FYI - can't miss handles are garbage. I've seen at least a dozen failures, including one when I owned a H17. I made some dogbones out of 4mm dyneema...

delaunhe wrote: I have searched Google for hours and I am unable to find what I am looking for. I seen several years ago on TV a very large traditiona...

Why use stainless, the boat isn't heavy enough? Aluminum is fine.

The design/fit/finish is outstanding with these boats. They were origionally intended to be car-topable. Though never sailed a Dart smaller than an ...

MN3 wrote: use a chalk line with a level? Put down the crack pipe. Lay down masking tape. Water-line tape on either side. Done.

Sailing Anarchy has SCOTW (sailor chick of the week). Perhaps we can have CSCOTW? (cat)

Must be a misprint. I've never seen one and thus, they don't exist.

MN3 wrote: missing a mystere 3.7 and if your gonna seperate the 60. and 6.0 XL, there were also XL versions of the 5.0xl and 5.5 fun Mystere never ...

Kill it with fire.

You do NOT want to use 5200 to replace a deck lid (you called it a hull cap). That material in question is Mystere's own putty, and while working for...

FYI - Hans Geisler is a local sailor buddy down here (founder of G-cat). He uses the aformentioned "primitive" Portugese turnbuckle on his forestay. ...

I sat through Wind. 'nuff said.

Point is, someone needs to make a serious cat-sailing movie to fully satiate the members of this board. Anyone got a friend at Warner Bros?Edited by ...

Thomas Crowne is not correct. It's The Thomas Crown Affair. I like oatmeal raisin.

There was also a Hobie in The Firm, though beached and not sailing.

Pete you should post up some pics!

No worries D! I use sno bowl (toilet bowl cleaner) which, like barkeepers friend, also has oxalic acid.

It's not soap man, it applies like a cleaner wax and does wonders to remove heavy oxidation (wax on, wax off Daniel-san). Used it on a 1972 Albin Veg...

+1 for gel oxidation, though paint can oxidize as well. If your hulls are white and not-yet-painted, there's a host of products and techniques to res...

Not a fan. I had a hobie 17 years ago and never quite felt comfortable trapping off them. Hopefully yours are covered in mesh. Mine were of the old...

ericweller wrote: That's gotta be correct. I heard it on Jaws. That might be the greatest single thing ever posted on this site 🙂

Steve, good to see another Mystere owner on the board. Yours is definitely vintage! The rudders are gel-coat & glass, filled with foam and Mystere's...

Get boat insurance, it's cheap. I pay a few hundred a year which includes theft. Just bear in mind that guy in Sarasota last year who lost (and ...

That's absolutely brilliant!

Vintage, got pics? I ended up getting a Dewalt Worksite radio/charger which runs on a lithium ion 18.1volt battery. That's good for about 2 days of ...

Thanks! They're 20 year old wide weave mylar from North (and about completely shot). But they look awesome from about 50 feet.

Tami- Hydranet looks very interesting, but I can't find any info on strength, weight, stretch, etc. The reality is, all of these high-tech laminate...

Or go cheap. I used white laquer in a rattle can from home depot on my dart 18 rudders. Prepped with 320 wet/dry then did 4 light coats and some fin...

I repaired one before on a Hobie 17, though it was damaged vertically. The previous owner had towed the boat long distance lashed to the back beam wh...

Foster Grant. $15.99 at Wallgreens. Allegedly they're polarized but I just dig the amber lenses - makes everything crystal sharp on the water.