Soft shackles. 3mm dyneema. Easy to make; you don't need to tie a proper diamond knot, a really good granny knot will hold fine-my trap lines are atta...

The michigan race sounds awesome. Just be careful who you invite-might want to make the first to finish buy the rounds for the day!!! It is sad to se...

8mm is the max for mainsheet line. I've been told some of the teams are running 5mm line in the Harken GP blocks. Atlas 330 Gloves:

That pricing may have been from the last Worrell in 2002, fixed the math for you: Early Entry Fee [del]$1,000.00[/del] $2000.00 Required Insurance (L...

4 boats registered....

That's great, expect for the bit of aerosolized MEKP...that's a good way to go blind.

That's great, expect for the bit of aerosolized MEKP...that's a good way to go blind.

If you're re-spraying the whole boat, you are looking at a good deal of work. You can shoot new gelcoat over old with just a rough sanding on the exis...

Have you rolled and tipped perfection before?? I can tell you no time is saved vs. spraying gelcoat. With paint you have three options: 1) Spray gelc...

I'm betting the deck is soft in that location from repeated landing by the skipper. I would check with the original owners and Matt McDonald-might be ...

Yes, I have done this to convert a 3 patch bag to a 2 patch bag (my preference, faster hoists and similar douse times). You need more like 3 or 4 extr...

The Miracle 20 is a pretty clean and fast boat upwind. Competitive with the newest tech. Adding a furling kite reduces upwind performance. A SNU gener...

This thread is relative to the F18...a F18 on a reach can be a scary thing...I do it regularly so would welcome the course and it is used at the World...

The F16 does tick off a lot of boxes but for me doesn't cut it on the racing front as its hard to get a fleet together. If someone is interested, ther...

Fortunately the F18 isn't a dead boat society thanks to the support of Nacra and Goodall in the states! Hobie had a good thing going with the Tiger in...

Yes I know 5#'s = 5 psi; definitely enough to find the leaks, my point was the mast can probably take a good deal more (I have a lot of experience wit...

Ding ding. Carbon is pretty dang strong in tension and you are simply applying an even amount of tensile force to the inside of your mast. It could li...

gahamby wrote: What does the manufacturer recommend for a bedding compound on a carbon mast? I like 3M 5200 but I'm bedding stainless steel fittings o...

martin_langhoff wrote: Good advice on materials thanks! True -- at ~82Kg I am too light to right it solo, but with crew and meeting the prescribed w...

When I sealed my A-Cat mast I used 5200 or maybe 4200. I tend to interchange them depending on what is open at the time-don't get me started on how th...

The wooden wedge suggestion seems best. I'm not sure where you're going to run a power tool without damaging the beam (really bad) or hull (repairable...

I find it a touch ironic that Nacra developed solutions for both the Prindle and older Nacra 5.2/5.5/5.8 line back in the day but neglected to impleme...

upwind, no argument from me that it isn't the best (or lowest cost) system; they would be better to make the tiller arms straight or with only one ben...

Brand was hydroturf, if Bach is a dealer go through him. There is a european brand that is cheaper and it looks it (older eXploders shipped with it...

Haha you must be joking right? The build quality has come up on newer boats sure (Hobie is pretty high, Nacra is good as are others) but there is stil...

upwindhacker, that is absolutely 100% correct, and I agree its not the best design. The plus side is once you have it locked in its solid, but the dow...

My experience with the mat cutter was pretty mediocre (I used the xacto brand one as I've had good luck with there products in the past). There is pro...

The Nacra Urethane system doesn't bind and has no slop (or very very little). The eXploder setup can bind at the extremes of tiller movement so you le...

The C2 is a little flat forward and tends to get beat up in chop and the light stuff as a result. The fatter daggerboards were also a contributing fac...

When the boom on your superyacht is big enough to swallow a person, you might be trying to compensate for something!!!