We began the club as a tool to keep our Skedaddle crew members informed of our boat's activities and it has evolved into a forum for discussion of Merit 25's.
I invite anyone to send me photos and I will post them as the Home Page Photo. Use the Messages page to ask questions, provide information, etc. You must become a member to post messages or photos or view the Club's address book.
"Believe me, my young
friend, there is nothing -
absolutely nothing - half so
much worth doing as
simply messing about in
boats. In or out of 'em, it
doesn't matter. Nothing
seems really to matter,
that's the charm of it.
Whether you get away, or
whether you don't; whether you arrive at your
destination, or whether you reach somewhere else or whether you never get anywhere at
all, you're always busy,
and you never do anything
in particular; and when
you've done it there's
always something else to
do, and you can do it if you
like, but you'd much
better not."
Water Rat to Mole
--Wind in the Willows--
Picture: Skedaddle being lowered onto the Cradle-Trailer combo that I use to transport the boat. It came back to Minnesota from the East Coast on this rig and back and forth to the lake many times. Works real well for this purpose and doubles as a car trailer when I have to haul my MG somewhere (during the summer when the boat is in the water).
Hello fellow sailors January 15-16-17, 2010 is the 50th Annual Arizona Yacht Club Birthday and Leukemia Cup Regatta. Come out and thaw yourselves in the warm
Hi Trevor, Another common routing problem you might see is having the halyards exit the sheave box and drop down the mast on the forward side of the spreader
One more thought on sheave boxes and friction. When I got my boat there was tremendous friction in the jib halyard and there was an oversized winch mounted on