Recent content by sail28

I'm looking at a trailer for my E29 and am wondering if the keel tray of the trailer is wide enough for my keel. I'm not talking about front to back length, but the width or thickness. The boat is in the water (55 deg f) so I don't really want to dive to measure it and there are no other...

Hi, yeah its a big lake and can get fairly vigorous when its blowing. The other interesting fact, okay two facts, are that due to the shallowness (30' max in the south basin) the water level can change by 2 or three feet when the wind is blowing N or S. Also because of the shallowness, the...

Hi Steve, thanks for the welcome. We're pretty excited (my wife and not so much the 4 kids) about the bigger boat. We have a Viking 28 that only sleeps 4 and the headroom is only about 5 feet, so the E29 will be a vast improvement. We ended up having the boat shipped up by a lowbed...

http://www.johnsboatstuff.com/Articles/best.htm this might be of interest on the subject. I've just bought a E29 out of Racine and am looking forward to sailing it on Lake Winnipeg this summer. I am enjoying the website, thanks. Rick