We recently purchased a 1993 Hunter 23.5 and are having a real hard time finding parts and information on this boat.
Issue one:
Surveyor is telling us to put plates and nuts on the rudder bolts inside the hull and to extend the bolts on the motor mount and do the same ... I would assume that there must be nuts welded to a stainless steel plate and imbedded in the fiber glass for this? I am thinking that if we go down this road maintenance on these parts may become extremely difficult?
Issue two:
The 2 pulleys embedded at the base of the mast have a separator which has totally disintegrated allowing the Jib rope to travel over to the main sail pulley when raising the mast ... how are these pulley's installed? There appears to be no access to the axle ... is there any directions on how to remove this assembly with out having to cut a hole in the cabin under the mast area?
Issue three:
How tight should the guy wires be ... the description in the manual says they should never be piano or guitar string tight ... is there no way to determine the best setting ... we had to replace 3 of the T-bar bolts because they were bent past 15 degrees ... I marked the original positions and put the new t-bolts back in at the same position ... the thought being that the bent t-bolts would have made the lines even tighter ... they still seem to be really tight. I would expect that if you went up lets say 5 feet off the turn buckles and took a deflected distance measurement to the mast that a min/max value could be given to determine a suitable tension?
Issue four:
With respect to the Positive floatation specification we have only found foam in the forward compartment ... can you tell us if there is foam elsewhere in the boat? Also is there any data on how far the boat can heel before turning over or does the water ballast prevent this under normal sailing conditions ... we are sailing on mile wide mountainous lakes where we tend to get unexpected down drafts if we get to close to shore ... we are very concerned that one of these down drafts could take us past 45 degrees and wondering if there is a point of no return?
Currently we don't like going any further then 30 degrees with 10 to 20 being comfortable.
Issue one:
Surveyor is telling us to put plates and nuts on the rudder bolts inside the hull and to extend the bolts on the motor mount and do the same ... I would assume that there must be nuts welded to a stainless steel plate and imbedded in the fiber glass for this? I am thinking that if we go down this road maintenance on these parts may become extremely difficult?
Issue two:
The 2 pulleys embedded at the base of the mast have a separator which has totally disintegrated allowing the Jib rope to travel over to the main sail pulley when raising the mast ... how are these pulley's installed? There appears to be no access to the axle ... is there any directions on how to remove this assembly with out having to cut a hole in the cabin under the mast area?
Issue three:
How tight should the guy wires be ... the description in the manual says they should never be piano or guitar string tight ... is there no way to determine the best setting ... we had to replace 3 of the T-bar bolts because they were bent past 15 degrees ... I marked the original positions and put the new t-bolts back in at the same position ... the thought being that the bent t-bolts would have made the lines even tighter ... they still seem to be really tight. I would expect that if you went up lets say 5 feet off the turn buckles and took a deflected distance measurement to the mast that a min/max value could be given to determine a suitable tension?
Issue four:
With respect to the Positive floatation specification we have only found foam in the forward compartment ... can you tell us if there is foam elsewhere in the boat? Also is there any data on how far the boat can heel before turning over or does the water ballast prevent this under normal sailing conditions ... we are sailing on mile wide mountainous lakes where we tend to get unexpected down drafts if we get to close to shore ... we are very concerned that one of these down drafts could take us past 45 degrees and wondering if there is a point of no return?
Currently we don't like going any further then 30 degrees with 10 to 20 being comfortable.
