Nary is there a sailor (or boat owner in general) that does have small catastrophes happen while out on the water.
We discovered while I was scrubbing the bottom of happy that the centerboard was dragging on the ground as we swung back and forth on the anchor. The pulleys on the line were tight to the block but the board was not tucked into its trunk. We weren't sure how long it had been that way but we were lucky there was no damage to the boat, centerboard, or pivoting brackets.
This most likely was caused from the knots tightening on the new line we installed (http://www.kaseyclyde.com/2014/11/project-hunter-h26-centerboard-saga.html) or perhaps even a small amount of stretching, It was something we hadn't even thought to check and this is a video of how we fixed it.
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