Recent content by MarcusJtown

East coast East Coast, but mine is available. I hadn’t been looking to sell, but I’ve just been offered an interesting oppotunity. She’s well maintained. Solid racer/cruiser. I’ve been getting her setup for short handed ocean racing and plan on doing the Bermuda 1-2 with her next June. I won...

I'm in the process of removing a Raymarine smart pilot x5 from my boat. Here is the Raymarine info on it: http://www.raymarine.com/view/?id=380 I installed it 2 years ago and it has worked great. I'm changing to a below deck drive. If you're interested, I'll have the wheel drive, course...

Chasing down the competition:

I was onboard today, knocking 8 inches of snow off the cover. I do envy you west coast folk....

I had a problem with my autopilot last year when I had my tool bag sitting on the other side of the bulkhead from the flux gate compass. No electronics, just a big pile of metal really messed things up.

Thanks for the post Andy. BIRW has been on my to-do list for a while, and while it's not in the cards this year because of my work schedule, I'm planning on it in 2017.

Make sure your jib cars are in the right spot. You said you have what you think is a 105-110. Can you sheet it inside the shrouds? With a jib that size, you can probably move the cars pretty far forward to power it up. Moving the cars back allows the top to twist off, good for higher in the...

Yeah, I just move it out to the toe rail. We did put it up once this summer on the way to cuttyhunk, and left the mainsheet attached. Once we left the bay, it was starboard tack the whole way with the Asym up. Woulda been screwed if we had to jibe, lol.

Here's my dodger. I had to do a screen grab from a video, so it's not a great shot. It's not on the boat very often, so I don't have any real good pictures, but I'll try and get one. It's a great setup. I tend to use it with the sides off and the center rolled up, just for shade for the kid...

Mark rounding Here's one from a couple Tuesdays ago. Funny because I heard the skipper on the other boat yell "put the F'in camera away and get the spin down!!" as we were rounding.

Yeah it is. I passed that along to the Photographer. I'm trying to get a hi-res file from her to print. I'll tell you what, on the light nights, it sure is nice to have that big masthead chute!

Here's one from last Tuesday's race, taken from a competitor. My Olson is the blue and pink spinnaker.

I've seen winch handle/ sail tie storage on other boats in that location, but they had lexan hinged lids.

I ended up just hack-sawing through the black iron pipe that connects the riser to the engine. It's pretty obvious that this is all assembled prior to the engine being installed in the boat, as there was just no room to slide the riser back and off the studs. Installing the new riser was easy...

And therein lies the problem, USMC 1998-2006, which means I cuss like a sailor, only much more effectively!