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Thanks to all who sent kind replies. The day before HAVEN was to be launched I fell in a car park and fractured my jaw! After many weeks of jaw healing I discover that I had also partially dislocated a shoulder!! Well that all began ten weeks ago but its remarkable how soon one can adapt! My log boo...

This last spring the engine did not start and I could not find any one to fix that or diagnose the problem. Most of the years I had the boat I asked the yard (in RI, MA or ME) to make sure the engine was ok. Sometimes a yard worker attached the raw water intake to a bucket of water and ran the engin...

Thanks for all the replies. I'm having the shaft tube replaced right now and I'll write
about id when it's done.

I have a CD-28 1977 with a fiberglass stern tube. At high revs against tide and strong headwind a horrible noisy vibration occurred which stopped when I slowed down. Now with the boat on the hard and the bilge drained, it is possible to see that the stern tube where it enters the aft end stuffing bo...

A lot of good sense in the answers so far. I also single hand a CD28. It is amazing how well behaved the CD28 is when left to its own devices. Just let go of the tiller and then go forward to the mast. I like things to be simple so I have no lines back to the cockpit. (Except jib sheets!) When saili...

Oh and I forgot to say - I would like to buy it!

Hard to comprehend but it happened.
Anyone with a CD28 mainsail they are not using (maybe having replaced it with better newer one)
PLEASE contact me. Even if it needs repair.
Mike

Tim & Jim
Thanks for the ideas
Mike

Hi Tim, Yes I have laundered them and tried ironing them but not with much success. The creases remain to a degree and soon manifest themselves. I also store each tie for the winter in a tight roll with an elastic band around it - and that also helps a little. I just wrap the ties around the sail a ...

After a year or two my sail ties tend to fold down the center and so become more like
a piece of ugly cord than a nice flat piece of webbing. Any solution to this?

Mike

What do people do about the tension on the shrouds and backstay?

Interestingly enough the smoke problem remains there was a much more serious problem. I found water pouring out of the exhaust! The cause was that there was no mechanical connection between inverted 'U' at the top of the exhaust and the 'descender' pipe which also had the salt water mixing junction....

Thanks for your advice. Will do next time I go to Maine.
Mike

I have an escape of exhaust fumes. Light colored and not very thick but the cabin needs a lot of ventilation after some motoring. Also contents of the cockpit lockers get filthy with oily grime. I can't see where it is escaping. After starting the engine it appears to be in the air everywhere withou...

VegaIII, An excellent post. Right on the mark! Mike