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[quote=Edchris177][quote]why the previous owner replaced the rear with a main beam.[/quote]
Might have dropped the mast on it & bent beam.

[quote] Since I have never de-assembled the boat, are there any tips or anything that I should pay special attention to? [/quote]
It's about as simple as it looks. The easiest thing is to take lots of high res photos of each section of the boat before you remove anything. Later you can blow them up without loss of detail & see what was. When re assembling, put some grease on the bolt threads. Download the two legacy manuals from here, they are almost the same, but sometimes one has better photos. Go through them several times, it is amazing what you will pick up. I "think" the front & rear straps are the same. Straps from a 5.2 are slightly longer in the rear vs the front. My 5.7 are all the same, not sure about the 5.0. I wrote on the back of mine with a majic marker what spot they came from. I have seen several with ports, my 5.7 has none.

[quote]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? [/quote]
That would be true if it were only the frame of the boat. Once you lace the tramp up tightly it stiffens the entire rig.

[quote] you did sand down the gelcoat until you reached to the fiberglass layer? [/quote]
I would leave the cracks in the side alone, you will open up a real can of worms, & it doesn't leak now, let sleeping dogs lie. It is only cosmetic. Personally i would do the same for the cracks around the beam. If you place the hull up on some stands, & turn it on its side, or upside down, you can probaly lay some matting over the beam cracks, from the inside & wet it out with resin. If you want you could later dremel out the cracks around beam & gel coat them.
West epoxy will not dry white, if you put it on the outside it will really show up. Look at the pictures I put in TECH HELP "Fixing a previous owners crummy repair job" I just got around to gelcoating that patch  this summer.
Sail the crap out of your boat for a year or two, then think about cosmetics.<em>Edited by Edchris177 on Oct 05, 2011 - 10:13 PM.</em> [/quote]

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