How do you replace the line to the Centerboard?

[wallabunga]

Hi, we have looked but can't find this question on the site - how do you replace the line running from the centerboard to the cockpit?  Thank you!

[doug]

We dropped the centerboard (using a neighbors boat lift) to have access. Then it was a simple matter to threading a line down to the centerboard and securing it with a knot that was small enough so it would not get stuck between the centerboard and the centerboard housing and cause the centerboard to get stuck party up or down.

[carry-on]

Are the centerboard and the housing stainless steel? Thought I read on the forum that the housing is aluminum. The history of aluminum against concrete is not too good.

[Bob23]

I thought the centerboard and case were stainless but I could be wrong. It happens frequently!
Bob23

[Glenn Basore]

on the Eclipse its Stainless..............

[doug]

Stainless on the cp16 cb.. I think all the Compac are stainless

[skip1930]

Were talking about a newer 1500 lb CP-16 here with centerboard? Or an Eclipse?

Regardless Jack her up on the trailer bunks with a floor jack of two or better ton capacity. Keep jacking up off the trailer's rollers or board under the keel. Keep lifting it a few inches at a time all the way around. Don't forget to loosen the Vee Block at the winch. Once your as high as the hull bunks can go place a 24" long 2 x 4 long wise on the floor jack and under the keel. Find the balance point. As the hull is lifted inch by inch place 8 foot long 2 x 4's under the rub rail. About 3 to 4 per side. As she goes up keep moving the ends of the 2 x 4's on the ground toward the center of the boat. When the supporting 2 x 4's are about 20 degrees to the boat stop and peg the ends to the ground and tie or chain the ends on the ground together under the boat. Drop the board and change the line.

Or forget the trailer. From floating, ground her long wise on the beach and grab the mast's halyard [mast needs to be in the normal sailing position] and pull the hull over. Make the halyard longer if more leverage is needed. Or pull her over with a car.

No big deal. skip. I jacked my CP-19 clean off the trailer and she sat on a 5 ton floor jack pretty as you please when I made a pattern for my 6mm 'KEEL BOOT' for rock protection and cut an aluminum BOOT and glued it on.