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So this morning we left Brownsville, powerd out to Blake Island and raised the sails on the . Today was a beautiful day to be out in the Sound, Puget Sound. We sailed for a about 5.5 hours. The best sail I can remember in a long time. We have not had any problems with our X in 6 years, however, today after a great day of wind we powerd back towards Brownsville about 4 miles out we started having motor problems. No big deal we'll just sail into the marina. Wrong!! Our center board refused to come back down. $300.00 and 4 hours later I'm here, thinking to myself who in the world experiences problems that takes both forward abilities away from a powersailor?? Could have been much worse. I still am thankful for the great sail today and have no regrets. Now can some body give me a quick fix for the centerboard on a 2000X

I also have a 2000 X. If I understand correctly, your centerboard will not go down, and is somehow jammed up in the trunk by foreign matter or the centerboard itself is damaged in some way. Unless you are a diver, the only choice that I see is to put it on the trailer, get under there and see what's going on. My centerboard rope broke a couple of years ago, so this is a good excuse to check / replace yours.

ps, I'll be launching at Des Moines tomorrow and bumming around the South Sound for the week.

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Rich Plumb "Plumb Crazy"
26X, Covington WA

Rich, look for us, we're launching in Des Moines tomorrow as well. Headed to Quartermaster, Cutts Island, Penrose Point, and Gig Harbor over the next week. We'll be the X powering around, we're leaving the mast at home for this trip.

it's perfect time of year. I was just telling my wife it's time to buy the hitch. Okay thanks for the info and have a great week.

my centerboard works fine...sometimes.
it's really wierd, on the trailer it'll go up and down very easily.
and usually when i'm in the water & still without any lateral pressure, it falls just like in the video.
however, sometimes at sea, i cannot get it to go down.
so i let the rope flow out freely and, sure enough, a minute or two later it drops just like it's suppose to.
usually it seems that there's too much forward or lateral pressure on the hull (and CB). once the pressure subsides, the board usually drops cleanly.

i don't have an answer for why yours did not drop.
the manual (and many threads in the archives) will give you the method to drop completely while on the trailer, clean up, replace the rope, etc.

it's a fairly straight forward job that most anyone can do.



Bob T.
"DaBob"
'02X w/ '04 90-TLDI & '06 2.5-Suzuki

OT: See you out there Duane! I plan to make calls on Gig Harbor also, specifically Tides Tavern and the public dock. I'll be in and out of Des Moines, taking passengers aboard for day-sails.

Fair winds.

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Rich Plumb "Plumb Crazy"
26X, Covington WA

we had the same problem with our 96 last weekend. After we had the boat all tucked away and were almost ready to haed home. My wife went to drop the centreboard down a bit . No luck. So its go under the boat and pull it down., Found a bunch of "guck" stuck on the boardl. Got a stiff brush and a series of dived under, got I think most of it off. At least the board goes up and down fine now. We too had just came in from a great sail, and had raised the board to come into our slip. Lakes a bit low , but we just pulled it up too far and it was just stuck up. But all well now