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I you like 3 strand, Defender.com has quite a bit. I have recent triple strand on my CD25 -- but alas I am changing it all for braided -- it's just too much stretch for me. I got into a blow with it and it was stretching and stretching. I don't want to have to keep resetting the cleats -- perhaps it...

Hello everyone. West Marine is having a 4 day sale on rope that is pretty good. I need to replace several of my lines as I will be changing the configuration of my halyards and such so that I may have all the lines running back to the cockpit. Anyway. . I was wondering if anybody has an idea about t...

Hi Steve, Were the ship merely transportation I would say you are probably right on. However, these ships power casinos, malls, movie theatres, bars, restaurants, water parks (complete with water slides and such), as well as thousands of square feet of common space which is all lit and air-condition...

I think the QM2 is an amazing ship -- she certainly is big and a sight to behold in person. I have romanticized about big ships for years -- that was until I worked on one. I played in the band on a cruise ship when I was much younger. Unfortunately cruising on these ships is one of the most environ...

Yeah. . . I hope this is not the case. I was speaking with my friend (and experienced sailor) Peter Schorr. We were both sort of conjecturing that perhaps this guy wanted to: 1) leave his wife and family and head south/elsewhere 2) end it all and turned off his EPIRB/made a convenient hole in his hu...

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Did anyone see this?

henry

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My CD has this mainsail roller reefing. It is still functional, but in my opinion. . .it stinks. Certainly in theory it is all well and good, but it is in practice (under reef-worthy conditions) that we test these systems. On my delivery trip we had some pretty serious blow and swells and 3 of us ha...

Hi Lew, That material is Tufnol. I used to have some tufnol cam cleats on my 1967 O'day Mariner. It's actually pretty solid stuff and if it is working well I wouldn't replace it. My cam cleats eventually just wore down to the point where they wouldn't hold lines anymore and had to be replaced. Tufno...

Hi, I've been up there working on my brightwork. some of you saw this: http://www.henryhey.com/boatyard.html And today I posted this: http://www.henryhey.com/boatyard2.html I'll also be making my own cushion covers. I already ordered the foam wholesale and will cut it myself. Thank you to all the he...

but I will be headed for BVI for a 7 day charter at that time.

Ah yes.. your very expensive dinghy paint (that stuff is not cheap) is resting inertly somewhere on the bottom of some waterway. I assume that it will not peel off in sheets from the bottom of a fiberglass boat. I would think that were this the case there would be some wind about it online (which I ...

Hi, I have pretty much decided that I will use E-paint. http://tinyurl.com/yjvwt8 I read a few different reviews -- including this year's practical sailor. It might interest you all to know that the two top-rated paints there are both water-based. E-paint doesn't fair too badly, and it did even bett...

Amazing that all those women on that page are so into self steering systems. . .

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Hey Carl, Thanks for the compliment on the boat. I wish that I could take credit for her nice condition -- she was in pretty nice shape when I got her a few months ago thanks to the love of the POs. I did manage to track down the original owner (who bought her new in 79). It was an interesting story...