I have a large cross-tramp bag... mesh all the way across with a piece of Harbor Freight floor pad across the bottom to give it enough stiffness to pu...

your experience sounds terrible It got my attention, certainly. The road rash from crashing out the bike in a different leg of the same race was worse...

MN3 wrote: my biggest issue has always been on the wire it chokes me... i have solved that with a 2' thin bungie accross my lifejacket. i can complet...

GREAT write-up. As I sat here at work, for a few minutes, I was on the water. THANKYOU.

I picked this thread to update because it had the best anchor information of a few threads I looked at... there's not a lot of value in starting yet-a...

Hmm... when one has to consider the windage of one's anchor, perhaps the anchor is too large? :p Looking at their instructions, I think I could pin ...

Another good thread:

This was the closest I could find to an existing thread with 'anchor' in the title... and there's a lot of practical anchoring information in the thre...

NICE first boat! ...the tiller assembly is a little rough (rudder kick-up system is in good shape with the exception of some delaminating of the rudd...

The key seems to be to 1.) keep the mast on the trailer and 2.) avoid point-loading the luff track... I was prowling Ebay and found a steel prop that ...

I definitely clicked through to see the Sprint 750... and that isn't that bad a price for a trailerable boat with that kind of speed capability. Large...

MN3 wrote: They make amazing trailer-able trimarans that you can have a head, berth, kitchen, etc they are fast and fun and can be as high performanc...

I've eye-balled that boat a few times on CL. Interesting solution... but water-locked without a custom-tilt trailer. I looked at a 23'x13' Jones Bri...

I bought a bunch of plastic thimbles. I had a hard time finding them in the tiny dyneema sizes I had on hand, but they are easy to find for 1/8 and ab...

The Getaway makes sense, the rotomolded hulls are pretty sturdy. Weight capacity may be an issue. "Very shallow" may rule out anything with daggerboa...

I think this is a different boat... this one is in Northern California, and doesn't have much info listed (same orange, but then again, it was the 70s...

Moving air is life, and folding a suit and stuffing it into a drawer is death. I use a scrap of rope, two chunks of 2" PVC, and a 45-degree fitting to...

I haven't seen 180 pounds in long enough not to be able to comment on that... it should work, though. I use the Murray's bag, which leaked a fair bit...