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Scott Dufour

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  1. I do something similar with the mizzen, and use my extendable boat hook as a wisker pole for the main so I don't have to go forward. Very useful.
  2. I've had terrible luck with anything oil-based under epoxy- the epoxy just doesn't like to cure. I've had good luck with water-based. Not an exhaustive study, but consistent...
  3. Back to the "how to get the centerboard out" discussion: to get under Rocinante, I just pull/push her off the trailer onto the grass and roll her on a gunnel with a 2x4 to keep her from going too far over if necessary. It allows me to paint her bottom, check the centerboard, install a half-round back to the keel... I wouldn't leave her on her gunnel for months at a time, but to make necessary repairs, why not?
  4. I don't know about you, Kyle, but every time I go for the "cool factor", I end up replacing the first "c" with an "f"!
  5. Did Ray just say he was looking to buy a motor?
  6. Is there a website anybody knows of that explores different pop-top designs, with their strengths and weakness, and all that juicy stuff?
  7. In a brief exchange with Graham, he had a similar opinion regarding "more trouble than their worth". Is the troublesome part the building, design, or a PITA during actual use? My wife gets a bit claustrophobic below decks (and she IS only 5' 3") so it's more about creating a less-closed-in feeling than it is about standing headroom...
  8. Jake and I had a great time. Thanks to the Byrnes family and all the B&B enthusiasts for a great weekend.
  9. I'm seriously thinking about building a PS26, and I'd like to explore the pop-top option. It seems that with the catketch rig, since there's no mast coming through the cabin, perhaps the whole cabin could pop up. But I know very little about such things. Anybody have any suggestions or comments on the feasibility of such a thing?
  10. I think the obvious solution is a dehydrated boat technology. Upon launching, it would swell to 4x its trailered size, and shrink when not in use. Of course, as it got older, it might lose some of it's ability to respond to the environment correctly, but I'm sure Pfizer could come up with a solution...
  11. And if you've got a random orbital sander, the butt join described in the plans in more than adequate: it breaks outside the fiberglass join. I find them easy to do.
  12. In high winds, I've actually found that the boat can spin too fast out of irons if I pull the main over. If I want real control, I'll push the mizzen slowly out, which will cause the boat to weathercock slightly away from the eye of the wind. This is particularly helpful if I've been laying hove to on one tack, and want to sail out of it on the other. I find I can't get the main out far enough in that case, and pushing the mizzen does the trick.
  13. Got it: no charts needed. Thanks guys.
  14. Anybody got a recommendation on which charts I should order for the mess about?
  15. Jake (my 9 year old son) and I will be there with Rocinante- CS17 #110. Maybe we'll hit the Blue Ridge Parkway on the way down.
  16. Economists. :roll: Always talkin' about the exchange rate when it's really about consumer confidence. The SN credit value of day of mediocre sailing responds logarithmically with with number of days left in the sailing season. Which in Maine is about... 3. So the SN value must be... priceless.
  17. Excellent. I'm glad to hear the move went well and OPUS held up just fine. Enjoy the weather!
  18. I don't know about the whole CT Sales Tax thing. I have a CT hull number, but I haven't bothered registering it because I don't a motor (yet?). I know Ohio (at least) has a similar law. You know, it's not the building or the sailing that confuse me- it's the registration wickets that are daunting.
  19. That's what 1776 was really all about! It wasn't "No Taxation Without Representation". It was "No Intoxication Without Refrigeration".
  20. In Connecticut, it's all boats over 19' 6", or if it has a motor. If you've got a 4 x 8 piece of foam insulation with a rubber band driven propeller, it's got to be registered, and you have to take a Safe Boater class to use it. But a CS17 with no motor (a grudging nod to Ray here) don't need nuthin'.
  21. Congratulations, Peter! A real cutie!
  22. After 15 years teaching physics, my eyebrows got raised on this one: Blue face or not, Ray's right. Only warm flat beer sucks. We techno-geeks have our standards!
  23. Excellent input everybody. I've already got the leach telltales- it's adding those closer to the luff that's key. Pete's pictures help a lot. 3 telltales at each quarter up the sail, 1/3 of the way from the luff to the leach. Got it. And thanks for the reading tip, Wes. It is hard to find sailing instruction not Marconi-centric.
  24. So there are dozens of articles out there telling me where to put telltales on my jib for scads of info about how my boat is pointing, and the adjustments I make in trim so that jib flies just right, and the main pulls most effectively and blah blah. It's amazing how many sailing books don't even acknowledge that there's something besides the Bermuda rigged sloop on the water. I'm looking to add a few telltales on both the main and mizzen that can really help me understand what the wind's doing as it moves over these foils. I know there's a lot more I could do to maximize VMG when beating up. Anybody have any special recommendations they'd like to give on the placement of those telltales?
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