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Sailing water access in Brewster, MA > Paul Dierze asks: > Steve, where do you sail in Brewster? Is there open access there? When I am there I end up just sailing in cliff pond in nickerson. I saw the access by the fishing boats but I am looking for other locations. Paul- In addition to...

Perhaps the multiple-scales thing was a bit Rube Goldberg-esque. I realize now that my memory from high-school physics (almost FORTY years ago) has SOME basis in fact: I think that scales in PARALLEL might have achieved what I was looking for. Anyway, using the suggested much SIMPLER scheme...

I've tried weighing my (somewhat waterlogged) Sunfish using a person at each end, standing on a scale. Too precarious and back-unfriendly for my taste, lifting and balancing the hull while squinting at the dials. I also don't always have a ready partner, when I want to weigh. So necessity is...

Thanks for clarifying placement and mounting. I'm still a little unclear on how this 009 Harken hexarachet differs from a plain block (aside from PRICE). What is this about "15:1 holding power"? I can't seem to picture how it could ratchet and HOLD in any useful way unless it also had some kind...

Excerpted from original posting by mike4947 (Muchael Lester - Junior Member): > As for the swivel jam cleat, do not use one unless you like capsizing in anything over 10 knots of wind. When you are hiked out you can not reach high enough to release the mainsheet from the cleat. FIne for no...

Well jeez, I wish I had read that point about the "locked" drain hole, about 12 hours earlier! Today I cut a hole for a 4' inspection port, that I had bought but never installed in my old hull (which broke free from its chain on a Cape Cod beach last fall, never to be seen again). I located...