chainplate moving

[Ian McColgin]

The bobstay attachment may be suffering from air/water induced electrolysis, just as the copper anti-fouling paint, copper sheathing and many metal boats go faster at the waterline. SS is not very active and has a far longer life than copper. You can test this yourself with a sensitive meter clipped to two ends of a copper bar. Keep one end dry and the other wet in salt water, but move the bar up and down. You'll get a bit of voltage.

Anyway, boats move around enough that I can't see how moving everything aft in order, as close to original as possible, will do any harm, unless you already tune to a foreward rake and want to take that out.

I take it that whatever is happening with rusty water can be fully drained and made to not cause more water intrusion and hull delamination.

G'luck.

Ian