This prompted me to tell my story: About 8 or 9 years ago, I had a chance to sail on a C&C 38 skippered by a real hot shot "professional sailor" (being a sailmaker was his disguise) who genuinely taught me a lot about the value of really fine trim adjustments on the car. " Fwd 2cms" "back 1" was the order of the day, so I took note and applied this to my instructions but in my case, used the stops on the original Merriman track on my 35-2 as guides, thinking how precise I was....
Well then, I decided to buy the Garhauer system and install it when I was re-doing my deck. According to the deal made with Guido, I sent the old tracks to Garhauer marked port and starboard and a few weeks later got my package with the existing tracks wrapped up with their respective replacements and lo and behold, all deck mounting holes matched as expected. So when I began installing, I inadvertently switched them and immediately noticed the deck holes didn't match, so grabbed the other and it did. But then, I looked more closely at the two, both the original Merrimans as well as the new Garhauers and noticed something else. NONE of the pin stop locations matched the other side. So, when I issued super precise trimming instructions, little did I know that they were for naught, as they never matched, in some cases up to 2 cms. So, it appears that at C&C in Niagara on the Lake, they simply had high school kids on the drill presses doing what they felt like.... There is no epilogue yet, as I have not tested these under sailing conditions, but they look fantastic and will be marked with that distance tape, so I have a symmetrical indicator.... ALEX GIANNELIA CC 35-II (1974) WILL BE RENAMED ON THE HARD SINCE NOV. 2006 Toronto Ontario _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
