Recent content by RedHerring

Few things I learned by helping a pro do it on my E35-2: 1. It was fairly easy to lift my old Yanmar diesel out of the cabin and onto the dock using the boat's own boom and a chain hoist. The biggest piece of work that day was disconnecting the thing from all the wires and hoses that are...

According to the rigger, the weak link there is actually the foil, which consists of several lengths of aluminum profile. Supposedly, the way they are joined together is known to fail catastrophically under stress (as in "can't furl in or lower the sail at the exact moment when you really...

That would be nice. I'm mainly interested to see where on the boat did you attach that block. Have an inner stay with a storm jib, been running under that thing alone for three days going past Cape Mendocino on the way from Washington to California. You definitely need a way to sheet it inside...

My current furler is an early generation Harken, late 1980s vintage. The rigger who made my new stays and shrowds three years ago told me to replace it sooner than later. > I would not go offshore shorthanded without a thoroughly reliable roller-furler. Yup. I have, and here I am, working on...

Best jib/spinnaker setup on a bluewater cruising 35-2 I'm getting my 35-2 ready for more ocean sailing, some of which is going to be upwind. What I have: * an ancient and unreliable roller furler that I need to either replace or get rid of (leaning towards "replace") . * a genoa which is...

Exactly. :)

Thanks. One idea I haven't tried yet is to run with a poled out genoa on one side and poled out spinnaker on the other. Using the boom as a pole for the latter. Should work for conditions when there is not enough apparent wind to fill the main.

We saw both. At some point someone said "there's too many whales, they must be up to something". At that point in time, we had 5 of them (humpbacks the size of the boat) within a hundred yards, including two not more than a hull length away. I've also seen one jumping completely out of the...

Thanks a lot for the reply. Can you please elaborate on something I either don't believe, or more likely don't understand in here? You said to keep the main up until overpowered. The way I see it, this boat has a pretty big foretriangle, almost like a true cutter. 135 genoa is larger than the...

My context is short- or singlehanded ocean cruising, majority of which is going downwind. The sails I've got are main, 135% genoa, a conservatively-sized (I'd say, 120% of J) asymmetric chute and a storm jib on its own stay. Have a J-sized spinnaker pole. So far, for true winds from 10 to 20...

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Is there any place I could try to get a rudderpost head for E35-2 from? You may also think of it as the emergency tiller fitting in the cockpit. The one I have, a chunk of it is missing, which is supposed to limit how far the rudder will turn. --Alex P.S. One of those moments that calls for...

Just before selling the boat to me, PO bought a storm jib and installed a removable inner stay for it. What he didn't do was figure out a proper sheeting arrangement. Going upwind with storm jib and heavily reefed main, the jib sheeted through a block anywhere on the rail doesn't fill anywhere...

Continuation of the story (Ericson 35-2, occasional loud knocking noise from the rudder when sailing hard). Hauled the boat, fixed the rudder tip, checked play. Almost no movement at the lower end (I'd say at the lower bearing, but I don't see any bearings there, looks like it's just...

Where on the boat would you put it?