Recent content by mggrave

Havoc E32-2 Taken on Lewis and Clark Lake in Yankton SD.

looks to me like it is missing another cable that is supposed to attach to the other side of the piece the one is attached to. It also seems like the design of the quadrant must have some type of a gear mounted on it instead of the "triangle" design used with steel cables. Mike HAVOC

A few pictures of the annual Bash to the Colonies event on Lewis and Clark Lake (Yankton, SD) held in August. The race is a for fun event in which hobies and mono-hauls race in classes up the lake and back. All entry fees and donations go to Special Olympics South Dakota. Course is roughly 30...

thanks I kept searching stickers and got overwhelmed with the sticker results. dang search engines being picky on word selections.

My boat name is spelled out in the Code of Signals stickers. I can't seem to find anywhere that sells the stickers or decals, mine are becoming worn and need to be replaced. Does anyone have experience in trying to find these? Thanks, Mike Grave Havoc 32-2 Yankton, SD

lock a boat? You lock your boat? A while back some thieves got in the marina and stole some tools out of boats. They stole maybe a hundred or two dollars worth of tools and caused over that in damage to the hatch trying to get in. After that no one at the marina even tries to lock their...

Winches winches and more winches! I have 4 winches on the mast, 2 on top of the cockpit, 4 for sheet lines in the cockpit. I can have 6 halyards excluding the rolling furler. The boat is set up to run as a cutter, I have a stay sail that can run between my head sail and main really helps...

Below are pictures of the winches attached to my mast. As you can see I also have halyards (1/3, and 2/3 up the mast) running back to the cockpit. The winches on the mast are used to run the 4 halyards off the top of the mast. Hope this helps. Mike Grave Havoc 32-2 Yankton, SD

I'm not sure how my winches are mounted to my mast, but I have 4 of them mounted on the mast and can run 6 halyards with 2 being ran to the cockpit. I will be at the boat tonight and will try to remember to take some pictures of the setup. It is somewhat complicated to determine what is going...

When I learned to dock my 32' I was told only pull into the slip as hard as your willing to hit something. That being said I've had some days where you point at the slip and allow the boat to drift and time your run to get the bow in, once the bow is in its for the most part uneventful. Most...

I am sailing on Lewis and Clark Lake. In the years I have been around SD I have heard that it is one of the best sailing lakes around, don't have anything to compare it to but it is nice that the lake runs east and west and we normally have north/south winds.

I would first like to thank everyone that posts on this site, it has been a very benificial tool for me. I am relatively new to sailing and just bought my first monohaul sailboat a 1974 Ericson 32-2 Havoc a good project boat. This site has really helped me in fixing the boat, so far I have...

I have the same problem with all three of my hatches on my '74 32-2. I am hoping not to have to take all of them off as they are all wood and lots of teak plugs to deal with. :esad: Mike Grave Havoc Ericson 32-2 Yankton SD

Static/Dock tensioning I have a 32-2 and need to adjust the shrouds as I am fixing my Mast Step and I know the side stays/shrouds are not tensioned correctly. I am curious if anyone knows where to find the guidelines or suggestions for dock tensioning for side stays and back stays for the...