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I'm short and fat and old with no upper body strength, so I have problems righting also. I take the painter line and throw it around the daggerboard and sort of inch it part of the way up the daggerboard then loop my hands on the line, put my feet on the side of the hull and use my weight to...

Currently looking at a bunch of catalina 22's, a holder 20 and a capri 18. The holder is tempting as I could dry sail it, and it's race able, but no cabin to speak of, roller furler not allowed. The capri 18 is in excellent shape with a good cabin, roller furler, but too heavy for my little...

Brass whistle, some kind of drink bottle, a pair of padded shorts, waterproof music speakers, oh wait, that's my Christmas list!!

I love my Buttercup, and have sailed her every chance I can, but...I've recently been out on some bigger boats, sunset cruising, racing, and I'm just starting to think about getting Buttercup a bigger sister that I could take hub and pup out for sunset and cooler weather sailing. And I had as...

So you got me thinking about plastic pipe, wonder if I could slide wooden dowels thru about 6 to 10 pipes and somehow tie the dowels together, making a rolling mat. I could somehow attach it to the dock, then pull and roll it up those pipes. Any suggestions on this or if there is anything like...

I currently have my boat on a yacht club dock, deep water. I have to pull my boat up about 10 inches, and drag it over the edge, which is metal and wood. I've been laying down carpet, and using some pulleys, but any other ideas? I don't like scraping the bottom every time I pull it out, and I...

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I painted ez poxy at about those temps, with 2 coats primer, and gave it 4 days hardening time. It painted on with no problem, but it has not been as bulletproof as I had hoped. I've already dinged it several times on my few times out. And may I present a little Miss SIU Buttercup...

The surgeons knot as shown in the thread works perfect, thanks

What kind of knot, a square knot with thin line pulls out right away:mad:

Getting close! Neighbor gave me this tiller extension/hiking sticky off one of his many old boats. Is this usable and if so, how do I get this embedded screw of of the original tiller handle, or do I have to cut off the handle and redrill a hole?:eek:

So, three coats of easy poxy primer on, with sanding between each coat. I still have some pock marks. Will the easy poxy paint fill those in, or should I go back to marine tex? Or am I being too picky on a 40 yr old boat, will she always look a certain age, like me, no matter how much lipstick...

First coat of easypoxy primer, before and after, I'll let it dry tonight then sand and 2nd coat tomorrow. It filled a lot of the spider cracks, but I still have some pinholes. Mistakes made, should have worn gloves, and should have shook the paint, and stirred a lot more first. I poured some...

I may try that, when does the painting start and what are you using? My primer and easypoxy should be here today. I need to do some more sanding, then acetone and taping off the alum trim. I'll post a pic of before and after.

Can I mix yellow and semi gloss easypoxy white to get a lighter yellow?

I just finished a keelboat sailing class, my only thought's are why would someone sail a keelboat when you could be out on a sunfish???

Hull ID looks like a 74 I had to sand off some bottom paint to find it. So the hull had been painted. I've sanded most of that off, do I need to sand all of it off before I repaint? Then I don't know what to do about the cracks in the cockpit, and how to repaint the cockpit? This has been...

Here's the two, the one behind the coaming, and the one in the cockpit. I'm having difficulties reading the serial number on the transom, looks pretty beat up. Why did you want to see this?

Let the fun begin! It had been stored over 10 years, looks to be in pretty good shape, but really dirty, full of leaves and spiders, mast is straight, tiller is very good, daggerboard has some splits and a loose screw , like me. Has an old metal bailer, coaming is good. May be a little heavy...

So, I watched the videos and today was light air day. Found out I am waiting too long to start my move to the other side, that I need to start before I tack, not after and that I can sort of do a knee down pivot bum, rather than a squat push if that makes sense. Also learned that I can make my...