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Thanks Thank you very much for the suggestion. I should perhaps have mentioned that I have seen people put netting over their cockpits, and it seems like this sorta works (the theory seems to be that it's tippy and the gulls don't like to perch on it), but it makes getting the boat ready to...

Does anyone have a suggestion for keeping gulls off our Capri? We have a buoy on a nearby lake which is infested by gulls, and cleanup before sailing was very time consuming last year because of the quantity of seagull poop and feathers. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. thanks!

Thank you very much! Thank you very much for the helpful advice. I'll try to test out your instructions this Friday!

Any diagnosis suggestions? The boat is pretty old, so it could be the gasket, I suppose. Can you suggest how I might diagnose this? Our boat is currently moored on a lake, and I have a trailer, but the trailer isn't a great work platform for dealing with the centerboard... I was thinking of...

I sail my Capri on a lake that's infested with weeds. The last time we were out, the centerboard stuck and wouldn't go all the way down, leaving us unable to sail into the wind at all well. I suspect that some weeds have been sucked or dragged into the centerboard case, and are causing the...

We have a Capri 14.2 that we keep on a lake with mooring buoys. I realize that it's silly, but I just haven't found a good solution to tying up to these buoys. Originally, I used rope, which I would run through the forward eye at the base of the forestay. This didn't work at all well for...