Interesting - that's not how the clubs work around here. Not that I'm really familiar with any of them (I could never join any club that would have m...

danielt1263 wrote: I've been going to my local sailing club for almost 30 years. They still have summer camps with kids on Optis, they still have Hobi...

I want to understand why.

I've continued to think about (and research) this subject, and I think it's time to revive the thread, it being the off-season so a little more time i...

Bryan: Is Lake Geneva one of your regular haunts? If so, perhaps we can get together there next year. We've been totally shut out of the US for the...

I know what the Dunning-Kruger effect is. These days we seem to be awash in very public sterling examples. But I think it's a stretch to apply it he...

It's not obvious to me what you're getting at.

Edchris177 wrote: PM Dave, he has 5.7, in Winnipeg,(Winterpeg), it’s cold enough to freeze the nuts off a steel bridge there... Heh. Sho'nuff it is...

That would have been my answer too (the part about expanding upwards), but there's the possibility that water can penetrate downward into cracks in th...

I totally get that. Until I live on a lake, I have to trailer, and I don't want to be limited to an 8' beam - or a tilt. I do difficult sailing in d...

Yeah, the 20... I think there's one in my future, and I'm chagrinned over being stuck with the wire traveler (now that I know how ugly it is) because ...

When I fetched the boat from Long Island I made a point of a little detour through MN to meet Tom - two years ago, almost to the day. Weather had tur...

Working on this boat is really changing my thinking on some stuff. When I was resealing my mast to factory spec in the spring, Tom told me that he do...

Yeah, there are some details. I've been looking at the Harken catalog and specs, and though a 22mm should do it, I'm a big "compatibility" geek and w...

This is a very SC19-specific question. The problem is that there's no track or car - it's an old boat that has a wire instead. So I'd like to quiz s...

Regardless of subject, every forum's got a couple.

MN3 wrote: Do what ever you want but it would be nice if we could ... Ummmm... I was busy elsewhere for a couple of days... did I miss something tha...

(We really need to take this to a new thread...) Unbelievable to me that after all these years Sansoucy wouldn't have come up with an actual grown-up...

MN3 wrote: "Flaws"? You call a rudder that: a) Doesn't lock down; b) Doesn't lock up; and c) Doesn't kick up a "system [with] lots of flaws"? i don't ...

"Flaws"? You call a rudder that: a) Doesn't lock down; b) Doesn't lock up; and c) Doesn't kick up a "system [with] lots of flaws"? I call it "inexc...

klozhald wrote: Wow. You guys that trailer long distance with your rudders on really like sloppy steering. I never trailer with the rudders on. Not t...

rungi wrote: I do not agree that is has no strength in the fore aft direction. otherwise a windy day would be dangerous. but pulling it from a certai...

We're suffering some subject drift here, but wrt the rudders, taking them off for trailering is nothing but a waste of time. I've put countless thous...

Wow - that looks like very cool stuff, thanks. Now I just have to get around that pesky won't-sell-to-Canadia thing...

Btw, I don't use denatured alcohol (ethanol) or isopropanol anymore for cleaning anything. I just buy big (40oz) bottles of Everclear, and it's a lot...

Yikes. I'd be asking the guys who built it. It'll certainly depend on what the adhesive used was - some solvents (like acetone) are pretty "broad sp...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Clamcleats hanging in free air (rather then screwed to a surface) gross me out. I use essentially the arr...

You mean if the hull full of water is the one up in the air? The point is that that's less likely, as it's the heavy hull that's going to be depresse...

That's a lot of water. Very hard on the boat, because it's not designed to have a hundred pound load inside the hull.. It'll be much easier to capsi...