the crack - yep i'd repair it as soon as possible. Even though there is much more boat taking the pull of the shrouds, every bit helps and I wouldnt want to risk it.
PS - great pics! Ive not seen a green solcat! :)
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Posted: Aug 21, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Regarding the jib block location you can set it for the conditions of the day either inboard for hi wind day or outboard for light wind or you can find a happy medium set it and enjoy the sailing. You can set up the jib blocks to be more adjustable when you are sailing but I have found I didn?t need to make many adjustments once on the water.
As far as the crack in the hull goes it is not a structural issue as the bridal tang should take all the loading, I would take the tang off and try to bend it back slightly oh so gently so it does not touch the rails when you are fully rigged, maybe squeeze a little epoxy or good water proof glue into the crack in the fiberglass and clamp it until it dries and then bolt the tang back on that way you don?t mess up the green paint/gelcoat so much. I have had a few solcat and it seems that they all have had the rails cracked. I still love mine. Great boats.
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Posted: Aug 22, 2009 - 06:20 PM
I have a similar setup on my H16, a bungee/shock cord is attached to both the jib blocks with some tension, connecting them together, sheet line is attached to outside of jib block, runs through cheek block, pulling on line moves jib-block out for down-wind sailing, release line and bungee tension pulls block in to original position. You just have to work out how you want to cleat line off to hold block. I can't post a pic because I don't know how the frack to do that.
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Posted: Aug 22, 2009 - 08:07 PM
The shock cord was attatched to the peg that locks the block to one place, I didn't think this was good because of the possibility of bending the post. That jib can put a lot of pressure on the block. I'm thinking of an alternate method of attatchment.
In regards to posting photos it took a while, the directions didn't seem that clear. I don't think I can explain it because I'm not really sure how I did it. You hae to go to the gallery and then the folder, I think it was labled beachcat people and start a folder for yourself there and fiddle with it to get your photos in. I had two windows opened one for the photo gallery and one for here. When you get your photos put in to the gallery open one up right click on it and go to properties. You will get another menue that has a bunch of stuff, one thing being the url for the photo, high light this and copy it. Next go to the reply window and clcik on image; this will give you a [img][img] click and paste between these two img thingies. Preview it to see if it works.
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Posted: Aug 22, 2009 - 08:45 PM
How to post a picture. I upload mine to the beachcats photo album then follow the following directions.
http://www.thebeachcats.c…iewtopic-topic-1963.html
