Hey, cool trick! I like the wet wick idea. The drains on the P-Cat are about half an inch off the bottom of the hulls, so they never fully drain. Tha...

You know, that's a really good point about the lax attitude. At one point I was teaching someone how to back a boat onto a beach with an onshore wind....

DAMN that's a sexy boat! One thing for sure: open the ports and leave it outside and uncovered, and it's gonna be dry dry dry inside in no time. If ...

Aaaaah! Thanks for the info, Damon. That helps a lot. Tom

I'll toss in a couple of other thoughts: Are you in it to sail or to do boat restoration? And how handy are you with a wrench? With epoxy and fibergla...

Sorry, I really can't answer any of your questions. But I wanted to add one of my own: I'm assuming "comptip" is short for "composite tip". If the com...

Hey cool! $4 is cheap compared to everything else that goes into a boat. I may go ahead and install it, and try this with a hood. Barring any unfortu...

If you're mounting an iPhone or iPod on the boom or on deck, do you think some form of hood would give you the contrast you need to see the screen? I ...

I was hoping a wiser head would answer you first, but... Here goes: Mast rake is more a matter of personal preference than something that's designed ...

I think it was between the last swage and the main, so it was always under load on the broken section. Sorry, I don't remember what that size should ...

I'd replace it as soon as you can. Back when I owned a P-16, we had a popped wire in our main halyard. We lived with it, figuring the other strands wo...

Huh! I like that idea! I wonder if it would be possible to set up a roller/cradle arrangement so you can crank the cradles out of the way, roll the b...

It would be even better if the forward rollers were ganged in pairs on a single pivot. That way they would distribute that load evenly between the fou...

That IS cool. If it's not in the database, it should be. Neat piece of history there. Tom

That makes me cry. 🙁 Tom

I might go the bolt of sunbrella route. The problem with killing a couple of tarps a year isn't just the demise of the tarp. It's all the noise it'll ...

MN3 wrote: yup, keeping lines, tramps, pfd's. etc out of the UV will greatly extend the life of the item. I throw 2 big tarps over my cat when it's i...

Call it "parts". Tom

If I had good fall protection, oh heck yes! I love heights. (I get to operate a big bridge crane at work from time to time. My fave!) But you can get...

I'll toss in one other idea that goes along with what pbegle said: Find a sailing buddy. I don't have a ton of experience on monohulls, but with a ca...

A veritable plethora of riches there, man! (Is it wrong that the term that came to mind was "harem"?) Tom

Hey, thanks for chiming in on this thread! I'm still trying to piece things together from hints and photos. I hope you don't mind if I occasionally ba...

Hey cool! Thanks to a Craigslist posting for a P-Cat, I found out the Pacific Catamaran makes a cameo appearance in the movie "The Endless Summer". Ri...

Only one tip: If the wind starts to blow, don't let go of your sheets, and don't cleat them if you can possibly help it! Of all the times I capsized m...

Hey, this is good to know! I've already got Oxyclean sitting on the shelf over my washing machine. My second main may or may not be worth saving. This...

Those last three comments really sum up my current concerns. The last time I sailed, my wife and I didn't have kids. Now we have three. All three are ...

Aaaaah... Makes me happy just reading that. I'm looking forward to your write-up! Tom

I'll toss in one other reason to buy a used cat, especially if you plan to build one: I've looked at building a cat for years (the last few years wer...