cloudchsr wrote: Re: SC17 transom damage from impacts, I believe there's a plastic screw in the rudder assembly that acts as a shear pin to prevent su...

The 19 uses 23" LOA extensions. And I'm glad you asked, because I just discovered the 20 has two different lengths - 25.5" and 29" - and I'll have to...

I can never remember how to get an inline image on here... br /> And the aspect ratio is screwed up... Grr... Can anyone help me out with this? In ...

Boat's home and mast is down again, but I'll try to string the shroud up and get a photo. Also, I recently scanned a couple of pages from the SC20 ma...

That's the plan. Other than finding an appropriate chunk of anodized tube, replacing a couple of wires and doing a little tiller/rudder repair, shoul...

Yup, came with the main - I never would have been able to confirm the ID without it, since (so far) I haven't found any markings on the hard bits beyo...

Reactivating an old thread here. Unpacking this pile of Unicorn parts, I think I have it pretty much mentally sorted out. I can see how the standing...

rch701 wrote: Usually owning a "unicorn" of anything means hard to find parts and a weird item, but I am very jealous over this actual Unicorn. Great ...

revintage wrote: Congrats 😎 ! Not if you ask my wife...

Just going through a turning block (or two) doesn't change the load. And it should go without saying to avoid the plastic clamcleats and stick with A...

wxguy wrote: 1970s Condor, British boat. They were fairly quick! You may have been right. From the Unicorn site: "Trowbridge and Sons became the o...

Thanks - wasn't much of a trick to find the Unicorn site, but that video's pretty nice. Auction closes tomorrow morning, we'll see how it goes. Li...

Yeah, I just got back from the auction yard. It's a mixed pile of stuff - obviously the wooden bits don't belong, there's no tiller/crosstube, and th...

wxguy wrote: Front beam slot, IYE gold beams, IYE rudder gudgeons. Plus, I sailed with them in the mid-late 70s. Where do you think the center tube ...

And I've straddled the fence on The Beach Boys: Sail On, Sailor is a terrific track, while Sloop John B. sucks sweaty goat...

jack108136 wrote: Is Little Feat OK? Little Feat is fine. Even all these years after Lowell George assumed room temperature, the band still has hi...

jack108136 wrote: Can we agree on no Christopher Cross. Damn straight.

Wow - really? What tipped you off? Btw, it's less than an hour drive from me, so I'm probably going to pop down and take a look on Monday.

Wow - you a brave man. When it comes to music, I'm as serious as a sucking chest wound, so that's like talking American politics. I hate Jimmy Buffe...

I'd be very interested in knowing whether it came out of the factory with that traveler. The early years, including the very short time that Whaler a...

I wrote this here a couple of years ago in an unrelated discussion: In the first couple of years that I had the Mystere, I hauled it down to SoCal (b...

Alright, then I'm going to toss another idea up for discussion - I had some time to think over the past week while pulling up about 500 ft^2 of 1.5" o...

The notion of "the disposable society" has certainly been the long-term trend, but I'm not sure it's a one-way trip - I think the pendulum may be swi...

Alright - some actual data points! They may not be hard numbers, but you've got what you think is a reasonable population sample to look at. I think ...

MN3 wrote: the hobie 16 i purchased for around a grand was 13 years old at the time On this site there is a 13 year old C2 for sale for $13,000 On t...

I get it. But the 16 wasn't $1000 new, and the 18 wasn't $400 new. The original owners paid much more for them, so your used price isn't really a ga...

I'm really focusing my curiosity on cat sailing as a greater, mass-market recreation. 225 boats in the H16 Worlds sounds to me like maybe between .01...

charlescarlis wrote: I asked my son, a sophomore in college this. His answer was "Our phones are our hobby." That, and video games. One of his budd...