Unexpected Reverie Rudder Surprises - What Does the Centerboard of a Boat Look Like?

Ever wonder what the centerboard of your sailboat looks like? Here is what the centerboard of Reverie, our 1985 Pearson 34 CB looks like. We also shared with you a URS (unexpected rudder surprise). When we rebuilt the rudder the guys at the shop did a great job on the rebuild. The one thing we did not accounted for was the amount of clearance needed between the rudder and the hull. Of course, we were not able to assess this until we re-installed the rudder. Check out what we had to do.... For those of you considering buying a boat with a centerboard, one of the most important things you can do the minute you buy it inspect and replace the pendant. The pendant is the mechanism that allows you to bring the centerboard up/down. It consists of an attachment bracket, a pin, a wire/rope/combination of both line that leads to the cockpit, a winch or pulley system to give you leverage depending on the weight of your board. On Reverie the system is pretty simple, but we needed to inspect the board itself to assess the condition and also to clean the centerboard trunk for painting. On this video we will show you the centerboard and the mechanism as we pulled it from the boat. Thank you very much for watching our videos. Please subscribe to our channel as we have more videos of the refit we have been working on for Reverie. Any questions, please post of the comments, we reply to all of them.