Recent content by Fremont

I just looked further, if you are going to be there for a few days, it's probably worthwhile to join! No rental fee! https://www.clearwatercommunitysailing.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=232940&module_id=521766 There are cheap direct flights to PIE from my local airport (RFD), I might take...

Hope you see this in time. Just noticed your post. https://www.clearwatercommunitysailing.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=232940&module_id=521967

I went to a 2:1 since I found my Sunfish more tiring in heavy wind than my Hobie! I have a Harken mini block shackled to a spring clip that slides on the dyneema traveler. Also I use a clove hitch on my sheet behind the boom block (instead of tying it into the boom block eyelet), so the line...

I'm curious if anyone who has opened up their boat for repairs, has reglassed the hole instead of installing a port? If you cut the hole with a good hole saw, it seems like it would be a fairly easy reclosure.

We were in the Apostle Islands, sailing from Outer Island to Sand Bay. Very little wind with a major storm predicted. We were ready to beach on one of the islands along the way

This was the next year (2021). Matt did the Isle Royale trip in 2020, and I contacted him for advice. He invited me to sail with him, and with Nate (the Hobie sailor) on a camp-cruise trip through the Apostle Islands. Matt has a video of that trip. I'm Bob with the blue and white sail. Last year...

We were trying to get off of Lake Superior before the torrential rains and 70 mph winds came. We made it by an hour!

Are you winter sailing in the tropics, in the gulf coast, or the North Atlantic? Different needs. I assume you're not winter sailing in the upper midwest because we have iceboats for that.

We towed 2 Sunnies behind a Hobie a couple of years ago. Rudders down with tillers lashed amidships, daggerboard out.

Matt has a really nice Kokotat drysuit that he scored at a thrift store for stupidly cheap! He's pretty lean, and it fits him well.

Drysuit. Check Wetsuitoutlet. The Gul suits sell for under $400. No comparison between any wetsuit and a drysuit. Make sure you're not looking at diving drysuits, they are a completely different animal. Sailing, kayaking, surfing drysuits are all suitable.

Oh geez. Yeah, this is an issue in "titled" states. I ran into that before when I tried to register an untitled kayak. Illinois just recently relaxed the laws regarding titling small boats. I wonder if I can title your boats in Illinois on a bill of sale, then you can transfer title in...

There's a book, "As Wild As the Wind" (Original more apropos title was "This Book Is Drunk" LOL!) in which James Lee Meadows describes sailing from Miami to Boston on his Sunfish. Mostly drunk and high along the way...it was 1977... He makes a claim of hitting 22 mph on his boat. Did I mention...

Why not? Experimentation is good. If it doesn't work, you can always recut the sail.

I made a winch setup for a car cargo box, but it'd work as well for a boat. Farm and Fleet trailer winch, blocks from Amazon that can be mounted on edge or flat. 1/4" line. Amazon link to pulleys: Amazon.com