Recent content by ConchyDug

Man what are y'all smoking in those wooden pipes, cracking me up. Y'all realize there are tons of other boat manufacturers besides Hunter and Catalina? I'm guessing most of y'all have never been on a keelboat that can plane and I'm not talking about surfing waves. Here is a link to a video with...

Olson 34 modern... compared to what? I mean I guess for the 80's it was high tech, kind of a dinosaur now if you compare it to modern racer/cruisers which the modern Hunters and Catalinas are not racer/cruisers. The Olson's are more comparable to Schock, Hobie, Express, S2, the Beneteau First...

Oh is this where the old men hang out and hate on new things like a VFW?:rolleyes: Heck at least the Catalina boats have elliptical rudders and have more usable waterline. Hallberg-Rassy had an article not long ago illustrating the benefits of wide sterns it would be enlightening for y'all. I'm...

Dyneema strops seem like an improvement could just use a padeye for positioning/holding the strop where you want it on the boom. I did a Google search a few weeks ago looking at mainsheet arrangements that we wanna try to on a Henderson 30 and came across several Olson mainsheet set ups that are...

The Multiplus 3kw is pretty awesome, the Cerbo stuff is neat but didn't seem like a worthwhile investment since the Victron wireless dongle pretty much pushes all the same info to a tablet/phone, plus most of the Victron stuff has Bluetooth integrated into them. The Multiplus has a ton of...

It's called banjo'n or jumping it's pretty common in racing for the foredeck crew. My wife and I double hand as well, I banjo the furler if conditions are chill, meaning I go forward sit on the anchor locker and suck it in, wife handles wheel, sheet, furling line. It's a risk going forward so...

I'd probably check the furling blocks/deck hardware for friction they don't last forever. When I bought my boat the first block back from the furling drum had crushed torlon bearings which made furling very difficult. You couldn't tell from a visual inspection only from loading the block up and...

They make high temp liquid sealant for pipe threads works about 1000 times better than Teflon tape.

$39k? Hell no at that price. That is overpriced. 25yr old sails are toast, sure you can sail with them but they are bagged out and you'll probably find out real quick what UV exposure over 25yrs has weakened on them, those safety lines are toast and not safe, most racing safety requirements...

For sure just drill those rivets out and slap the end you want in. Boats over say 35' usually have socket end poles for the higher loads but the jaw ends work, just don't get too wild with hot reaching a sym kite. I have a jaw end on my mast side and it's held up, but I quit using sym kites like...

I cleat the nylon rode outside the anchor roller directly to a cleat then snub using a pusik 6-8' down the rode which gets attached to the other cleat. Nothing loaded runs thru or over the roller. It looks like a Y bridle viewed from above but nothing passes thru the roller. For retrieval you...

If you have enough tail on the halyard just resplice and taper the halyard, lots of videos on how to do it. The halyard may be too large, like 12mm rope but tapering will free up some room. 8-10mm seems to be the sweet spot on a boat this size but you are kinda limited by whatever your clutches...

For the drone I use an older DJI Spark, lots of options on the table for drones though. I'd go with a "cheaper" drone but the tech is pretty reliable, I haven't lost one. Riggers use them for quick assessments as well as surveyors and home inspectors. These photos are compressed for uploading...

A drone with a camera is a handy piece of tech for such inspections if you don't wanna go up the mast.

Look for a 16-17' spinnaker pole, easier to find and cheaper. Can take a beating as well.