Recent content by zenpirate

water in the mast step is a good thing. If it gets intothe heull you have a wet hull, which slowly turns your boat into a 300+lbs FatFish. The water is a sign that the step is still sealed. I think "pumping" it out with the mast is a great way to damage your step. Although it does work out...

use goo gone librally to soften the sticky stuff... Then once you have a good mess going, take weightlifting/rock climbing chaulk and rub that in, eventually it will dry it all up and leave it clean and dry.

warm, sunny day... the kind that makes you want to jump into the water anyways. go out and dump the boat over.. pull it back up Make sure your mast is tied down and the bungee is on your board...

I learned a great tripck for tyig your sail on.... tie the sail on to the spar with a pencil in hte way. Tie it on tight, then slide the pencil out and you will have the perfect length.

clips are clips, if you have them and don't care, keep using them... Ties are a little lighter, let the sail move better when you adjust cuningham/outhaul, and let you roll the sail up much cleaner when you remove the upper spar and roll the sail around it. Really the ties are a racing...

f2's method is just fine if you take your boat out every week or so. but if it sits longer of it travels on the road(vibration) the best thing to do is un bolt your top spar from the bottom and pull the spar out of the sail ties and roll the sail around the top spar starting with the head and...

I'm 6'4" and 200 I have my sail in a racing position (halyard 56" on spar) and I can duck it just fine. I tend to catch my head about once a day(usually the first tack after the gun) but then I' know where it is;) Keep in mind I do yoga 3 days a week in order to duck that spar;)

For mem the aging and 'retiring' of the sailing population kind of scares me. I'm 25 and have been sailing on and off my whole life. I was lucky enough to have a father who used to sail, so I was lucky enough to be introduced to it. I've turned on 5- 6 people to sailing through my college...

dude, chill on the "!" your getting me nervous

The rotation of the mast causes stretch in the HAYLARD, not the sheet. My Sailing OCD forced me to correct that. Otherwise fine point. :)

talk to a vinal cutter/ sign shop. They'll make you one. Some school districts have vinal cutters which the technology club uses for fund raising, they'll do it cheap. Yes, I mispelled vinal... I don't knowhow to spell it, and I don't want to go check right now....... vinal vinal vinal!!!

I've never had the problem myself, but I imagine you might be leading up before you tack. Keep your heading on the teltails until you are ready to tack, that will keep you at full speed and will be able to carry through irons easier. Also, try not to tack your nose into the front of a wave.

well, there are alot of sunfish in garages and backyards, too... a moment of silence for our fallen soldiers.

I want to give a WOOT! for tacticat (or as I've begun calling it "tacticrack") seems to be a great tactics simulator, which is exactly what I need. I see very little connection between the boats online and the boats in real life, in so far as they handle, but it automatically keeps track of...

They don't *tear* make racing sails...*sniff sniff* I'd love a company to do what intensity has done for lasers for sunfish. Some good racing sails to use for club racing/practice. that way we can keep a class legal racing sail for a longer period of time. Maybe walmart can start...