2020-09-09; 10:23:12 EDT
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I went out this morning and using the loose boom (everything is on the ground) to act as a long straight edge across the two vertical rails. The difference between the far port corner of the transom and the far stb. from the imaginary straight line across the two rails is barely a quarter of an inch from a perfect 90 degree angle along the midline of the boat. That is, I think pretty true. So I was obsessing on the wrong spot. However, an improvement I think would be to angle the bottom 1" SS pipe just a bit so the wheel is at right angles to that portion of the transom where it rolls up and down. Or, give the wheel a bit of bevel so you get the same result. I understand there is a strip or "track" that the wheel rolls on in later versions of this set up. I'll retro fit it so the force is more evenly distributed. So really, no problem here. Thanks for all the advice and suggestions so that I could see the light of Stan's engineering. Chris G EnosisSee the original archive post