Are you sure they are carbon fiber? The ones I've seen look like glass. I was in the middle of a downwind beach landing a few weeks ago and one of m...

if your trap set up pulls up on the ring with a shock cord, you shouldn't have any issue with it falling off. I slide my butt over the edge of the hu...

No, no. I was just trying to describe the system with the halyard in the mast since you said you weren't sure how that worked. I would certainly mai...

If this is the case there are a couple of possiblities that I can think of, none of which involve putting the halyard back into the mast (not sure how...

Bag - the guy that sells bags on ebay (colorado bag co or something like that) used to make a really good one. He's since taken suggestions from sail...

IPA all day.

You might try putting snap shackles on the top of the rope ladder, and hooking it to the trapeze hooks on the windward side. No idea if it would work...

Zoomed out, although not a great perspective:

Wolf - The 18 has a different system than the 18-2, which is what has the 4-way. The 18 you set and forget with a single line going between the jib b...

i have moved the jib blocks out a smidgen and might try a bit further out, (to reduce the backwinding) and forward (as the top tell tale still breaks ...

that jib needs the blocks in that position, close to the boats centre. (the previous owner of mine moved the blocks to the hulls to free up some tramp...

Run the jib 'travelers' under the tramp except for between the two slots.

I guess every boat has a personality and you have to deal with it. Could it possibly be that your hulls are toed in on the front beam? Actually ther...

ummm.... i've never been that close to a pitchpole on my 5.2 and i had the mast almost straight up, but i guess i'm pretty light and on a lake there a...

Nah, if I were to use carbon, I'd just use the aluminum as a mandrel. No point in keeping it in there.

Hey for interests sake what is the wall thickness on the stock boom? I never think about it when I'm at the cottage and I don't have a caliper out the...

I think the 2" x .125 is overkill, but that's probably the way to be sure. I've got a 2" tube, though, and it sure seems big. I'll try again with 1....

Yep, its why I built a new one. It looks like someone dented the center of it at some point, and put some .25" aluminum plates inside to reinforce it...

damonAdmin wrote: If you can go ahead and buy a quality boat box it will last for a long time and keep your stuff safe. You can move it from boat to b...

unlike the NACRA which threatened me with a pitch-pole any time I started haulin. My 5.2 is extremely sensitive to mast rake in this regard. One no...

I use these: br /> with 5/16" shock cord. They're huge hooks but do a great job and you can fairly easily undo them when you need to.

kbugel wrote: Make sure you have the end caps in place befor torquing the straps down. If you don't, there is a very good chance you will take the be...

Uh, no, it always goes down the jib luff on a P18.

You want to use the hog rings on this and not a knot, b/c the whole mess has to slide inside the luff zipper of the jib, and a knot doesn't go through...

I have a standard knotted righting line that I hang off of. I also use a snap shackle to clip my righting bag to it. I use a block to get a 3:1 purc...

I just redid my beam straps, and went over the 16-18 lb-ft of recommended torque by a bit, and it closed the slot in my front beam on both sides, so t...

Some lines > 3/8" will have trouble staying in a cleat just due to their size. You might need to re-reeve the main sheet though. How was it getting ...

Two things I found that made a pretty big difference with a hook/ring main setup: Make sure that the sheave at the top of the mast is truly round. Mi...