The Cape Dory Board

I have my vang with the cam cleat at the top. It's easier to get at and works well.

With the hasp on the forestay can you still launch and take down without going forward?
The other question was , why go with spinnakers, IT'S JUST FUN.

I just finished installing an "A" sail (spinnaker ) on my typhoon. I have hank on sails. Last week while trying it out for the first time, I had problems with the tac line. The tac block at the front would catch on the headstay and bind up, so pulling it out or getting the chute down was a...

I had a 1/2" aluminum rod, and drilled and tapped 3 holes in it, slid it down the mast track and screwed the angle bracker with cam cleat to it to lock it into place. When you go to drop the spinnaker, you uncleat the tac line on the starboard cabin top and gather in the foot and then reach up ...

Winter in Michigan is long, but it give me time to work on the boat. This winter the Typhoon Weekender got a new internal spinnaker halyard. It's a fractional rig so the halyard exits about 6 inches above the forestay. It exits just above the main and jib exit blocks. I put a cam cleat mounted to th...

I have a Typhoon Weekender, It is not equipped for a spinnaker. Did Weekenders come from the factory with spinnakers? Were they fractional or masthead. Were the halyard run inside or outside. I want my spinnaker halyard run inside the mast. If it mounts above the forestay on a fractional rig , how f...