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  1. Well I finally had to bite the bullet and fitted the port side keel mech  bracket with a 1mm gasket made from Hypalon  rubber a tube or so of ARBO br (Butyl rubber) coat on every face.

I used Ptfe string on the C/S bolt (A4 316 )15 wraps coated with BR and tightened  to pull up to keel boxes to allow fitment of bulkhead bolts .

The clean up took longer than expected but overall I am pleased with the job and am confident it shouldnt leak oops shouldnt have said that Sods law ..The keel bolt tubes fall 4mm short of the 5 mm outer plate so I machined up  some 5mm insert rings in A4   to take up the void between the brackets and inner clutch plate which  is quite tight

I also  modified the outer clutch plate keel bolt stops  by removing the stops and welding on shaped  crescent  blocks tigged on, these fit inside the keel bolt inspection holes  in the outer keel box. as seen on previous photos. Starboard to do!!

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About simon

Boat: A5 ** Interest: My father purchased Diaphony in 1977, having just sold Our Lysander 17 called Grebe and with two adults and three kids and a dog it was decided that we needed a bigger boat.Having looked at a few boats my father stumbled across Diaphony A5 at Chichester marina on its trailer,after a while the owner finally clinched the deal with my Father in a pub at Dell Quay . After a year spent renovating A5 she was ready for launching at Chichester .The boat was sailed for the remainder of the 70s and early 80's having crossed the channel many times ,she was returned home for minor work and hasn't seen the water since. ** Location: bucks ** Country: GB

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