Burt, You should have several options.
You might consider talking to Guido or Mark at Garhauer Marine. They may be able to make you a new and better car for a reasonable price. I'm assuming there are sheaves on the ends of the car? How much room is between the sheaves? Enough to install a padeye with two fasteners? That would hold up to the loads better than a single point attachment system. Your description doesn't sound like a Harken car. More like a Merriman or a Schaefer. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Burt Stratton via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Took my salvage project to Newport this weekend. Beautiful sail down on > Saturday. Front rolled through Saturday night and tested my anchor and > ground tackle at the anchorage near Ida Lewis Yacht club. All worked fine, > thank you. Cozy first ever evening on the boat with the admiral. Very > enjoyable considering the stark accommodations. Learned a few things about > life aboard the new to us 33 footer. Only real issue was the traveler broke > over-night. The broken component is a stainless steel eye bolt in the > center of the car that is used to attach the mainsheet block. It goes > through the car and is secured by a nut on the bottom. I am not sure this > is original design or hardware. Can’t find a traveler car on the interwebs > that looks anything like mine. I assumed it was Harken as everything else > on the boat is. It is a very simple 4:1 arrangement with 8 captive rollers > that ride on the track. The hole that the eyebolt goes through looks like > it was threaded once. I ended up using a 5/16 stainless eye bolt that was a > close enough fit but it is definitely a temporary solution. Does anyone > have a source that might have the correct components or am I looking at a > new traveler track, ends, blocks and car? > > > > 1974 33 ¾ tonner > > Portsmouth, RI > > > > bstrat...@falconnect.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of > page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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