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Try South Shore Yachts, they are listed in the contacts section of the web site. I would suggest you call them rather than email, they respond quickly to phone calls but tens to be slow in returning email contacts. You will likely find that they stock all of the different stantion bases that C&C used over the yrears.
Steve Reid
Still Knot Working Mk5 Sail #75
Conrad:
Be very carefull how much tension you put on that Baby Stay! It's not intended to create Mast Bend. Take a good look below deck, you will notice that the Chain Plate is only attached to the bulkhead and that there is not a lot of reinforcing around it. Look at the way the main Chain Plates are installed in the boat and compare that to how the Baby Stay Chain Plate is attached. We don't attach the Baby Stay at all, unless we are beating into a large chop and the mast is doing a lot of pumping then we put it on with just enough tension to stop the mast from pumping.
There have been a lot of MkV's that have suffered leakage arounf the Baby Stay chain plate and subsequant water damage to the forward buklhead as a result of that leakage, all caused by over tensioning the baby stay.
Hope that helps.
Steve
MkV #75 Still Knot Working
Robert:
You have to remember that PHRF is a Rating System, used to equate boats so that they can compeat against each other on a level palying field. At least that's the principal of the whole thing. Your rating on Lake Winnipeg, Lake of the Woods at 177 may or may not be a good deal depending on what other boats you are racing against and what their rating is.
In comparrison to PHRF-LO a rating of 177 for a C&C 27 MkV with a 155% Genoa is a fast rating and would be tough to sail to on Lake Ontario. But it all depends on what the other boats you race against rate at. If for example a 27Mk3 was rating at 186 or 189 then your rating at 177 might be in line. Here on Lake Ontario the MkV's are rating at 180 and the Mk3-4's at 192 without penalties or credits.
Steve Mark V Still Knot Working
Your rating of 192 on Lake Michigan is a gift compared to PHRF-LO. We are stuck at 180 Spinn as Jim notes. There are very few Mark V's activly racing on Lake Ontario, in fact there are very few boats period in the 180 range to compare to so it's very difficult to push for a rating change. Are there any C&C 27 Mark 3's or 4's racing on Lake Mich. and if so what do they rate Spinn. That would give us a good gauge to go by over here. The Mark 3/4's here rate right around 192 and it's almost impossible to beat them in light wind <img src="emoticons/icon_frown.gif">less than 10kts.) which is the prevailing wind around here. I'd love to get some data from other areas to compare to.
Steve
Still Knot Working Sail #75
Jim:
You know the Still Knot Working will be there. Who else is coming out. It would shure be nice to have some real good head on head action.
Steve
My 85 Mark V also has excessive play in the rubber. The through bolt from the tiller to the rudder is tight and there isn't signifigent slop there. The problem seems to be in the gougeons and the pins. I haven't had time and don't really want to remove the rudder while the boat is in the water, so I'm putting up with it for now. My plan is to have a really good look at the diameter of the rudder pins and the diameter of the hole in the gougeons. It may be necessary to have larger diameter rudder pins turned to fit more snuggly in the gougeons. I have heard of some Mark V that have had the rudder hinge system fail, so I'm not wild about messing around too much with the system and if I do anything it will be to make it beefier.
If anyone else has any solutions or experiance in this area I'd welcome your input.
Steve "Still Knot Working"
And for the Mark V's, even though we don't officially have a fleet you can register in PHRF and they will put us in a Level fleet I'm in let's see if we can get 3 or 4 more so that we can at least get in some racing.
Still Kont Working
Steve
The original Easylock cluthces on Still Knot Working (it no longer Heatwave Jim) were replaced with the Spinnlock XAS and they work great. I also had the same model of Spinnlocks on the old boat and had no real problems with them either. There are a couple of basic things you need to understand about any kind of rope clutch though. It's never a good idea to release a fully loaded clutch, it's best to tale up the load on a winch and then release the clutch, this will greatly extend the life of the cams and your lines as well. I have found that if you are using Spectra or any of the modern low stretch lines that the covers are very hard and will wear the cams, so you need to check the cams several times during the season and replace as necessary. We find that on really high load haylards (Genoa in particular) that it is best to open the cam as you are taking up the haylard, set the tension you want and then close the clutch. This does two things; first it eliminates the cover milking along the core and bunching up. Second it keeps the clutch free of friction and allows it to bight better into the cover at the point you want it to hold.
The cams are fairly easy to replace in the XAS and can be done in about 15 minutes to 1/2 and hour depending on whether you are replacing all of the cams or just one.
I'd advise caution about how you go about relocating new holes in the cabin top, your welcome to come over and have a look at Still Knot Working. If I were you I'd fill the old holes with epoxy to seal them and retain strength, then I'd drill new holes for the new clutches. Drill the holes oversize, fill with epoxy and redrill to the correct size for the fasteners you are going to use. Remember that the fasteners are going to be in shear not tension so you don't necessarily need a lot of back up under the dech.
Steve
The LP (Longest Perpendicular) of a sail is equal to the "J" dimension of that boat expressed in percentage of the "J" dimension (J = the distance from the intersection of the forestay at the deck to the intersection of the front of the mast and the deck) on the Mark V the designed J is 10.08 ft., therefore a 155 LP is 10.08 x 150% = 15.12 ft. Spinnaker max girth is also a percentage of J, usually 180% or in the case of PHRF-LO 183%, so that would make the max girth of a Mark V on Lake Ontario 10.08 x 183% = 18.4464 (18.45) ft. it's measured by folding the Spinnaker in half verticaly and measuring to find the widest point and then multiplying that dimension by 2. The J dimension is also used to determine the length of the Spinnaker Pole 100% of J.
Steve
So if John's in, all we need are 3 more V's and we have a fleet, there have to 3 more out there just let us know who you are.
Steve
Rick
The Mark V's have a table that folds up on the forward bulkhead and there is no receptacle on the floor.
Steve
john:I'm not sure what you mean by you can only do half of Friday, but if that means you can also do the Sat and Sunday you will only likely miss one race, maybe 2 out of a possible 9 so you's still be in the running.
How about all the rest of the Mark V's out there? This is a great regatta, lots of good level racing and the parties last year were really great, come on this is an event not to miss.
Steve
Who is game for getting a fleet together for the NOOD Regatta June 24 - 26. If we can get six boats together we will have Fleet status. So come on lets see who's interested, it's a great Regatta and some fantastic parties. Why not join the fun? Still Knot Working is looking forward to it so we just need 5 more.<IMG src="http://www.cc27association.com/f3/toast/emoticons/icon_wink.gif" border=0>
Steve