Patrice FERRAULT wrote:Hello,
I am a new 26M (2004) Mac Gregor Sailor, and I just lost my daggerboard in rough weather last week (How can this happen: no grounding, no warning, the board just disappeared !?!).
Before considering making a new one, like I understand many of you did, I would like to buy a manufactured one.
Anybody can help me to find a source, preferably in Europe, otherwise in the USA ?
Thank you for your help
I,ll lay u odd,s that ur D/B up-haul & safety lines failed when I pulled my D/B when I was getting her Bot painted for this spring so as I could also paint up inside the D/B trunk about 26" I discoved my up-haul line was badly frayed right at where it came out the top of the D/B & the safety line was also badly frayed at the midway point my boat is 2008 so I,m assuming I would have met the same fate if I had not installed new lines this yr , unfortunately when I pulled the D/B I also discovered it badly damaged approx 4" up from the bottom for appox 4-6" hole in the front of it appon trying to figure out how that happened , I remember once pulling the boat onto the trl & she came to an abrupt stop then remembered my D/B was still down 2'
never thought no more of it but as my boat is very heavily loaded & with ballast still in it would not have taken much force to do that damage the D/B is very flimsy the damaged area was only about 1/16" thick
as I did not have the means or time this spring to repair it I had it repaired & also had the PVC mod done at the same time cost me about as much as a new D/B but now my old one is much stronger
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) in the trailing edge with Marine-Tex. It's great stuff, but I'm almost afraid to pull it and see how it held up (I haven't yet). I reeeeally need to do Doug's (parrothead's) PVC mod at some point. We'll see soon if it's going to be this year.
