Yes but a foam core is required for soft spots. Delammed glass by itself just crackles and oil cans excesively then eventually cracks and breaks. Th...

Holy! What did you buy? I just got 50ft of ultralight for $60 and 40 ft of Yale Phd for$50 from the APS sale rack. Outfitting my new 5.7.

Let us know what you think of them. Those Nautos blocks would be a good option for us cheap guys. Good to spend a little bucks on the mainsheet. ...

Good vid, good angle! How'd you mount the camera?

Out of the ones you listed the 5.0 would be the winner. You can right it by yourself, has good volume in the hulls, no boom to hit kids heads and its...

3/8" is a good diameter for a mainsheet. I found the same thing as you with the 7/16". A good option from APS is to get a thinner high tech single br...

Why get rid of the 18? Both the 5.8 and 6.0 are a big performance boost. But they are more complex boats with a lot more to worry about. Given ...

I like the racks to effectively widen the beam. Would be very handy!

E-mail sent. Thanks Chris!

As far as the Nacras go. The 5.7 is an 18.6' skeg boat, 360lbs, 8' beam, boomless main and 230 ft2 of sail area. It has piles of bouyancy due to the...

Can do, they are sitting in my garage right now. I also may have a few other bits and pieces if you need them.

My 5.7 is etched under the rear crossbeam also. Could have been painted over a few times too.

Hmm maybe not.

Maricat 4.3

Nacra 5.7

Unfortunately that seems to be a common reaction to potential disaster. I haven't gotten my wife back on the boat since a really bad incident a coupl...

You can get decals from The Cathouse .

My 81 5.2 oilcans like crazy, my 86 5.7 is solid. The 5.2 is glass only, 5.7 is foam laminate. Im not sure if they made the 5.7 as a glass only boat...

I would say that boat weight and mast raising can be dealt with. I handle both my 5.2 and 5.7 pretty easily by myself on cat trax. This year i got a...

I'm certainly no racer but going upwind from a beam reach to close hauled I always keep my traveller close to centered unless I'm way overpowered and ...

Just got my rigging in. It is looking awesome. I thought I would try out the cheaper roller furler by Ronstan . It's a tiny thing but the price was...

Any of the 16 footeres would be manageable with a 240lb crew. Get a cheap hobie 16 and go to town! Be aware that you may not have enough weight to r...

That is awesome. However, where I'm from 'Happy Ending' means he's been holed up in a massage parlour for the last 6 days. 🙂 I'm sure he wishes tha...

The stuff on the Nacras is EVA Foam, same as what the midsole of your running shoes is made from. It's also used to make those non-slip tiles for kid...

Yeah as everyone said the see through were just missing gelcoat. Most of the keel still had full gelcoat except a few patches on the skegs. The hole...

You can peen the blind side of a pop rivet to make it cleaner. The tough part is getting the nail head out. After that you start it mushrooming with ...

Ill write a full description when i am back in civilization and nottyping on the phone. Long story short, the hole was very small. Three layers of ...

Thanks erice, i will probably do a full repair next weekend ( minus gel coat). My off season here is below freezing so better to get it over with whi...

Alaska

Well i got her home after 20 hours od driving. Rigged her with the old rigging and tramp and got 2 really nice days of sailing out of her. Wow that ...