P.s that picture is when we were doing our asa104 class and half way to Catalina Island our steering quadrant broke on a Beneteau 40 had to use the emergence tiller all the way back to Long Beach was a good breeze at 20-25 and when the cable snapped it must have hit some wires cause we couldn’t...
I have a “optimist mast float”
It’s 4 liters and you run it up in your sail track along with your sail We use it when she’s blowing good for extra insurance. We have tested in shallow waters and you can try to push the mast under water and she always comes up even with hull to windward. The...
So I put my beloved Capri on Craig’s
I love my boat but I’m saving up for a Capri 22 to put on a mooring here in mission bay. I have all my tackle ready and I’m scouting out for the right boat. And then it happens.
Last Saturday I took a coworker out on the 14 and he hiked out and we both had...
its a 2 to 1 ronstan auto ratchet . We just clipped it in to see how she worked.
Sheeting in is quick but need more power
The main sail is from a c420 from intensity sails.
Was a great morning sail.
Just enough wind to push us along.
The tiller is from rudder craft.
I mounted it atop the stock rudder bracket and we can slide the factory tiller back in when you need the hiking stick. Im not putting an extension on this beautiful tiller. But for low wind lazy days...
I would like to add a question to this also.
Would the occasional freeway bounce hurt the tiller gungions supporting the mast?
I am also looking at making a rear mast support
Intesity sails.
I run a jy15 main withought a boom on light days.
A flying junior sail on heavy days or with kids.
I just purchased a squaretop for a 420
And it fits just fine.
The only thing with using sails cut for other boats is the tack mount. But a little bit of line and thought and...
We got this crazy idea to over canvas saterday.
We had some bran new jy15 sails from intesity sails. Luff 18.4 and foot 8.3
And the jib want all the way up the forestay. We ran boomless and rigged a 2:1 right of the traveler to the clew .
Wind was reported as 5.7 with 7 gust.
Mission bay CA.
It...
Took out my brother and his family.
I was using my bright red flying junior main. You'll notice when the mast comes out of the water how much smaller it is, she is slower but the reduced sail area makes for relaxed fun.
We capsized on purpose to show my brother the ease of righting .
Was a good...
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