HMMMM! I like this idea a LOT. So here's a related question: If you find a sail that has similar foot length, but is too tall for your mast, do you t...

Hey, cool! I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures of your boat. (Awesome hull number, by the way!) Hey, does anyone know how to take apart the m...

You can also pick up shaft collars in fractional and metric sizes from most bearing suppliers. (My guess is that's what those drill stops are.) Anoth...

I'm sorry I can't help, but I have to ask: Whatcha gonna do with the bits and pieces? This sounds like a cool project. Tom

For a boat with spreaders on the mast, Sailcare sells something called a Halyard Silencer: On my Prindle I'd occasionally string a bungee between h...

Tow vehicles I've used: Dodge/Chrystler K-car (my friend's). Worked, but the hitch we bolted to his bumper through the plastic bumper cover was ugly....

Hey, if you have an owner's manual, it'd be a huge boon if you could scan it or photograph it! And awesome you found two cranks. I have only the one....

Hahahaha! Touche. Yeah, we had to be flexible when we lived in Texas, too. Sometimes "flexible" meant: "Drive somewhere else, or don't sail." Years a...

It's the light stuff that means I get to go home at the end of the day. Wind here tends to pick up around 9:30-10:00am, then holds steady, often drop...

Hey, yes! Do you know if you got one of the earlier P-Cats, or the later one, the P2-18? The P2 had a taller mast, among other things. Royce's Saili...

Aaaaah, things worked out, so all's well that ends well. But I'll keep that bolt cutter trick in mind! My guess is it would've saved me half an hour o...

No downhaul on the main since the main halyard never truly locks. The battens were still bolted in when I took that picture, so I was a little leery o...

Yeouch! Glad you had the presence of mind to turn back to shore before you lost anything more than the dolphin striker! Tom

We took our P-Cat out for a second time last weekend. This time we remembered we'd packed a camera, and actually used it! We put in at Kawaihae Harbo...

The batten caps came in over the weekend! Last night I sat out back with a Dremel and my water spray bottle I use for wet sanding. Grinding off the ex...

Hey, this raises a question I've been pondering: At some point I may break a rudder housing. I hope not. I never have before. But if an when the day ...

That sounds like hell to me. Just getting the mast up in that kind of wind sounds like hell. I think I'll stick with my low-wind days here. Tom

That there is enough to make a grown man cry. Tom

DAMN! That was brutal! Was that a rogue wave that threw them to leeward and flipped the boat? Cripes, watching their mast pop almost made me cry. Any...

I wound up picking up a set of Hobie tensioners. I won't have them by this weekend (cripes, it IS this weekend and I'm still at work!) but they should...

Hey, you bet! I haven't added many pictures recently, but the work goes on. Good news is at this point everything's an improvement, not a necessity. ...

How long a pole do you figure? Are you talking inches or feet? I'm interested in playing with something along these lines. I've got the better part o...

Cool video! I like that vantage point. Kinda neat to see your mainsheet going through the blocks. I like the idea of a camera attached to the boom be...

If the boat is the original gel coat (typically what comes with a fiberglass molded boat), a gleaming like-new shine is a lot closer than you might th...

Tons of good ideas! Yep, I love this site. You guys rock! I'm going to touch base with my wife at lunch today to see what she's found in her drawer o...

I agree with the idea of finding a boat and sailing on it before buying. That way you don't get any complete and utter surprises. It's breathtaking ho...

Huh! With that fiberglass forward beam, it looks like it draws at least some of its heritage from the P-Cat or the Catfish. But it looks like it has o...

Looks like a part is missing. Tom

I gotta jump on the band wagon on the lake thing, too. I utterly disagree that a cat isn't the right boat for a lake. So far all my cat sailing experi...