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Measure your travelor height from the top of the transom. It sounds like yours is waaaay too low. Also, your mast is raked forward instead of back so you need to lengthen your forestay until you get 22'2" from the top of the mast to the top of the transom. You measure that by attaching a...

Another thing you could try is replacing the brass rear eye bolt for the centerboard bungee cord, with a matching stainless bolt. I've used that setup without problems for the past few years.

Hey Markjojosh, That eye at the stern near your strap attachment is where you connect your bungee for the centerboard!! How are you keeping the centerboard down if you aren't currently using that eye? Just curious. Also, one way to keep the boat from blowing sideways when you're...

I heard a good one the other day. How about "All Clear"?

Hi All, Now that my boat has been used for three seasons I decided to bring it home and see what I could do to make sure the bottom was smooth. I didn't try turning it over due to a lack of manpower but I was able to fashion a two by four with a glove on one end to hold the boat up off...

I agree with Ed, while racing the only good place for the pole seems to be the floor unfortunately. I plugged my whisker pole by a different method. I took off both ends and drove in two caps from small water bottles liberaly covered in silicone sealant. The caps are a press fit into the tube...

Sailing can be fun but not this day. Hi All, I decided to take a camping/sailing trip with my little Hobie monocat up on top of my VW bug the summer before starting college in 1973. It was my first sailboat and I wanted to have a little fun with it so I drove up to Panguitch lake in Southern...

As far as I can tell from looking at your picture, you have the standard Catalina sails with their roller furling setup. For daysailing they are fine but for racing you should at least get the hardware to switch over to the hank on jib.

You can't use your old forestay because it needs to be shorter to compensate for the length of the roller furler which becomes part of the overall length. When I went from roller to hank on jib I got a new forestay with the top tang already attached for use with a regular jib.

I will be there. I also know that four others from our lake have reservations at a local hotel down there for nationals so there should be five boats coming from Mission Viejo.

The part you'll get from Dwyer is the bare extrusion. You would need to attach your spreaders at the precise locations plus all other hardware. I'm not sure if the bare mast even comes with the slots milled in for attaching your boom. There would be no holes pre-drilled for locating...

Art, the other drawback would be jib sheets too short to use a whisker pole which is essential for racing. I don't do much day sailing since racing is sooooo much more fun!:cool:

Once while out single handing a pretty fierce wind came up. It blew so hard that while beating to windward I actually got blown back to a beam reach and had to release my main all the way to keep from going over. Since I was alone I couldn't also release the jib and with just the jib alone the...

I think Dwyer does make the Catalina masts but at $20 a foot you're going to spend $400 from them for a bare mast and I think Catalina sells one complete for about $500 and change.

Actually, it's pretty easy out on the water with a little wind.....;)

You probably have a mod III which means you will have a single line going down the floor on the port side of the CB. As you look forward to below the hatch you will have a pulley/block on the left and a little loop just to the right. Take your line and put a knot in one end and feed it into...

Hi Linda, I didn't see if you mentioned what model you have? I've seen a mod II with controls on both sides for raising and lowering the centerboard but on my mod III there is a single line on the port side of the floor that goes up in front of the board. Please let us know what type you have.

Hi All, I'm wondering why Catalina lengthened the spreaders on the newer boats and how does this affect sailing characteristics? Also, I've noticed that there is an adjustment on the spreaders of my Mod 3 to allow them to be swept forward or back. How does that affect sailing?

Hi All, I finally got a chance to do some informal Wednesday night racing with a couple of lido 14s and another Capri 14.2 and if I sailed in the same wind as those guys I was able to keep up. One thing I noticed, since this was the first time sailing in light air with the new c/board...

Thanks Ed, I'm always keeping an eye out for ways to improve!