New to me 270, no mast light forward or rearward.
1. Removed corroded deck plug and directly attached wires form boat (mast lights red, white black wires) to mast. Nope, no power from wires coming from boat.
2. Went to circuit panel, found partially detached diode AND figured out how to attach correctly! Removed corrosion from terminals, and have a steaming light now but no rear light at mast. Will have to drop mast (the correct way) and fix.
thanks to the store on this site. Had just surfed all the parts for my boat. It eventually dawned on me that what looked like a partially disconnected jumper cable at the mast light switch was a diode that needed to be properly attached.
What looks like a drain on the sole of the 270 head is not. Goes nowhere, got brave and drilled a one inch hole. Finally found a bilge area under the port birth that connects with it. Looks like can be cut out to accept a drain and hose. That hose could be connected to a sump. Has anyone done this for a shower. Had a 26 from 2000 to 2009, I recall some talk Here about that.
Someone removed the internal reef line from the boom, not easy to replace. For now having it run externally. Set up with true one line reefing with line run to cockpit.
EZ steer connection on rudder broke, lost the external portion of it too. Found a used one on boat which seems serviceable. Original seemed to long and this is a little shorter. Would rather attach to rudder post instead of rudder. How to do and get fittings? Broke when grounded for some reason (very soft muck here).
I think just about every piece of hardware on the deck needs rebedding, WATER!
Anchor roller seems a bit small, want to get a longer wider one as hits boat and shackles get stuck.
suggestions? alan
1. Removed corroded deck plug and directly attached wires form boat (mast lights red, white black wires) to mast. Nope, no power from wires coming from boat.
2. Went to circuit panel, found partially detached diode AND figured out how to attach correctly! Removed corrosion from terminals, and have a steaming light now but no rear light at mast. Will have to drop mast (the correct way) and fix.
thanks to the store on this site. Had just surfed all the parts for my boat. It eventually dawned on me that what looked like a partially disconnected jumper cable at the mast light switch was a diode that needed to be properly attached.
What looks like a drain on the sole of the 270 head is not. Goes nowhere, got brave and drilled a one inch hole. Finally found a bilge area under the port birth that connects with it. Looks like can be cut out to accept a drain and hose. That hose could be connected to a sump. Has anyone done this for a shower. Had a 26 from 2000 to 2009, I recall some talk Here about that.
Someone removed the internal reef line from the boom, not easy to replace. For now having it run externally. Set up with true one line reefing with line run to cockpit.
EZ steer connection on rudder broke, lost the external portion of it too. Found a used one on boat which seems serviceable. Original seemed to long and this is a little shorter. Would rather attach to rudder post instead of rudder. How to do and get fittings? Broke when grounded for some reason (very soft muck here).
I think just about every piece of hardware on the deck needs rebedding, WATER!
Anchor roller seems a bit small, want to get a longer wider one as hits boat and shackles get stuck.
suggestions? alan
