Ron, I got a little different impression about my boat. I feel she definitely likes 10+kts and going solo in 20+ is not a problem. I sail her solo mo...

No, I have not. Not a partial memory loss! Sigh... May be full memory loss? 🙂 MN3, I drag my knuckles on the ground too... after a couple of hour...

Philip and Dave, Thanks for the responses. I won't hesitate to prebend my mast now. I am crewing on Nacra F-18 tonight and seems it's time to take a ...

16 to 1 and my wife can pull the head out. That's what we used on our 91 5.5SL, 97 sails, 420lbs on the diamonds and 1.75in of spreader rake, sailing ...

Rob, In my first post in this thread I had one more point ... In your case I believe you should get substantial depowering controlling your mast rota...

Rob, I must miss something. What did actually happen?

Rob, Barberhauler pulls jib clew down, loading the leach and making jib shape more round. You should use it downwind. You may try a bit of it upwind...

Rodrigo, Take a look at my Nacra 5.5SL barber hauler rigging. It may help you (or may not). The red line is a barber hauler line. The yellow line is ...

Floyd, Lets separate two issues: 1) Uncleating the main; 2) Tight main sheet. Uncleating the main depends mostly on the angle of lower block incid...

Ahha, now we talk about same things 🙂 But what do you call "anchor"?

Tyler, I use the biggest bag Murrays sells, no modifications. MN3, you are right about pulling the bag. I turn upwind for a moment to get it, when ...

I found a nice side effect in using righting bag: when you climb on the cat after righting, you still tow that heavy bag which works as sea anchor. So...

Rob, Floyd is correct about the force on main sheet on Nacra 5.5. You supposed to pull stronger in stronger wind, but stronger wind also require some...

Floyd, IMHO Nacra 5.5SL is an excellent boat for soloing. I do this all the time. In fact I had a crew only once this season. It's too bad you are lo...

Thanks coastrat. I got to be too simple for that stuff. I don't know how I can measure 22 degree "sail's incidence" for example. It must be very A-cat...

I did not like the resistance and the sound when I tried to do that. I thought that would destroy the lower layers of glass and new rivets would not h...

Why don't people wear their PFD's? I guess they never hit their masts or hulls with their ribs in capsize. PFD saves both, the ribs and the mast. Pr...

End of the story. The rivets arrived, I drilled the old ones, moved the track forward about 2", drilled new holes and riveted the track without rivet ...

I could not find a way to attach a picture... The rivets are going throuh the track, then aluminum tramp holder (with groove), then through the hull. ...

Steve, Thanks for the nice idea. Sounds like a lot smaller project, than expected. The rivets there are countersunk, that means the casing must go un...