San Juan 21 Class Association

Scary. My mast fell some distance in the fall of 2016 but it wasn't until I started rebedding the deck hardware last summer that I noticed that two chain plates had bent sternward about 45 degrees. Nothing that I was't able to straighten with a big pair of visegrips. Now I think maybe I'll just repl...

Winter is the sailing season in Mississippi and I was going out almost every week until the end of February when my wife got hit in the head by the sideview mirror of a truck. Now I'm beached indefinitely. Eventually I started putting a day in every week rebedding the deck hardware. It took me a cou...

Check out youtube, that's what I did. There's about a dozen videos for every aspect of sailing.

That's hard to figure. I'd think any movement would be happening at that little plate that that the chain plate goes through on the deck. Yes, I worry about my bent chain plates. But now I'm also worrying about what kind of damage the shrouds and turnbuckles may have sustained.

Guy; Where exactly did the chain plate fail? That's where I want to check mine. I don't understand what the bulkhead would have do do with it. The chain plate attaches to it below the deck with six or seven bolts. My mast had what we RC pilots call a "rough landing" from about five feet that bent my...

Yesterday I was rebedding one of my hand rails and I noticed that one of the rivets on the plate that goes over the chain plate had snapped off and that plate had lifted off the deck a little. I guess that will be my next repair. So I drill out the rivets and replace them with through-the-deck bolts?

Those plastic cups and caps that cover the nuts inside the cabin, what are they called and where can you get them?

Shucks, QJ, you over in central Alabama? If you are ever going to be over on the Mississippi coast give me a call and maybe we could go out in Bucket List. It gets slow having to sail solo all the time.

I've had 2517 out about ten times, but I wouldn't go out if winds would be gusting over 15 knots. Kind of reminds me of when I first began to fly RC electric planes and would take out a plane when the winds were too high. It took me a while before I developed the discipline to stay home. That's scar...

Kuriti; Any idea what the max amp draw for your system is? I was thinking about a sixty amp system with extra heavy wire, like 2 awg, for the battery leads. But my battery is in a compartment next to the transom. The 2 awg boat wire to run from there to the cabin is kind of pricey. Is that why your ...