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My centerboard is badly corroded away in the forward end around the pin, and what's left is jammed in the trunk. Tried to free it but it wouldn't give at all. Probably a nightmare of a job to remove it, so I think I'll be sailing without it. The coring was an issue, but the boat I came across had a ...

Well, I called a friend this evening who also has a Sailmaster 22, and asked him about it, and he said he gets "a lot" of water splashing up out of that tube when he's healed, so he tries to remember to stick a rag in the top of the tube; he thought it was certainly possible to take on eig...

Well, after spending nearly all summer in the boatyard working on her, i finally launched my 1965 Sailmaster Saturday. She sat for 24 hours and took no water on, so, with my fingers crossed, I sailed her about 20 miles (3 1/2 hours) on a very close reach in about 15 knts of wind to where i will be k...