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I'm thinking a sea anchor might be a good safety addition for a boat with th Falcon sail. It looks like you need to head to wind to get the sail down. That could be a trick with the sail up forward on the boat. Deploying a sea anchor from the bow will pull the bow into the wind and slow things...

Yesterday was new boat day. Thank you MAKev and the crew of enablers here at the forum...

Have a look here: https://archive.org/details/venturesomevoyag002022mbp/page/n1/mode/2up It's been 20+ years since I read this, but the author was a big proponent of the sea anchor used inshore.

I'm thinking that Mr. MAKev is not that hot to pass on his favorite toy, which is understandable. I'm fishing. Nibbles are encouraging.

Sent you another message. Thanks

I sent you a message. Thanks, Woody

Hi all, I'm throwing my hat in the ring and am looking for a Clipper Sea-1. I'm on the upper Chesapeake, but will be as far north as Maine this summer. Tell your friends.. Thanks, Woody

I though he said that the 18 ft has a rounder bottom than the smaller boats. I'll get a 17ft with a lake keel next to this one to compare. This particular 18 ft Grumman lived on a farm pond, and in later years spent time filled with water as a frog pond, so the bottom had a bit of hog. I did...

A ways back I read some of Calvin Rutstrum's books, and as I remember he thought the 18 ft Grumman canoe was superior to the more common 17 ft model. I brought a gently beaten 18 footer home last night, and can't find the milk crate with Rutstrum's books. Anyone here familiar with his thoughts...

If it's tough weave, I'd feel a bit better about adding external patches.

Yea..free is probably too much. The guys asking $150. His original picture only showed one bad patch. If it's actually Kevlar there's not grinding to do. The boat is pretty clean, so the jell coat loss might be from power washing. Again if Kevlar and not to soft from being crushed, I...

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This is a "please talk me out of it" This has been offered to me for probably a bit to much money, and it's a 4 hour round trip. The owner thinks it's a Kevlar Solo Plus, but I won't be able to confirm with out the drive over. The pictures show stress cracks and patches of gellcoat missing...

I was thinking about this, and it seems like it would be possible to leave sections of the gunwale sleeve when first attached to the boat. That way a sleeved thwart could be butted up to the gunwale and the sleeve braid could be opened up to a fan and slid under the gunwale sleeve. If the...