I have some problems with the daggerboards on my Stealth. The problem is that they won’t stay down, it is like the water is pressing them up. Does anyone have some suggestions of how this could be avoided?

Pontus

the problem is that they float up, there should be a pice of elastic that goes from the edge of the trampoline where the trapeze wires go in, to the shroud, that holds them down.

I had that problem. They would fall down in the windward hulland pop up in the leeward hull. I put a few pieces of thick sticky back felt at the bottom of the well (the kind that goes on the bottoms of furniture) and that solved the problem. I think the bungee to them would work also but that is yet another piece of line crowding up the tramp.

John, do you have a photo of this? I don´t really understand how this is supposed to be.

look at the boat and find one of the eyes on the side of the hull that when you have a line from the shroud, it goes over the slot for the dagger board. Put a bit of bungee or shockcord from this eye and then tie it around the shroud plate. The shock cord needs to be tight to gold the plate, but not too tight so you cannot streach it to let the plate out. The shockcord just lies on top of the top of the plate keeping it down.

Thanks, but an image explains more than a thousand words
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Image anyone?

here you go.

Looking at the image, the shockcord needs to be tighter and I have also re-rigged this around the next aft eye so it goes over the middle of the plate case, it is also rigged under all the other ropes: