Recent content by Bill Robart

John, Most Ericsons are considered to be a bit tender and the owners tend to subscribe to the idea of "reef early and reef often". I owned an E-25 for many years and used to reef the main with the 150% genny at about 13-15 kts, remove the genny for the 90% working jib at 16-18 kts or so...

Ed, Rebuilding the pump is fairly easy, but, it depends on the brand of pump as to whether you should bother. A new Oberdorfer pump in somewhere around $120. The rebuild parts for some of the other pumps can run nearly that much. Parts for the Oberdorfer are available from John...