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I found that there are no nuts or nut plates, just curious if anyone else had a similar situation.

My O my, I am flattered when those Rhodies who praise the Rhodes engineering get pleasure out of finding what they think is a flaw.

In the Rhodes 50 plus years, I have not heard of a single genoa track pull off - when used for what it was designed to do; carry the load of the giant 175 genoa sheets. That load is carried by a great number of machine screws; more than sufficient to carry the _shear_ loading placed on them.  Of course Todd did not mean they should be bolted on to the gel coat.  But I think his comment that /"I've found more than a few questionable//things which needed to be properly "re"engineered."/ is gratuitously disingenuous. Personally my over the hill engineering mind would think it silly to mount docking cleats to genoa tracks. Even if those tracks had long enough machine screw passing all the way through the outerside of the hull and had fender washers and lock nuts on them, those shiftable docking cleats would distort the thin edges of the genoa tracks making the genoa cars a chore or even impossible to adjust.

If you want to put on docking cleats, mount them to the boat proper. You want a spring line cleat, don't use it for a docking cleat.  You want a boat engineered for docking? Have I got a boat to sell you. No hands, no straps, just three little docking eyes. See attachment. Guaranteed to hold for any winds. Just stop putting moving docking cleats where they are not invited to go.

stan

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Stan Spitzer

Unbolted track