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Hi
great to hear Smoke will be racing again.
If you need go fast advice post here or email me and we'll help the best we can
JIm
Hi Alan
how long have you had Smoke? (known as the fastest MKV ever, by the way)
You have teak & holly on the floor.
The boats all came from the factory with a liner in the head compartment.
Did you add the floorboards?
On top of the liner? or to replace it?
jim
Did you have any problem with the platform flexing or loss of structural strength after you drilled those holes?
JIM
The head on a MKV sits on the liner on a little platform. The head is attached with 4 screws - not bolts, since there is no access to the underside of the platform.
My head is adrift - the screws no longer hold. Has any MKV had this problem and what did you do about it?
yes
get a midget for a crew so he she can climb in there
or a basketball player with really long arms - it is possible to reach from while lying on your back.
buy a kevlar cross cut sail from the sailemaker you like best and with the best service in your area.
say No to Dacron.
JIM
interesting.
does the support platform for the head stand up ok after adding the holes?
mu head is held down with screws, that are screwed to something under there, but the screws are loose, and I need to drill an access hole to replace the screws with bolts.
I've been woried about the strength of the platform if holes are drilled into the front of it.
Jim W
Distant Thunder
later models had a plastic hose running from somewhere under the liner...under the bulkhead door...and emerging and draining into the sump above the keel. My hull # 69 has this. I do not know if there is a way to retrofit....I hate the thought running a drill throuhgh there.
You will not go as fast with furling. It is harder to tension the forestay by tightening the backstay, so you will have more sag, and a fuller sail. In 10 - 14 knots that wiull really hurt. Also, the tack will be raised, so the sail will not sweep the deck as it shouyld, and you will lose sail area on the foot.
One altenative is to go with a hank-on sail. If you are sailing with the familily, if you just dump the halyard the sail will just fall to the deck.
Jim
Distant Thunder
I'm interested
email me: jcwenteATrogers.com
just replace the AT with @
JIM
The factory jib was 100%.
Jim
some MKVs have jib tracks on the cabin top. Smoke, the factory boat that was raced heavily in the 1980s had tracks on the cabin. Since you don't, sheeting on the side deck tracks seems to work well in our club.
A #3 is the only sail I have never purchased - the boat is just so fast in 20 knots it has never seemed worth it to me. Several MKVs in our club have changed the battens on the original factory jib to full length - it sure makes that 28 year old sail look better!
Jim
Distant Thunder, Hull #69
we race the boat - top two battens are full, bottom two regular.
when in doubt ask your sailmaker.
in light air playing the backstay can give quite amazing results- a slight tweek to backstay can give you half a knot.
In heavy air reefing it down hard in the puffs will help you de-power the main.
Distant Thunder
are you racing or cruising?
Your suggested set up is fine for cruising, or casual rascing.
For serious racing you need to run double-ended controls led forward to cheek blacks and cleats set just aft of the traveller - continual adjustment of the back stay is needed to get oprimal speed.
Jim W
Distant Thunder
south shore yachts win Niagara will have one
the good news is that the inner bolt holes are in solid glass. No chance of balsa rot.
So, as far as I am concerened - if they don't leak, don't bother.
Jim Wente
Distant Thunder
I have never had to use the 2nd reef
and for the new main I purchased 5 years ago I did not even have a 2nd reefing point installed
Jim
Distant Thunder
that 1" hole was in the cabin liner?
i.e. you fished from the panel to the liner on the top of the cabin at the 1" hole to the liner just under the mast (above the head)
?
best of luck and we hope everything is still floating where it should be on Monday!
any sailmaker or marine store - they are nothing special.
Jim W
Hi
I believe (but can`t prove it) that the factory led the wiring on top of the liner, then laid the deck on top. It is not in a channel and on my boat it can`t be pulled in either direction. I gained access by cutting a hole in the liner under the fitting that leads through the deck. You MAY be able to fish a wire between the liner at the mast (after cutting that hole in the liner) and the deck down to the port side of the boat, then run the new wires along the lip in the liner at the side of the boat. GOOD LUCK!
Jim W
Still Knot Working won the North American Championship sailed at Etobicoke Yacht Club on Aug 23,24, 2008.
Steve won with five straight bullets in light airs.
Congratulations Steve !
Distant Thunder
The standard mast is not tapered, but the section bends easily with lots of backstay. If the boat does not have an adjustable backstay rig it is easily added.- it will be fine for racing