Posts Tagged ‘cheap’

One of the big problems you have to deal with in a tiny beachcruising multihull is the lack of load-carrying capacity.
For example, Slider only has about 600 lbs. of displacement available, after subtracting the weight of the boat and her rig. Add a couple of adults and a camping outfit, and there isn’t a [...]

Slider’s rigging is 3/32″ stainless wire, held around thimbles by a couple of squash-on sleeves. Unfortunately, this leaves a cut wire end showing above the second sleeve. With time, that loose end can become frayed, After a couple of months, the heatshrink tubing I used on the ends became loose, and a [...]

I had a very sobering experience last night.
We’d taken Slider out of the water to get her ready for a trip by trailer to the wonderful peninsula across the bay from Port St. Joe, just west of Apalachicola, Florida. I needed to put up the mast in order to work on the attachments for [...]