Re: WINDVANE FOR 15

oldbandito@citlink.net
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 07:21:39 -0700


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> I was replacing the pins attaching my shrouds to the chainplates
> today...the ones that came in the rig were too long. I took the first one
> loose and forgot about how two stays will not hold the mast upright...and
> ...CRASH! the mast fell. no harm to the mast or the dock or anyone but the
> plastic on my cute little red windvane busted off. What do y'all recommend
> as far as replacment? can you just buy the plastic(???) who's got these
> things and which one is the one that fits on my mast? my boat is a 1988
> hms potter 15. the vane is very simple: a long skinny
> bicycle-spoke-looking thing that is threaded on the bottom with the cute
> red plastic thing attached on the top to a metal cross spoke-thing. and it
> is held on by being threaded thru two springy metal pieces...the threads
> on the spoke hold it from coming out.
>

Replacements for those cute red plastic thingies are available from
West Marine . . . . I go through them a lot, the birds like to sit on
them, and when the bird happens to be an owl, then the cute red
plastic thingies take quite a beating.

Dik Richardson
'Hamada' HMS 18 #11
'Vas Kora' Islander 33 #363
'Manana ' Newporter 40 Ketch #87
Hidden Harbor Marina, Rio Vista, CA