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Boat sitting on keel. Jack up boat v slightly to take weight of boat off bolt. Bolt should move fairly easily with a tap. Take off nut. Knock through old bolt with new bolt with 5 lb hammer gently. At first I was V nervous of this but with weight off bolt and new bolt following the old one, it has a...

I have boat number 7. So it is quite old, but I still love her. It has a heavy drop keel and it is the one thing that I get nervous about. So I change the pivot bolt every few years and check the winch and cable every year. In fact after the cable broke 2 years ago and damaged the hull, I fitted dou...

I have seen another 22 that may not be on your list. No Name on the boat but it was moored in the wooden boat restorer yard ( cant remember the name) in Emsworth, back of the slipper millpond. It had a outboard well and I think no pullpit, which is why I think that you did not know it. Looked used a...

I used to tow mine on a second hand 4 wheel home made trailer made in the dockyard from I section steel. It weighed a lot but was a largely flat bed with adjustable scaffold pipes in the corners and a central section for the drop keel. I recovered and took it home in the winter and back in the sprin...

Nice to see an owners association. More boats than I realised, especially near me. I am TANTALUS II, in Langstone Harbour, at Tudor. My boat is one of the early ones. Number 7 on the sail. I have had it about 14 years. It is not pretty by now, but its mine( it was knocked over in the 87 hurricane in...