Re: Shore Power/keel

Steve Allman (sjallman@juno.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 21:57:18 -0500


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Eric brings up a good point. How do you get the daggerboard out of a
P-19? I'm assuming that you have to remove fiberglass collar and somehow
get the boat high enough to allow clearance to drop it through the
bottom, perhaps using the old fashioned garage service pits.

Steve (Sparky)

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:26:19 -0800 "Eric Johnson" <eric@theftnet.net>
writes:
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
> http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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>> What have you done/plan to do about the zinc covered keel and the
>copper
>> covered bottom (paint)?
>
>Do we even need to worry about galvanic corrosion if our simple shore
>power
>systems are in no way connected to these parts? I have been thinking
>of
>adding a small zinc to my ungalvanized keel just in case... but my
>rusty old
>keel definitely needs work. I haven't decided if I'm going to be bold
>enough
>to try to remove it and have it galvanized or just refinish it
>in-situ. I
>can get to the entire keel one way or another from within the cabin or
>underneath, but it sure would be easier to work on out of the boat.
>
>

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