Damon Thanks for this. It is a significant commitment of time and resources and it is much appreciated.

They sure look like a lot of fun. Maybe this one with the retractable foils will work for us shallow water sailors. We fight the tide and a shallow ba...

Don't get me wrong. We all have to have our favorites and our nemesis's. I love to watch the Patriots, but I want to see someone else win! Even this ...

My 2 cents worth: The America's Cup is a great opportunity to introduce more people to the sport. I was at Navy Pier last year (or year before) for so...

Anyway to "marry" the line to a wire, like using an electric snake?

Yep, when will I learn Hopefully it provided some amusement along the way

mothers??? Where did that come from. S/B there are plenty of good boats... Beardless??? Again, when will I learn spellcheck. S/B board less

Often times these type of threads break down along party lines. Most of us love what we own/sail. For what it's worth, I would look at the Supercat 17...

There are a couple of different sets on the classified section here, and of course, you can advertise the need under the "wanted" area of the classifi...

Condolences to Mary and his family. His book inspires me still

Clar MN3 wrote: total weight was about 8 lb thanks for the info! total weight? - shipping weight? materiel weight? or weight of pieces that were...

For what it is worth: I bought a 47" x 86" sheet and total weight was about 8 lbs. I don't think this material will absorb a lot of water, but can't t...

fxloop wrote: Where do you guys source the long adhesive backed astroturf material? All i can find are the 37' X 58" strips. Is smooth, diamond, ridge...

So after finding out about hydro turf on this site, I decided to try it on (over) another deck repair on a sunfish clone I worked on over the last mon...

Just validating what others here have stated. A number of years ago, some degenerate released our Hobie 16's dock lift while it was unattended. We had...

Haven't owned larger displacement boat in years, but spent 10 years owning and sailing on the west coast. If you have friends, family and others that ...

Gotta weigh in here as I have some experience in exactly this. Had some deck repair to a Sunfish that I didn't feel like painting over, and thought it...

I use West System ALOT. Have a sail club with about 25 monohulls (mostly Sunfish) and about 8 cats. I've become the resident repair guy. I've noticed ...

A few years back I bought a hobie 14 turbo with an oversized jib - read hooter. I won't mention from who as he is a regular on this site. BTW, wasn't ...

tnell The SC15 is definitely my favorite of all time I understand why you would want it 🙂 These are great boats. Hard to pitch pole, really stable, f...

Yes, give a shout out to Tom at Aquarius, he can clarify. Could be simply that the boat production overlapped a year, etc... My 15 only has the tag ri...

Re the winch I don't trailer my boat much, as it sits, mast up, on the beach. However I do winch it up the beach. I mounted a winch (hand crank) on a ...

We have several (9) cats in our little beach community. Oldest sailor is 70. All the owners are over 50. I'm almost 58 and we all sail weekly (or more...

+1, etc... Go buy this boat. Great boats for a host of reasons. I've never understood the wet boat comment about Supercat. I get wet on every cat I've...

Shroud extenders are typical on Supercats, in particular. They have an extra wire on lower part of the shroud that is connected to a "caming device" s...

OK, so put new tape on the bridles this weekend. All I could readily find was an old cassette of a Stephen King movie music track. That was a crazy sc...

I like the quality. Plastic parts look to be carbon loaded plastic. Sturdy bracket. The bail is cast and I can't really tell what its made of, but it ...

So I was able to get out for a very poor sail this Sunday, but didn't care (much) that the wind was almost non-existent as I wanted to try out the Sky...

Damon, Yes indeed - a lot more interest than I thought, but pleased as can be with all the interest, ideas and a few controversies. This continues to ...

I know, I know. However, every now and then I love it when a product looks like it will do exactly what is needed. But like most of us, I do not have...