[C320-list] rebedding the traveller

[Scott Thompson]

My boat has developed a small leak around a bolt for the traveller into 
the head compartment. It's prompting me to think that a project this 
winter should be to remove and rebed the traveller. If anyone has tips 
for this project I'd like to hear them. For example, how to remove the 
traveller, and what else I should be doing as part of the same project. 
I've been a lucky man so far in that my boat has managed to avoid many 
of the problems others have experienced with older boats. But it is time 
to face the music on a boat that is 17 years old but still seems new to me.

BTW, has anyone replaced their traveller with a different design? I've 
frequently been frustrated that the control lines jam.

Scott Thompson

Surprise, #653 (1999)