Oil Canning Transom O'Day 35

[Dave Mauney]

Brion

I appreciate the reply. What you said is what I thought. I used your advice before and went though all the calcs guided by The Apprentice and all made since. I used the loads for one wire size down, as the manual says they oversized the wire, and for the wire size in place and tuned right in between the two. Even with that I still get slack on the lea lowers. The transom is fiber glass. The loading on the chain plate on an O'Day 35 is pulling in on the chain plate top as well as up. The transom is not in line with the loading so it is not a pure shear. There is no cracking around it. What I am thinking about doing is adding some more thickness for stiffness to the interior of the transom with the load off the back stay next time I have her out. Any comment on that and any other ideas would be appreciated.

Good Winds,
DaveM
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