Hi All
Hope everyone is keeping safe. We are proud new owners of a Northshore 38 ( Novice sailors and our first yacht).
It's been very frustrating as new owners since start of covid restrictions with this new strain and would like to get bulkhead repairs done up at Pittwater before bring her down to the harbour.
We are considering to do further repair/ remove a bigger section of the port side bulkhead, old leak through chainplate, knew this from owners survey we did before buying. Has anyone has done this kind of repairs on single spreader, single chainplate fixing amidships without dropping the mast?
Trying to avoid extra costs as the mast was re-steeped and standing rigging replaced in 2017. Shipwright will only do repairs if mast is down. Our boat is 1985 vintage and only has one set of midships chainplates, and no structural point amidships to tie down with halyards?
If we do this work and drop the mast now, we can not attend site and do any other upgrades and painting on mast myself, due to Covid restrictions. We have to move boat in the next few weeks to new mooring in Rose Bay.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. David

lydia said..
I would certainly get new chainplates made and replace all the bolts pretty quickly.

Ramona said..
Does the boat have aluminum toe rails?

julesmoto said..











No unfortunately these were not features of the North Shore design and nor was a midships cleat. Some sort of temporary chainplate would need to be rigged on the hull or deck. Personally I would perhaps go with fixing something to the top sides of the solid glass hull with a couple of holes drilled through which could be easily patched later rather than drilling the deck which is balsa core and therefore harder to patch and could result in wetting the core whilst the work is in progress.