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Last year I discovered a crack in stem head fitting, and a few days I took it off for my friend Mika to repair in his welding shop. It turned out the crack went all the way through, running along the welding between the horizontal plate and the part running down the bow. The new repair was finished beautifully, but in the process, two more cracks where discovered along the base of the vertical piece to which the forestay is fixed.
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The existing mainsheet setup was a miserable affair. Although initially fairly standard, with a traveller on the bridgedeck, hauling on the sheet was done by a self tailing winch that was mounted so that the sheet very easily came loose. If you touched it when moving in the cockpit. Or looked at it. Or sneezed anywhere on the boat…
The obvious thing to do would be to mount a violin block with a cam cleat. However, I really, really wanted to be able to control the mainsheet from behind the wheel. So, following the current fad, I decided to try the "German mainsheet system" (aka "Admiral's cup" mainsheet system).
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When we bought the boat, one of our survey findings was some rust on some chain plates, and some very corroded chain plate bolts. The people we paid to change the rusted bolts for us before we sailed her home changed only those that were easy to get at, which in the Offhore 41 leaves 4 or 5 that are a bit tricky... Having read about chain plates in CL's failing where they pass through the deck, we decided to remove all of them an check their condition.
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