I just found a picture of The Princess in a former life on the Vangaurd site. She looks like she was loved.
We are really loving sailing her with the jib boom... so much fun short tacking in tight channels, around the shoreline or in buoy fields. Also great when there are five or six passengers, no one needs to move or put down their drink when we tack. All the control lines are behind me with the exception of the main halyard.(which may be next to go below decks, maybe an electric winch?)
Jerry, yes I shimmed up the base of the jib boom to clear the coach roof with a wedge of thickened epoxy and milled glass. It would have to be shimmed up further to clear a forward hatch.
MBD, You see simularities to the Alerion??? Huh, I never noticed. What a wierd coincidence.
Last edited by Commander227; 07-26-2010 at 06:40 AM.
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