You could, that approach would work well if your just substituting the original plain blocks for the class legal Harken blocks on a relatively new boom. This repair is usually necessary when corrosion has already started. The problem is, the corrosion makes the hole larger, and while pop rivets expand, you'll have the fastener working in hte hole and enlarging it further.
Absolutely loved watching this! So very well filmed with the sailors eye for showing these beautiful old gals at their best. The old gaffer's warm my heart, my first boat i built as a young teen was a 16' Whitehall with a gaff rig. The last 25 years on a Chuck Paine design Leigh 30 here in the Pacific NW.
I'm planning more videos of this series - the boats meet on Thursday evenings. My channel has lots of onboard videos of Laser racing. I've put up a few vids of junior sailors in Opti's as well.
Another way to attach the draw thread to the screw is to use a hot glue gun to put a dab of glue on the end of the screw to stick on the end of the draw thread. TIP, wait about 30 seconds for the hot glue to cure before attempting to draw through the thread.
I had to do this on my own 20 year old boom. I split the nuts with a hacksaw and replaced the hardware. I once tried threading bolts through an aluminum rod, but I couldn't snake both bolts through the holes.
9:32 Oh no! You didn't replace that cracked fairlead? Or is it just a gigantic mold seam? Otherwise, nice video! This always sounded like an impossibly fiddly fix, but it looks fairly straight forward with the right technique. Sure would be nice if the builders _consistently_ used a corrosion barrier like Lanocote where stainless and Al touch...
No problem here- it's just a mold seam. On my own boat, I replaced the plastic fairlead with the alloy one that's designed to replace the traveler fairleads - maybe overkill but it will outlast me!
@@laserd8 I thought about doing that when I rebuilt my boom too, but the plastic fairleads have a wider filet radius, and the line slides around them better. As a fresh water sailor, I just used stainless rivets with Lanocote. 12 years later it's holding up fine.
An acid brush is a small, short-bristled brush with a metal handle used to put soldering flux onto copper pipe. You can find them in home center and hardware stores at the plumbing supplies aisle. They're inexpensive and disposable.
Great tutorial Bob ! Thank you for sharing it I assume that a boom (or a mast/gooseneck) so repaired can be used for practice and training only (or for fun :-) In other words: does this repair meet the "one design" Laser Class Rules? Can a boom with screws in place of rivets be used in an official race? Thank yo again
No worries here - ILCA By Law 1 part 3 rule 26 allows this repair without disqualifying the boat. The purpose of the rules is to keep the boats equal - they encourage maintenance to keep boats in the fleet, as long as the fix doesn't change the original function. Compared to other classes, the Laser class discourages "competition by checkbook" - it would run counter to the spirit of the rules to require racers to replace spars in their entirety when they can be economically fixed. BTW, this technique can also be used to upgrade the older style boom blocks to the newer style (class legal) ball-bearing blocks.
I wish I had footage! Steve Wittman was a good friend of my Dad - Witt last raced in formula Vee in 1977 (Sturgis, KY.) We didn't have video cameras then, & I haven't seen any film footage of his V-Witt - just stills. Brian Dempsey raced a V-Witt called Chasin Rainbows before he built his Sonerai, but in the '70s, we didn't get much archival footage...alas!
4:20 There's a wrong understanding of Proper Course. Correct definition is following: "A course a boat would sail to finish as soon as possible in the absence of the other boats referred to in the rule using the term." Look: REFERRED TO in the rule USING the term P.C.! This does not assume any boat absence. Good luck!
I'm not sure which part of the vid you're referring to, but I'll try. I'm much less knowlegeable than Eric. In this situation, if leeward port falls off, he has to give windward port enough room to get by the starboard tack boat also. If leeward port hails "room to tack", then he must tack or he is called on a foul by windward port. If windward port hails "you tack" WP must keep clear, but can do whatever he wants to accomplish it. LP cannot luff WP into a right of way boat (obstruction).
I always kind of laugh when it happens, it's kind of exciting in a way (the wake not the close speeding boat). Most powerboaters have never sailed so they don't understand, I understand that.
Nice airplane, incredible scenery. Looks a lot like John Monnett's original Sonerai II, I got a ride in it at the Oshkosh EAA convention back in the "70's. That bird had just a 1700 cc, but it still performed.
Is that the plane at airport-data(dot)com/aircraft/N6439T(dot)html? Nice bird. Unfortunately, we lost Rick in a crash in his F/V during a race in Iowa in the late 90's. My Dad flew a couple of F1's as well.
Hi, my dad was #26 in the formula 1 (he just sold his last ultralight last year),.. we were timing judges where Charlie tried to stretch his altitude back to the tarmac here in TX. I have a 35mm still taken at the moment of 'touchdown'....glad he walked away to race again!!! Rick flew my dad's plane for a race or two in Albuquerque one year...
@robm425 Nope, its Geoff Loffredo. He finished 2nd overall. The other winners were Ryan Schmitz, 1st place, David Trinder, 3rd place, me in 4th, and John McGrane in 5th. Hey Rob, you should join us next winter!
@gman1953 Thanks! I stand corrected. I got the info from a flyer, I just thought the Cavalry was on foot this time, like Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders (in a later war, of course!)
Great job! You did very well documenting our weekend at the Grange. Thanks from the 67th NY for visiting and taking the time to make & post this video. We'll be back next September should you want to film a sequel.
We had a club even today Under 19's open to all hadicaps and skill levels The see breeze kicked in near the end of the first race. By the time of the second race, the safety boats where swamped with capsized toppers. It was so bad, they just gave up getting the kids back into the boats to sail home, so they were just hauling them out of the water and leaving boats to was about while they sorted the kids Then they had to tow 20+ toppers back into the slipway. FUN FUN day. 7th out of 52
