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[quote=FlyingDutch]Wanted all to thank you very much for your replies. Extremely helpful information and I'm going to do some more research to find out exactly why the previous owner replaced the rear with a main beam. It surely does explain the inspection gate that is installed right behind the rear beam (although I have seen this on other Nacra's as well). Since I have never de-assembled the boat, are there any tips or anything that I should pay special attention to? One question still is goes through my mind regarding the straps, if the straps are there to just hold down the beam, wouldn't that almost become a hinge joint of some kind? What is keeping the hulls in line when one goes up when you hit a wave or something? I'm sorry if my lines don't make sense all the time, English isn't my native language which becomes very obvious when things get a bit technical. @smfinley. I want to make sure I understand your suggestion correctly. To repair the cracks in the hulls, you did sand down the gelcoat until you reached to the fiberglass layer? The West System Epoxy, is that white in color and is designed to replace gelcoat or did you end up painting the entire hull afterwards or something? Would you happen to have any pictures of how you repaired your hulls? @jfricker, that's very cool to read, isn't it awesome to sail and bond with the kids? One more thing that they enjoy is to practice a "man overboard" maneuver. I thought it was important that they know to stay calm in such situations so we practiced it with a life vest a few time but then they jumped over and wanted to be picked up themselves (they just love to swim). The only thing we have yet to practice is capsizing the boat. I did not want to do this without giving some folks from my club a heads up in case we needed some help and for this reason it just didn't work out yet. If you tried it at all? Any tips you can share? Also, when you Texans say "things are cooling down" does that mean you have to sail in 80's temperatures instead of 100's? Here in Ohio when things cool down we are talking snow normally. Things are cooling down soon I'm afraid! :-) @Edchris177 Thanks for that link to those pictures, that's also really helpful! BTW, that beam (and I'm pretty sure it's the rear beam too) does show a tramp slot (but no bolts inside of course). Thanks again! Marc.[/quote]

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