West River Sailing Club has a fleet of catamarans, mast up storage, and a launching area.

All of the nacra castings used to wear a flat spot on the top of the ball, requiring frequent replacement. We solved that by waxing the ball, placing...

It's the fore/aft beams that bend. If you look from the side, the high spot will be over the axle/springs and the front and back will droop down. I'...

It's because of the rocker in the hills. As you slide the boat in over the rear cradles you need the extra clearance from the bottom of the hull to t...

you set the winglets at zero angle of attack. When the bow goes down, it creates negative lift on the stern, pulling the stern down - leveling the bo...

Rudder winglets would be more effective and less dangerous.

It reduces the hobby-horsing in chop, and significantly reduces the tendency to pitch pole at high speed. You will need to beef up the transom, the g...

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My bad. It's the 18v Hammer/Drill with the side handle. The extra handle makes it easier to hold onto when you're running it in high speed mode. -M...

I haven't used one for a beach cat. However, I have one set-up to to lift the 1600lb keel on my Melges 24. And I set a second one up for a friends c...

20v Ryobi works fine. Put it on drill/high speed. The load is insignificant.

boxes of swages, rigging fittings, shackles, stainless rings, chain plates, sta-set adjusters, spinnaker pole end fittings, snap shackles, quick pins,...

This guy right here with a 5/8" socket on my drill -br /> Works great. You could even rig a 1:2 purchase and pull it up faster.

I have a box full of Harken H299 pivot blocks that just need the cam cleats added $20/ea

You can save money and make a better combo halyard/retreival line by milking the core out of the dyneema halyard. Take a 65' line and milk 20' of cor...

Sewed a 100 oz camelback onto the back of our PFD. Fill it 1/2 way the night before with gatorade, freeze it, and top off with water the next morning...

Looks like an A2 with straight boards. One of the least forgiving A's for downwind sailing in waves. It's an early surface piercing bow design that ...

The Zhik has more adjustability. It comes with multiple pads to adjust the internal fit and a rotary adjustable head belt, similar to what you find i...

sounds like a turnbuckle barrel

soft shackle

That's a novel approach to doing a 720.

All of the Nacra's that I've sailed used the trap method. With the A's, we've gotten more precise by using a digital pitch gauge -br /> Zero it on t...

OK here's a long one. Just my opinion, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn once... I've done 5 or 6 Tybee 500's on the 18HT, F18, and N20 platforms. I'...

Strength wise, about the same. However, if you load and unload the splice over time, the straight bury can work itself out. I've seen it happen quit...

When you're tying the bowline, instead of passing the line over the shackle pin and back to complete the knot. Make a wrap around the shackle pin and...

none of those links work for me Try tomorrow - it usually takes vimeo a couple of hours to upload them to their servers... -Mike

OK, just to circle back to this. I took Marlow D12 Max 99 - 2.5mm with a rated Avg Breakload @ 1,100kg / 2,425lbs I made up 4 samples and videotaped...

Links below should work now. Videos are recorded in slow motion, so use your slider bar to fast forward to the breaking point.Edited by mikekrantz on...

If you tie a bowline in any of the 12-strand dyneema lines, it will slip under pressure. However, if you put a couple of drops of splicing fluid (sup...