My Mary and I finally got around to digging out the old keel lock bolt (pin) from the trunk. (Not the pivot bolt). In our 1982 Mac 22. It apparently was in while the keel was up. It had no washers installed. When the keel either fell or was lowered it hit it it bent it and sucked it into the trunk before we bought the boat long ago. It was just jammed in there. You could lower the keel but there was no way to put in another safety locking bolt because the old bolt kept the keel from going far enough to allow a replacement bolt through. So we pulled the keel while in the trailer and I used a tool I made to leverage the bolt around back into the original hole, twisted it the let it drop out.
The rubber bumper is long gone, does anyone know the dimensions of the rubber keel bumper so I can fabricate a new one? I called BWY and asked to buy one, but got a deer in the headlight response as they did not know there was a rubber bumper in there.
See photo of bent keel lock down pin.
The rubber bumper is long gone, does anyone know the dimensions of the rubber keel bumper so I can fabricate a new one? I called BWY and asked to buy one, but got a deer in the headlight response as they did not know there was a rubber bumper in there.
See photo of bent keel lock down pin.