The gooseneck on my WWP19 #626 (1990) is held on with pop
rivets. Others have replaced their's with bolts and nuts.
Ted
Bill Blohm wrote:
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> Had my P-19 out for the first time last weekend. In the process
> of rigging it, I handed out the boom, only to discover that the
> gooseneck was missing. We went through that boat thoroughly, and
> all we found was a bent nail rusted in half. I found a cotter
> pin that was almost exactly the same diameter as the hole in the
> shaft of the gooseneck. After inserting the gooseneck shaft into
> the hole in the end of the boom, I rotated it until I could see
> the hole in the gooseneck shaft through the hole in the boom.
> I dropped the cotter pin into that hole and rotated the gooseneck
> around until the split end of the cotter pin was visible in the
> hole in the boom. With a large nail, I split the ends apart so
> the cotter couldn't drop out.
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> We went sailing. Good winds, 6+ mph in the boat. Some heeling,
> a couple poundings, heaved to to yell with the regatta boat, spray
> over the bow. Rigged the main sheet wrong and lost it through the
> guide/jam by the tiller, out the starboard block, but managed to
> grab it 3" above the end as it went flying to try to get through
> the block on the boom before I could catch it. Beat it! Hah! All
> the regatta boats would sail in below the docks, heave to, drop
> sails, and motor in to the docks. Not me. I sailed out from the
> dock, I sailed back to the dock. Not much choice, anyway. The
> motor was making a funny sound, so I left it home this time. All
> in all, the four of us had a blast, although I was a bit tense
> because it was the first time I'd had her out in this kind of wind.
> Plus, I was worried about heeling too far in the P-19 with it's
> hard chines. I didn't have my compass with the heel meter installed
> yet, so no idea how far over we went, but definitely not as far
> over as those round-hulls were doing!
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> Anyway, anyone know what's supposed to hold that gooseneck in
> place? It can't be a bent nail. I figure the cotter pin's got
> to be better than that. Plus, it's a near exact fit to the hole
> diameter. This cotter pin is also just about 3/4 thelength of the
> inside diameter of the boom.
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> Bill B.
> P-19 #454, "Dream Catcher"
> Nampa, ID