Recent content by ConchyDug

I looked at them but decided their footprint was too large for what they are... a fuse holder. They do indicate when the fuse is blown but so do dead circuits. I like Victron products but I think some of it just overcomplicates a 12v system. I used a MRBF fuse bar for my distribution. Here is a...

Lasers are feeder boats for foiling Moths, Lasers also have Grand Master(age 55-64), Great Grand Master(age 65-74), and Legend(age 75+) classes, maybe in 20yrs Moths will too. A lot of classes have the same age divisions, just last week the yacht club my wife is the sailing director of was...

Y'all I can't roll my eyes any harder than I am right now. The AC foiling boats vs displacement boats argument is one those obnoxious yacht club bar conversations that's so tired. SailGP was fun to watch during COVID but somehow is pretty stale now... maybe because I can actually go race now...

Like Afrakes you need to use a heat gun to get high strength Loctite to release. If I remember right it's around the 350-500°F mark. One drop is all you need don't coat the entire thread area or you'll have a bad time.

Man what are y'all smoking in those wooden pipes, cracking me up. Y'all realize there are tons of other boat manufacturers besides Hunter and Catalina? I'm guessing most of y'all have never been on a keelboat that can plane and I'm not talking about surfing waves. Here is a link to a video with...

Olson 34 modern... compared to what? I mean I guess for the 80's it was high tech, kind of a dinosaur now if you compare it to modern racer/cruisers which the modern Hunters and Catalinas are not racer/cruisers. The Olson's are more comparable to Schock, Hobie, Express, S2, the Beneteau First...

Oh is this where the old men hang out and hate on new things like a VFW?:rolleyes: Heck at least the Catalina boats have elliptical rudders and have more usable waterline. Hallberg-Rassy had an article not long ago illustrating the benefits of wide sterns it would be enlightening for y'all. I'm...

Dyneema strops seem like an improvement could just use a padeye for positioning/holding the strop where you want it on the boom. I did a Google search a few weeks ago looking at mainsheet arrangements that we wanna try to on a Henderson 30 and came across several Olson mainsheet set ups that are...

The Multiplus 3kw is pretty awesome, the Cerbo stuff is neat but didn't seem like a worthwhile investment since the Victron wireless dongle pretty much pushes all the same info to a tablet/phone, plus most of the Victron stuff has Bluetooth integrated into them. The Multiplus has a ton of...

It's called banjo'n or jumping it's pretty common in racing for the foredeck crew. My wife and I double hand as well, I banjo the furler if conditions are chill, meaning I go forward sit on the anchor locker and suck it in, wife handles wheel, sheet, furling line. It's a risk going forward so...

I'd probably check the furling blocks/deck hardware for friction they don't last forever. When I bought my boat the first block back from the furling drum had crushed torlon bearings which made furling very difficult. You couldn't tell from a visual inspection only from loading the block up and...

They make high temp liquid sealant for pipe threads works about 1000 times better than Teflon tape.

$39k? Hell no at that price. That is overpriced. 25yr old sails are toast, sure you can sail with them but they are bagged out and you'll probably find out real quick what UV exposure over 25yrs has weakened on them, those safety lines are toast and not safe, most racing safety requirements...

For sure just drill those rivets out and slap the end you want in. Boats over say 35' usually have socket end poles for the higher loads but the jaw ends work, just don't get too wild with hot reaching a sym kite. I have a jaw end on my mast side and it's held up, but I quit using sym kites like...

I cleat the nylon rode outside the anchor roller directly to a cleat then snub using a pusik 6-8' down the rode which gets attached to the other cleat. Nothing loaded runs thru or over the roller. It looks like a Y bridle viewed from above but nothing passes thru the roller. For retrieval you...