We'll be there for the regatta mid-May 🙂

I have a UFO. Damn fun boat. A bit like a catamaran until it hits 7kt, then once it gets going not quite a catamaran (you can configure it not to fly,...

Get Mylar, don't ever fold it, roll it, care for it like an overzealous parent...

jalex wrote: I posted this a year ago asking about which route to take from South Florida to the Keys and ended up going gulf side from Flamingo. Thin...

No joke. I just typed thebeachcats.com on my webbrowser, it got redirected to yahoo.com. Some ad is sneaking in malicious JS, or the server is hacked....

But would you agree that most of the load is used to bend the mast rather than taking wrinkles out? "take the wrinkles out" is the minimum cunningham...

As other have mentioned, small modern cats use a hook at the top because we use the mainsail boltrope (and the mainsail itself) to bend the mast prett...

A second hand Nacra 15 (2up for youth, but good to solo). Main and spinnaker are easy/fast to rig and launch. More expensive than older models, but s...

Wetas are amazing fun in a blow.

that's a good way to out yourself travel52 🙂

Good discussion on this very topic here --

+1 on everything people said about not having the sheets cleated and/or being super fast to uncleat. If you are going upwind, you can pinch (will slo...

Crazy to the point of being suicidal - but it's done and noone got hurt so we may as well enjoy it -

My jib uses soft shackles on head, tack and crew. For the main, the boom "strap" at the clew and the cunningham attachment are soft shackles. All th...

Where: everywhere 🙂 When - when you are bored - you need a small number of tools, and lengths of rope. Once you get the hang of it, the number of t...

I use soft shackles almost everywhere these days. They are - cheap-ish to buy (definitely cheap compared to metal shackles) - there's a chap selling...

Gettin tribal on us 🙂 great vid - your son is on point! what is the story with towboat us? were you in a channel? Side question: do you have a boo...

Light winds, smooth helm and TowBoatUS almost crashes into us -

So I ended up doing something similar with some sunbrella, grommets and bungee loops with balls (which you can get cheap on Amazon).

Nowadays you can get deeply discounted GoPro Hero5 Black which has all the goodies you need (GPS, top quality image, etc). Not sure exactly how much, ...

Modern "wave piercing" bows are great even for non-racing as they significantly reduce the chances of pitchpoling. You can dig a bow quite severely, a...

Miami once a month. Look for the cabb group on Facebook.

Don't follow the instructions about removing the thin line part of the halyard after hoisting. Instead, coil it up and strap it to the spi pole with a...

I have a 1 meter CF tube I clamp on my spinnaker pole. You can do the same, even longer tubes from plumbing supplies, combined with bicycle mounts. Th...

You'd pair it with a 2nd hand kite from an 18ft cat or from, say, a 29er. I'm sure you can buy a beat up 29er kite for peanuts.

Is rigging a spinnaker out of the question? I've done diy spinnaker pole and chute for light air on a dinghy. You wouldn't want to use it in any rea...