Stopping a centreboard from clonking

[Kelpie]

Well this thread has taken the usual festive fun twist. The pair of you need to get a room or something.

Thank you for the food for thought. Everything is conjecture just now, as I've never seen the hole in the plate and cannot say whether it is worn or not.
I am going to dry the boat out on some baulks of timber, and drop the plate a few inches to allow me to inspect the hole. Until then, play nicely, children

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Thank you for the food for thought. Everything is conjecture just now, as I've never seen the hole in the plate and cannot say whether it is worn or not.
I am going to dry the boat out on some baulks of timber, and drop the plate a few inches to allow me to inspect the hole.

I would be interested in seeing a picture of what's there when you do that. How old is the boat?

 

[Kelpie]

She'll be 45 next year. Eek!
I assume that the centreboard is original, because a) you wouldn't buy in a replacement in bronze, you would just buy a new boat if you had that money! ; b) surely the point of a bronze board is that it doesn't need replaced as it isn't corroding away.
The boat did literally nothing for the four years prior to our ownership, (was sat in a mud berth), and I was told she did only one season of sailing in the ten years prior to that (don't know how she was stored/maintained, though). The other thirty years are a bit of a mystery.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

A bit of clonking after 45 years is not bad (assuming it's not been fixed before). At that age I'd guess it will be proper bronze too, not some brass passed off or named as bronze.