Recent content by RHenegar

A few years back I had to do some work on my E32 keel bolt. Somewhere I got 350 lbft of torque on my boat. Surprised the Markeel couldnt tell you.

I is deployed from the cockpit. The system is rigged like a standard lazyjack with the main lines running through a block about half way up the mast and down through another block back to the cockpit. When the system is stowed the main ring that joins to lines of the lazy jack is attached to a...

EZ Jack System My E32 came with an EZ Jack System. This is essentially a Lazy Jack system that can be retracted back along the boom. The retracted lines are clipped into a quick release device. The two lines that tension the jack lines are run back to the cockpit and tied off on cleats. When I...

I had an incident happen to me several years ago that I thought I would share. Sailing my E32-3 in the Gulf of Mexico, I was close hauled on starboard tack in a fair amount of wind, so the boat was heeled over pretty good. After about 30 minutes on that tack I notice the bilge covers popping up...

A friend of mine here in Houston has and E32-3 (Little Bit o Sol) that he installed a 2 blade folding prop on. He loved it. Said he had good power forward and reverse. Don't know the maker. I don't think he had to do any thing special to install, but can't be sure. He was always busting on me...

Tighten Keel Bolts. Here is a photo of the rusted keel nut.

Tighten Keel Bolts I had the same issue on my "87 E32. Upon inspection I found that the nut on the forward keel bolt was rusted out. That bolt is difficult to see as it sit in the bilge in front of the mast so there is no direct access to it. You have to go in through the inspection port in...

I know that boat. I did HMR for about 15 years in a row on E34 ProReNata, but the owner sold that boat.

My friend Mike Clark. E-38 Seahorse We did HMR last year on his boat. The 2nd leg 26NM dead up win, had me swearing I would never do another HMR. But bad memories fade in 12 months.

I did last weeks on my friends E38. We were last to the first mark. Passed about 8 boats downwind and beam reach legs before we hit the finish. But I have similar experiences on my E32. I'd be interested in talking to your friend. Maybe I have a loose connection between the helmsman seat and...

So if you are hitting your target, what would be the angle for your bearing to the mark?

Your 54o and 108o number are exactly what I came up with, so I concluded that I am making about 6o of leeway on a close reach to get me to 120o. That seems like alot. To get to a tack angle of 90o, AWA would have to be around 28o with all other factors excluding leeway being the same. My...

I brought this up on another thread, but I thought I would start a new thread on this topic. I am looking for feedback, particularly for shoal draft E32 (my boat) and E38s. Here is the typical scenario: On a close hauled starboard tack with the sails trim in hard and telltales flowing, COG...

Wind angle vs true tacking angle I have been crewing on a friends E38 with a shoal draft. The boat isn't tender, but it also doesn't seem to point as well as a lot of boat. In a race last fall on a long upwind leg we made 15 tacks. I measure the tack angles off of the GPS track and the...

My E32-III has a 4' 4" draft. I do some around the buoy racing and some offshore racing and I am convinced that the boat doesn't point all that well. I believe that the deeper keel would perform noticeably better. On a good day my boat will tack through about 115 degrees COG. When the wind is...