Recent content by Mike Thomas

I hate to sell her but.... For sale. A well cared for E-29, many extras. Midnight Blue Awlgrip, 2 coats of Trinidad SR this spring. Rigged for racing but comfortable for cruising. A very dependable and safe boat. She’s solid, dry and rigged with all the extras. All the bright work is in...

Glen When you say first time. Do you mean on a sailboat or the specific boat that you now have? Normally you should try to keep the boat head to wind with the engine running when you are raising your sails. This will take the wind's pressure off of them. Sorry if that is to basic...

Randy Normally I do have the anchor light on for safety reasons. I could look up and probably should but I tend to point by feel, observe the knot meter and sail shape as I usually sail by myself or one other inexperienced crew. Not looking to the masthead is just a lazy habit I need to...

Correction - Nate Hanson pointed me in the right direction. Mike T

Thanks all, It's always the simple things we overlook and Treilley pointed me in the right direction. Because the races are usually at night I use the instruments and not the Windex. Making the mistake to only rely on what the instrument says and never bother to actually look up the mast in...

All, I'm starting to actually care about where I finish in the Thursday night beer cans (for those of that know me, no laughing please). I did notice something interesting last timeout. The boat points much higher on a port tack than it does on stbd. The rig was tuned with a loos pro...

Thanks for the recent answers all. Actually, my original post was on 5-24-06 and I have since fixed the problem. It was the exhaust and over this winter I installed a water lift. Now she's quiet as a kitten, putts slow like a Harley and I have 30% more power. I actually like the way the...

Faust Congratulations on buying the best boat you'll ever own and welcome to the board. I’ve been contemplating the same project for years and the prevailing method is to drill access holes in the head liner so you can install backing plates and access the nuts. Then put white plastic caps...

Mr. Kahuna I use that foam mesh they sell as kitchen draw liners in most any "home store". It works great, non-slip. Mike T 76-E29

All, Why can't Tim use a high tech running rigging line. It looks like the breaking strength is about the same of SS cable, you get a choice of colors and it's easy to splice or knot? Sta-Set X Size Weight Tensile lbs/100' g/m lbs kg 3/16" 1.2 17.9 1,600 726...

Steve, Good luck! My last boat was painted and I swore that I would never own a painted boat again. Well that didn't work out and my E-29 has Awlgrip. Everyone said "it's not paint it's Awlgrip" The big problem with Awlgrip is there is no way to repair it. You can't buff it out and the...

Install Lazy Jacks. It may not be essential for everyone but it is for me this spring. "Keep the bow heading into the wind", “I AM keeping it in the wind captain @*!!$@”! (repeat as necessary) I can't afford to have that conversation again this season:headb: . Thanks Guy... Mike T

See, logical and practical Thanks Loren

Nice job on both. I rebuilt my boom 2 winters ago and used thickened West Epoxy to fill holes and fair everything out. Before the rebuild the boom looked like Swiss cheese. There had been hardware moved all around it. Now it's nice and clean. The epoxy is a little tough to sand by hand but...

DC27 Below are picture of the two mounts, once I get the mast back up and the vang mounted, I'll take some better overall shots. Another nice thing is that because Garhauer makes it to your specs, I didn't have to change the hatch.. Mike T