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Several months I posted a thread titled 'How to get my Capri upside down?' I also used the forum to ask several other questions about repairing my Capri's bottom. Organization members provided me a ton of help, so in the interest of giving back a little, here you can find pictures of the job I...

I need to get my PFDs to be legal on the water, but I'm wondering what I should buy. First, this is probably a stupid question, but I assume that we at the very least must have what all boats must have.... 1 PFD per crew and at least 1 throwable. Is that correct? Second, in all the photos...

My boat is still in the repair yard. I did make it down to MB and watched for a while on Sunday. Looked like about 25 - 30 boats and a ton of wind. But I'm suprised there is nothing posted yet about the event. Who won? How did it all turn out?

I'm going to need new sails sometime soon. I see North Sails, Quantum Sails, and Scott Sails on the Links page. Looks like roughly $1100 at North and Quantum and a little under $1000 at Scott. I'm curious what owners from the various makers out there think. PS. Anyone have an old / used...

I need to get my newly acquired, previously kept in the water, Capri upside down so I can strip the bottom paint. My trailer can be tilted, so my plan was to try to slide the boat off the traler, stand it on end long enough to spin it around then lower back on to the trailer topside down...

Can anyone give me the quick and dirty rundown on what is involved with removing bottom paint? I just bought a new Capri, but it's been kept in the water. I thought I could just take it to a boatyard for a couple hunderd dollars, but I was just told that the job is so labor intensive that it...

I just purchased a 1995 Capri. Sadly it's been kept in the water for most of its life, but at least the owner religously kept up with the bottom paint. I now plan to have the bottom paint removed and have the boat live on dry land for the rest of its days. But will the water it has likely...