Cleared Genoa track of old hardware


We now have the boat turned around so we are bow in our slip. We do have a windward slip so this makes it nice. We were doing a lot of stern work and our pump out service wanted the side with the hose on the tank on the slip side. We do not have a finger pier in the middle between us and the next boat. About the only down side to this marina.
 Our pump out service cried and wined and bitched and charged us more. We had another service that would do it if this one refused.
 So anyway this makes it easier to do some work on this side, the starboard.
We will start the salon window replacement on this side.


We needed to cut off an old cleat type of thing on our jib car track. It was not an issue before because we had a jib and the block for that did not need to come back this far. This hardware has been on the track since we bought the boat. Now we have a 130% genoa and we need to bring the car back where this old thing is frozen onto the track.
 We did not want to wack it too hard with a hammer in fear of causing a leak or damaging the track.

 Even heating it up could cause a leak where the screws are bedded in.


The piece forward not frozen and we removed it.


The second piece, the big one was frozen and would be a bear to cut off and lots of little particles to rust up the deck. It is not stainless. We wacked it some with a chisel and a glass hammer and it started to come loose. Yay! That off and we were on to the next one.

The last small SS piece was not coming off with some hammer and chisel tapping. :(



 We got out the Drummel and cut one side of it off hoping it would come free. It did and that was that. 

A little tapping and it's free.
Not near as bad as was feared by me. The fact that the big one came off without cutting it off was the big plus.

Cleaned up the track some and we are ready to go!

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