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looking for a jib furler for a cape dory typhoon

I recently replaced the main sail on PYEWACKET with one from North Sails here in Portsmouth, RI. I want to replace the jib this Fall/Winter & I was thinking about installing a furling system. What are the pro's & con's for a furling system for a TY WEEKENDER? What about different manufacture...

:D Good news!! After soaking it with PB[ /b] for the last 24 hours and the use of a friends wheel puller , it came off slowly, but easily. Very simple inside. With a little cleaning & grease, I'll have it back on tomorrow. I will also be doing the starboard one and I plan to take Pix's and post ...

Steve, I still have Pyewacket on the hard here in Portsmouth at Brewers North for a similar, but different problem. If it being held up & in place with the pin only and does not touch the base you have a safety problem. This on the advise of a former Cape Dory production manger who works at Brew...

Thanks you very much Carl.

I finally have some thing to work with.



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I have a 1974 typhoon with Gibb Winches. Starboard winch turns with ease. The port winch will only turn hard with the winch handle, but it will turn. I removed the winch and the brass stand to my vise on my work bench. I have removed one screw and one thin washer easily from the top of the winch bel...

Does anyone know what the exact thickness of the Typhoon deck in the vicinity of the winches. I am planning to mount Shur-Luc ladder catch Brackets for a Garelick Model # 14039 swim ladder, with attached stand-offs. Have teak Bases & Backing plates made up. I don't want to drilled holes until I ...

Dick, I appreciate and understand what you are saying. My TY and the other Ty were out of the water both setting on trailers side by side each other. both boats were level and the rake was noticable. When I got the new mast from Kim at rig-rite, I ask for and got a 6" section of the stock make ...

O. J., No changes except the new mast. No new turnbuckles,no new running rigging. After stay slack as compared to the tightness of the forestay aft when it is attacted. I have a thought that when I prepared the new mast when cutting the base of the mast aft, with the upward angle, that there is slig...

I have a question about the verticial alinement of a typhoon mast when installed. I lost the original mast during a heavy storm on the sakonnet river. It was broken in to just above the sheeves at the base. Insurance paid for damage. I purchased a new mast without fittings from rig-rite and brought ...

HI BLY,

I like the wood frame Idea. If you have or will receive any plans or if anyone reading the board has any for a typhoon cover, I would be interested in they too. I hate to reinvent the wheel. that is one reason I love this board.

And I very much concur with Dick comments too.

Hi Doug, As a former Houston Marine training Services 9 days semiar instructor for five years from 1982-1987( prepped over 1000+ sucessful candiates) from Maine to New York and a part time instructor at Northeast Maritime Institue for many years I can give you my opinion for what it is worth. There ...

Put POLY GLOW on Spring of 2005. The stuff has been crazing and peeling off. I hate it and I want to remove it completely the fall afteri pull her out. Anyone else had the same problem with this in the northeast . How do you get the junk off ??

I have the remaining upper 21ft.+ of my original typhoon mast that was knocked down in a storm two years ago (Insurance company paid for a new replacement and then some, I did the work myself, with some help from Greg Ross long distance via e-mail). Anyway I have been toying with the idea of making ...