I purchased a very well used 240 last fall and am trying to get it useable. My most pressing problem is with the centerboard. On the first test float,lowered centerboard,but could not raise it. Rope felt free,it followed center board down and you could push it past top roller a little so it wasn't jammed up top. I had no choice but to load her up,on the way onto the trailer it snagged one of the centerboard bunks and busted it. Got her home,centerboard was snug- no play between board and frame-jacked and blocked her up,dropped centerboard expecting to find broken rope,jammed rope,broken pin,or something,but no real obvious problem. I downloaded the engineering drawings. My boat had the pins in the holes indicated by the drawing. My bracket had the pins in the lower holes and it seemed that the geometry wasn't right,you could swivel the bracket so the roller is stopped by the notch in the centerboard which would be the full down position.the angle of the dangle seems fairly close to right although it looks like the board wouldn't drop down as far as the owners manual shows. The real problem is the other way,the roller hits the board and prevents it from going parallel to the bottom of the boat. I re-looked at the guys very detailed post of his procedure replacing the rope on his 260. Aha! His pins were in the upper holes. I tried that on mine.complete freedom of movement both directions - but it is not stopped in the down direction by the roller. Crazy Dave,can you enlighten me? I think the four holes were there so it fits the260 & 240, but mine doesn't seem to work right in the lower holes. Sorry for the long post!
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