that is real specific AND comprehensive regarding how often to perform certain tasks, i.e. monthly,quarterly,etc. thx
I need a good pm guide
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here's why you'll never get one:
preventative maintenance schedules will change with usage. Half the folk on this site don't get their keels wet until after Easter and then they haul the boats back out of the water prior to Halloween. They either prep the boat in the spring or winterize the boat in the fall, and it's all sailing in between with no time for preventative maintenance. Among those who use their boats year 'round, half of them don't visit their boats more than once a month, and the other half are hell bent on wearing their boats out. What works for in one situation is not going to work in the other. I live aboard my boat, and average more than 50 sailing days per year. You probably don't want to hear that I change zincs at least four times a year and that I clean the shower sumps monthly. My jib sheets are two years old, at this point, and I'm worried they won't make it through summer. I used to have it in my head that running rigging ought to be good for three years, but I've blown two jib sheets subscribing to that theory, and I really ought to know better. Performance concerns confuse the issue further. The America's Cup boats count the number of tacks they've got on their sails, and retire the poor old things once they get up to about 500 tacks. But there are fellows on this site who will tell you that if you've got a 10-year-old genoa all you need to do is get the sunbrella cover restitched and that sail will be good for another decade. Really.
preventative maintenance schedules will change with usage. Half the folk on this site don't get their keels wet until after Easter and then they haul the boats back out of the water prior to Halloween. They either prep the boat in the spring or winterize the boat in the fall, and it's all sailing in between with no time for preventative maintenance. Among those who use their boats year 'round, half of them don't visit their boats more than once a month, and the other half are hell bent on wearing their boats out. What works for in one situation is not going to work in the other. I live aboard my boat, and average more than 50 sailing days per year. You probably don't want to hear that I change zincs at least four times a year and that I clean the shower sumps monthly. My jib sheets are two years old, at this point, and I'm worried they won't make it through summer. I used to have it in my head that running rigging ought to be good for three years, but I've blown two jib sheets subscribing to that theory, and I really ought to know better. Performance concerns confuse the issue further. The America's Cup boats count the number of tacks they've got on their sails, and retire the poor old things once they get up to about 500 tacks. But there are fellows on this site who will tell you that if you've got a 10-year-old genoa all you need to do is get the sunbrella cover restitched and that sail will be good for another decade. Really.
Many "checklists" are available online in
Association websites. Pick one, then make it your own. Use will vary the period between repetitions. Oh, then you'll NEED to add the ones that are particular to YOUR own boat.
Association websites. Pick one, then make it your own. Use will vary the period between repetitions. Oh, then you'll NEED to add the ones that are particular to YOUR own boat.
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Could not have said it better.. P.S. Where are your jib sheets wearing? Is it your ST winches that are abusing them or shrouds or deck hardware or something else? I can get about three to four and usually at that point they have been reversed to move ST winch wear... I find ST's kill jib sheets a lot faster than in the days of non ST's..
Could not have said it better.. P.S. Where are your jib sheets wearing? Is it your ST winches that are abusing them or shrouds or deck hardware or something else? I can get about three to four and usually at that point they have been reversed to move ST winch wear... I find ST's kill jib sheets a lot faster than in the days of non ST's..
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MS, You're right, the self-tailers take their toll. However, my aft primaries are Antal non-ST winches, and the grooves on those babies are even harder on sheets. I can't blame it all on the winches, however. The problem is threefold: (1) it blows 25 knots on an average summer day here in SF bay; (2) it doesn't snow here, so I end up sailing year 'round, which means the sheets sit out in the sun year 'round; (3) I'm faculty adviser for the sailing team at the university where I teach, so I have a limitless supply of 20-something winch monkeys, all of whom are capable of busting a line, who take me seriously when I instruct them to trim the sheets even if it's blowing the oysters off the rocks. This, of course, is the whole point of my reply about preventative maintenance. When I bought my first large keelboat I was told that running rigging should last at least three years. Well, my halyards are good for at least five years, since the sails stay on the furlers most of the time. The sheets, however, won't last past their second summers. Those same sheets, on someone else's boat, won't be turned into fender whips for at least a decade, especially not if they're owned by a boater who also owns a snow blower. I'm not complaining, of course; a buddy of mine chaffed through two spinnaker halyards on his way to Hawaii. That's one per week, with the third one half worn out by the time he'd downed his first Mai Tai.
MS, You're right, the self-tailers take their toll. However, my aft primaries are Antal non-ST winches, and the grooves on those babies are even harder on sheets. I can't blame it all on the winches, however. The problem is threefold: (1) it blows 25 knots on an average summer day here in SF bay; (2) it doesn't snow here, so I end up sailing year 'round, which means the sheets sit out in the sun year 'round; (3) I'm faculty adviser for the sailing team at the university where I teach, so I have a limitless supply of 20-something winch monkeys, all of whom are capable of busting a line, who take me seriously when I instruct them to trim the sheets even if it's blowing the oysters off the rocks. This, of course, is the whole point of my reply about preventative maintenance. When I bought my first large keelboat I was told that running rigging should last at least three years. Well, my halyards are good for at least five years, since the sails stay on the furlers most of the time. The sheets, however, won't last past their second summers. Those same sheets, on someone else's boat, won't be turned into fender whips for at least a decade, especially not if they're owned by a boater who also owns a snow blower. I'm not complaining, of course; a buddy of mine chaffed through two spinnaker halyards on his way to Hawaii. That's one per week, with the third one half worn out by the time he'd downed his first Mai Tai.
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