{"id":655,"date":"2011-10-11T13:13:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2014-10-22T18:42:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T22:42:32","slug":"pt-eleven-daggerboard-trunk-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/pt-eleven-daggerboard-trunk-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"PT Eleven Daggerboard Trunk Cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those choosing to make their PT Eleven with the sailing option, we created a watertight cap for the dagger board trunk.<br \/>\nWe chose G10 &#8211; Garolite in order to have a strong and stiff cap that would be as thin as possible (1\/8th inch) so we could keep the profile very low and still be water tight. The dagger board trunk opening is close to the seat and the rower would actually sit over it with 2\u00a0 people in the boat. Also, having a good lid is important if you would want to tow the boat.<\/p>\n<p>The optional kit consists of a machined G10 Garolite cap with gasket groove &amp; stiffener groove, gasket, mahogany stiffener, machined Garolite spacers,\u00a0 plastic washer, plastic tether washer, tether string, turn-dogs,\u00a0 and fasteners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1691\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DB-cap-kit14sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1691\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DB-cap-kit14sm-1024x587.jpg\" alt=\"ptwatercraft.com\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DB-cap-kit14sm-1024x587.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DB-cap-kit14sm-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DB-cap-kit14sm.jpg 1931w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PT 11 Daggerboard Cap kit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Below you can see the cap installed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1692\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DBcap14finished.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1692\" src=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DBcap14finished-499x1024.jpg\" alt=\"ptwatercraft.com\" width=\"499\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DBcap14finished-499x1024.jpg 499w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DBcap14finished-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DBcap14finished.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installed Dagger Board Cap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When sailing with the dagger board down, the turn-dogs also serve to keep the board down by resistance on the aft end and looping the string over the forward one. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those choosing to make their PT Eleven with the sailing option, we created a watertight cap for the dagger board trunk. We chose G10 &#8211; Garolite in order to have a strong and stiff cap that would be as thin as possible (1\/8th inch) so we could keep the profile very low and still&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,28,1,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-hardware","category-kit-options","category-nesting-pt-11-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}