I am going to second Bob and Mathias that this is not a job you want to do with the boat in the water.
Inspect the lowered board, yes. Disconnecting it, no.
I'm not even sure if a marine engineer would attempt this with a diver.
How many boat related tasks have you embarked upon that you thought would be easy only to find out that with our old boats there are complications.
I would not want to be switching to a plan B or C with someone under the boat or the center board lying in mud.
As Mathias said, this job was hard enough to do while on the hard.
That said, I have not attempted this in either medium (air or water).
My $.02
Caleb
T27 #328 Odalisque
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob <screeminbob@...>
To: T27Owners@...
Sent: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 8:02 pm
Subject: [T27Owners] Re: centerboard inspection on water
What keeps the boat from sinking? With all that water running in it is
possible that the boat will lower itself onto your center board or
somebodies limbs, no? This just seams like a bad idea all around to me.
For the hassle and trouble it might be worth just having the boat
hauled and do it in the sling. Plus boat projects never go as easily or
quickly as planned. Just my 2 cents.
Bob
SV Gabba Hey
1964 #90
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