Boom goes the centerboard

[Jeff Wingo]

I took my 170 on the trailer about two hours away. When I got there and was getting her rigged to put in, I noticed that the centerboard had dropped...both the safety bridle that my dealer had provided and the main centerboard rig had broken. On the main centerboard line, the pulley had flipped over and the line, instead of running on the pulley, was running through the other side. One good bounce and it cut that line. Then the safety bridle snapped.The bottom line (no pun intended) is what do you guys do to keep the centerboard up while trailering? Do you just let it down and rest on the trailer, do you raise it and cleat it, or do you have some type of safety bridle?P.S. We retied the bridle and had a great day of sailing on Fishing Bay near Deltaville, VA.

 

[Edward L Smith]

I have trailered my 170 a lot

and I rigged a 2 by 6 on the trailer below the center board and lay it on there when traveling. I have also rigged a cross piece, also 2 by 6 for the nissan 3.5 that I carry. The only part that I lost so far was the mast stepping pole and I find that it was totally unneccessary since I had to have a way to insert the pin for the Forestay without beating my wife. I use the topping lift to tie it off to a cleat that I installed on the forward mast holder on the trailer. What I would like to have on this forum is a sharing of ideas about these things. I don't mind telling about my screwups and an occaisional good idea. Most of the things I have done I have found out about by reading through all of the forums and trying to adapt fixes for my problems.

 

[Den]

Can't break free

I replaced both CB pulleys with triples, The rope is now 3/8 " the cleat replaced with a Harken CAM cleat backed up with a wrap cleat. MUCH easier to pull the CB up, especially by my wife. Also will NEVER slip off / break etc. during transit.Yes would be nice to have a Hunters 170 hinys and kinks BBS...

 

[Jeff Wingo]

Where did you mount the cleat

I just replaced the pulleys with doubles and have the rope tied to a link attached to the mast step. It runs to the CB pulley...up to the pulley attached to the other side of the step...back to the CB Pulley and back angain to the step and then out to the cleat.