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Guys : On the inside of the mainsail track on the mast below deck you'll find a tape writer strip with the hull # and the indication if it is a tall rig or regular mast!!

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Guys : Look at Eric's post above and you can see the white coating that is on his keel under the gray barrier/bottom paint.

I've read the after you shine up lead it almost immediately forms a coating of lead oxide. I believe that Catalina probably changed their specs to have that coating - at least with the 1986 C34 & subsequent production.
That way barrier coat and or bottom paint would better stick !!

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Guys : I believe that all of the C34 keels from 1986 and subsequent have some kind of coating on them!! reading I've found that exposed lead almost immediately form a coating of lead oxide!!

Maybe Catalina changed their specs on the keels since 1984!?!

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Guys : I've heard Gerry Douglas say a number of times, "You have never heard of a keel falling off a Catalina Sail Boat"!!

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juna : A tie down strap should adequately secure the muffler!! Just make sure that the plywood is adequately glassed w/mat to the hull - I had to redo mine!! Epoxy will also work!!

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Guys : On my boat 1988 there is a coating of faring? material completely over the lead keel. Maybe that coating has changed over the years and now appears to be fiberglass?? 

I believe that all Catalina lead keels have a coating on them!!

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Guys : Pete has a Bomar center hatch.  I wrote a Mainsheet tech note article on that very topic.  I was able to remove the old hatch by using a heat gun.

I installed another Bomar hatch, but I'd recommend that you buy a Lewmar replacement.  It has the same corner radiuses and a friction opening rather than an adjusting arm into the hatch lens (dumb place for an adjusting arm to attach!!) 

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pby : Yes, that's the correct can opener!!

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pby : I'd call EDSON (508) 995-9711 and send them your picture and pose your problem to them. I've talked to them in the past and they have been VERY helpfull !!

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pby : Look like the faring material is flaking off now that you tightened up the keel bolts!!

I'd take a "V" type can opener and scrape out the old material and use 3M 5200 and far-in the crack.

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pby : Yes, that's the correct video. What happens over time is that the threads in the cable lay closer together giving the impression of the cable stretching.

I was able to tighten up my tension by just removing that "Dog House" screwed into the ceiling of the aft cabin and use extensions and a deep well socket.
 
On a MKI with a standard transom -- REMINDER those "Dog House" screws are two different lengths!! So when you reassemble the longer screws go into the overhead(UP)and the shorter screws the part that is on the outside of the water tank (aft panel)!! Yes, you can puncture the water tank if you mix up the longer screws!!!

Not too sure what your MKII aft cabin overhead looks like ?? so you can disregard my cautions on screw length as your MKII maybe completely different!?!

You want to take up the tension equally on both sides. You want the tension to be just tight with no sag - NOT super taut !! 

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Justin : Sorry about my inapt suggestion.  You best slap some "Bondo on it and buff it out"!!!

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Justin : Not too sure if this suggestion will work or not?? 

If you have that broken piece see if you can put it back in place and make a single wrap of fiberglass mat around it ending with the joint on the top. Then wet that mat with glass and let it set.

The reason I' said it "might" work is because you'll need to get the rubber log over your repair so you can clamp it in place. you probably will need to file/sand that joint smooth. You might be able to use a heat gun to soften the rubber log and slide it over the repaired "donkey dick" (PVC pipe)??

It might be worth a try??

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Justin : How about a picture of what that shaft/log looks like now. 

Also always give your production year and hull # so we can give you the best answer!!

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She : Read the Friggen Question!! Sorry for my diet-tribe on the winch on the mast!!
I'll guess that's On the boom - it was for the outhaul?

I have a "pigtail" on the goose neck for the reefing of the mast for the Mainsail Kringle!!

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