Diamond cut, bright colors, 3M backing, buy a roll, cut "wide", then trim straight on the boat, sand to angle after trim 🙂 -- I've seen them bot...

gahamby wrote: The issue I had with shipping a sail was the battens. I pulled them out, folded the sail, boxed it up, marked it "DO NOT OPEN WITH BLA...

CentralTransport. They are not geared for retail, but you can make it happen. Saves significant money if you avoid "residential delivery/pickup". A pi...

MN3 wrote: I am thinking that if you laid a non branded Ronstan, Nautos, and Harken block out on a table you would be hard pressed to tell the differ...

If your boat can handle shallows (ie, no daggerboards or daggerboards & case that you don't mind light groundings and the boat can sail reasonably wel...

Contact Beau outteridge.

+100 on the safety gear. The lifejacket, wear it snug, tight. Generally +1 on all the recommendations above. Lifejackets you can go cheap, they all ...

jlooby wrote: Anyone have a gps on board for speeds and what were average/recorded wind strengths during the race? I did, but was one of the laggard...

Hi Greg We had a great Foiling Week in Miami, in Feb 2018. The organizers hinted at a 2019, but at this time it looks like they dropped it. There ...

I'm fairly certain one of the recent DNA A-Cats -- -- will smoke and RC-30 over a short course or distance. Foilers are a hoot, and blistering fast...

And here's a very different edit of that same outing --

@Brad - drop by Miami, and gladly I'll take you out on my UFO. I will say it's 100 times more desirable than a Moth/Waszp because M&W are a pain in th...

@bradinjax - glad you like it! I hope to be there for the Moth/Waszp/UFO event January 25th on my UFO. Some friends will be at the a-cat event,

Winter sailing ...

Upper Keys Sailing Club -- for launching, and for local know-how.

Come foiling! Whisper, UFO and S9 foilers are all within reach -- cost and complexity wise. Those 3 are primarily for fun and I can attest first hand ...

What dogboy said about the 2 fluids and their differentials +1. Still, the final claim in the video is... theoretical at best, veering into misleading...

Let me clarify -- I use dyneema lines for trapeze "wires". If you're already dealing with metal thimbles, then... yeah. But soft shackles or a regular...

I would _not_ put metal shackes on this, _at all_. A bowline, a splice, or just a stopper knot (8, monkey fist...) are appropriate. Do not want to b...

In any case, in a race, there's a fleet around you. You can take a risk and at most you'll look like a fool if you fall off the boat and it sails away...

I do it, but not in racing conditions with actual wind. If your endless halyard/douse line is long enough that you can hoist/douse from a position of ...

Also, a tiger-striped foiling cat

Cool video -- new technique to have a "chase" camera Discussion and longer vid at

Yeah cutting tangled lines you can't see, under water, groggy/disoriented from the shock of the spill, in the limited time you have... not a practical...

I think the most important question is -- is the community here (and in the sister forums - catsailor, sa, etc) interested in writing up _what we know...

I do agree on the negatives of the bethwaite books. But there's valuable stuff in them that can be squeezed out. I haven't seen a better discussion of...

It's a foiler! Autocorrect fail!

I've added a pair of grommets to the trampoline aft corners. Thr chicken lines are attached to the midpoint of the rear crossbeam, on the underside of...

> I’m not sure what you would update. Modern bendy carbon rigs w laminate sails are tuned rather differently. Hull shapes. Endplating. Dyneema riggin...

A wiki would be a good platform to collaboratively write something like that. In terms of boats... A-cat, a modern f18. Some foilers: n17, whisper, s...