"sorry mate, we're at a bit of a delicate stage here, mind if we keep or eyes on the job" then if he keeps prattling on, just go uhuh, uhuh every few...

would be a good safe start to boil up a lot of water and pour that over the 1st knuckle before you hit it with flame move the flame around a a lot ...

very common on the h14, came as standard on the h18 but i've never seen 1 on an h16 it's a BIG fully battened jib and the h16 basically is very diff...

hobie 16 i'm guessing? to lower the mainsail release the downhaul pull down on the halyard, to lift the mainsail a little and get the metal ball o...

don't think you need the epoxy to actually melt, catch fire and burn with horrible black smoke epoxy will generally soften well before then and the b...

sl16 is/was a french catamaran designed by top french cat sailor yves loday who also was involved with the uk spitfire cat from the shape the sl16 ma...

^ think that's for the traveller car harken are strangely silent on the blocks i think they figure that the average block will run 30 years with no ...

the way i look at it is my harken blocks are 30 years old... while harken say to not lube them, whatever lube was there from the factory is long gon...

MN3 wrote: silicon spary is not recommended as it attracts dirt and sand i thought the whole point of silicon dry lube sprays was that they didn't h...

hot water clean sounds good spraying in silicon lube once a year seems like a good idea to me i use waterever i find but ronstan makes something tha...

rlltrash wrote: the 17 is a fun cat but VERY (VERY VERY) WET! What make the SuperCat 17 wetter than other cats - hull shape? Or is it faster, ther...

they compare very well in good condition on a good trailer $2000? for an 80's build average condition on a poor trailer $1000?Edited by erice on Nov...

supposedly the first 3 letters of the hull number are the manufacturer code the 4th letter the model type then the hull, sometimes sail number an...

from my nacra number list Move to Woodland hill, California factory - thicker foam sandwich hulls, no seams on outside or stringers visible through i...

klppurdy wrote: can you get that weta all the way up on one hull. it kind of looks like they are there just for stability. no you can't the floats ...

i mention my 14' weta here on occasion and no one seems to mind having said that for technical questions and answers you are probably going to get mo...

if someone said it was an a-cat it might be worth checking if it's 18' long, really light and single trapeze proper a-cats don't have jibs and of th...

looks like soft expandable foam in the core if it is, you can't use it for bonding as it is too weak, it also won't do much to hold any alignment peg...

pics would help but from the sounds of it you could get by with rebonding it with epoxy if you can pull the 2 haves apart by hand without damaging e...

golfdad75 wrote: I have read where the overlapping jib on the 5. 2 is outdated and it has been found that the smaller blade jibs were more efficient. ...

deleteEdited by erice on Sep 24, 2012 - 04:01 AM.

nice boat, i would have 1 in a flash basically the gold standard for old beach cats such a wealth of tuning tips and equipment out there i wouldn't...

the weta tri can be soloed with 3 sails up first you cleat the main and jib, then unfurl the gennaker when sailing you keep 1 hand on the tiller an...

the getaway is fast enough to catch most recreational monohulls for most people most of the time certainly it's enough for taking a small child and...

buy a 2nd hand getaway learn to sail on it, take out your wife, children and friends and if it turns out you really get into cat sailing sell if f...

meanwhile in kiwistan Edited by erice on Sep 06, 2012 - 12:54 AM.

on our small gusty lake we don't really need any emergency electronics, within 30min after a capsize the boat would probably be getting smashed up on ...

did you find a price for ronstan they are making very good stuff in that size range

any sail number?

good story when it blows it blows