Whoops - missed this one. Not really my neighborhood, but years ago I gave up on trying to rent anything serious in Ontario (meaning: a fiberglass c...

Common practice, either onshore or at the dock. Give it a good yank and walk it down by the shroud.

There are a few of these videos I've wanted to see for a long time. If they're not selling it new anymore, the obvious thing to do is leave an ebay s...

Since the two photos are different, the "more right" one is the closeup. You just need to learn to tie a bowline on that becket on the bottom block r...

You're talking about the mainsheet? How about a photo and we should be able to sort you out?

What do you mean? As far as we know, they're still in production:

Honestly, it's got me wondering whether it's actually supposed to be $30,000 . That mast alone has to be worth $10K.

Wow. That's a lot of boat, period. Just, wow. I'm having a hard enough time holding down the 19, and my plan is to move to a 20 for the extra beam,...

MN3 wrote: Nice write up here on the history of Mystere there are a LOT of them here in the tampa area (I own 2). apparently Yves used to bring th...

Awright, I'm starting to find it. In CBC's stream, at 3 hours 40 minutes (into the 5:30 W/M Preliminary Day 5 coverage) race 2 starts. (After the pr...

Is that one of my scans? I know I put some stuff up here on this boat some years back. I'd have to check, but I think the S was a slightly later ver...

johnoau wrote: love the legs 😀 Yes, that's the stupid awful annoying version. Don't watch it unless you want to start yelling at your screen too.

I watched that clip - it's a hella great crash - but the version I saw was really annoying. Every time the mast head hit the water they'd reverse the...

Andinista wrote: A bit off-topic, sorry for that: Looking at the title i see the same missconcept that i had: there is no Formula 17 (or if there is, ...

I'm sure it's geofenced, but in any case, are they covering the mixed multihulls? Because in past years broadcasters have tended to concentrate their...

Heh. Okay, here's my cheapie story: Years back I thought it'd be a good idea to get a dinghy for our girls to learn on. Spotted a Bombardier Invita...

waiex191 wrote: Yesterday's sailing. My kid's buddy bought the Formex boat with the red sail for $30. That totally rules. We jam econo.

Though I've been exclusively multihull for about 40 years, I heartily second that advice: It's better to learn on a monohull, because they're sensiti...

Perfectly reasonable suggestion, one of those little styrofoam Snarks or Sunflowers - I excavated and resurrected a Sunflower (that my wife had as a k...

Wow - shrouds? Do you have a means there of doing a tensile strength test? I'd love to know how little force it takes to unroll those eyes.

PVC tiller, huh? I just got back from Lake Newell (Brooks), where there's an H18 that appears to be reasonably well kept - it has a new Slo tramp and...

So you had better results by using a separate ring and twist shackle rather than a welded pair like the "legacy Nacra" one shown here? Although the...

Ah, okay. That rib is what the hinge (I guess you'd call it a gudgeon, but...) is attached to. It's bent/twisted on top, but we really can't see wha...

I don't get it either. Pretty hard to offer any advice if you don't tell us what's wrong with it.

On a closely related note, how come nobody's mentioned shroud extenders (w/ or w/o Hyfield levers)? Hobie sells 'em, and Bill Roberts saw them as int...

Not trying to go off on a tangent, but... The original 18 rudder mechanisms were evil. That's why they got replaced. They'll work properly for year...