manual/ deploying centerboard
- Thread starter df1995
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The handbook/manual is on this site across the top menu "FREE C14 Handbook"
http://www.capri14.org/forum/C14_Handbook.pdf
There are lines that attach to the top of the centerboard and route forward then back along the cockpit sides. Use those to raise/lower the centerboard. There is also a bungee cord that attaches to the top of the centerboard and runs to the transom, this should keep the centerboard down but allow some give if you run aground. I have removed my bungee and now use one of the cockpit lines to raise, and the other to lower. I cleat mine off in the down position while sailing... it is not forgiving at all when I run aground though, but it does not creep up while I am sailing either.
Good luck and enjoy
-Robert
1989 Catalina Mod 2
1984 Catalina 22
http://www.capri14.org/forum/C14_Handbook.pdf
There are lines that attach to the top of the centerboard and route forward then back along the cockpit sides. Use those to raise/lower the centerboard. There is also a bungee cord that attaches to the top of the centerboard and runs to the transom, this should keep the centerboard down but allow some give if you run aground. I have removed my bungee and now use one of the cockpit lines to raise, and the other to lower. I cleat mine off in the down position while sailing... it is not forgiving at all when I run aground though, but it does not creep up while I am sailing either.
Good luck and enjoy
-Robert
1989 Catalina Mod 2
1984 Catalina 22
gregwcoats
Member
I sail in Ventura Harbor, consider towing your boat up here someday and we can sail together, more fun that way. I have been in MDR on my Catalina 30 but just overnight on the way to and from Two Harbors on Catalina Island.