Chrysler Sailors Forum

Hi all,

Been wrapped up with life, the universe (and home, family and work) and everything for a bit, but had a great opportunity come my way and jumped at it. Heading out Thursday early AM for Victoria, BC, to crew on a delivery of a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 50 DS to San Francisco. This will the ...

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 44. Breezy, with a west wind between 20 and 25 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 24. West wind between 10 and 15 mph becoming calm. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.

Windward:

Capacity plate on 1978 model says 15 Hp. Only once has my 9.8 been overwhelmed

I feel bad for the experience you had with them. It's a good thing that you shared it. Having to shop for a new loft for Destiny's sails really sucks. Much more comforting to do that with a relatively inexpensive set of sails. Really hope you find one with quality product AND reliable delivery this ...

Merry Christmas, all!

Scott, I'm really, really sorry to hear you've had another problem with FXSails. I think you were quite generous in giving them a second shot after your first experience, and obviously you've been bitten twice. Their loss, on several levels, for blowing that second chance to shine.

Back in my ...

Congrats to both the Marks!

Happy birthday, Paul!

Perhaps that explains the "paddle boat trailer" that's included

Hope it's another happy birthday for you, Scott!

GoodOldBoat ran a piece on a Chrysler 27 in 2003 or 2004, I think, but don't recall whether it contained detail you might find useful.

New Year's Day is our club's Frostbite Race, and that plus other stuff I have on the plate means no road trip for me. Enjoy!

Conversely, anyone who wants to travel to Watauga Lake for New Year's Day can probably race. Watauga Lake Sailing Club is rather accommodating!

Jeff

I don't have any reference books handy at work, but Ivan Dedekam has one on sail trim and rig tuning that I like. Also have something at home from Selden masts, recommended to me by Brion Toss, and a bunch of notes from various sites. I carry more tension than most other boats at our dock, the ...

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

Jeff's Windward is well loved, well sailed, well used and at this point pretty well scratched. I appreciate the compliment, but she's a workin' girl, and would rather kick her shoes off and dance than have her nails done. You have your priorities lined up well, my friend!

Happy Birthday, EE, and a happy belated to SailBob. Fair winds!

For a sailboat of <9' beam, a slip at Lakeshore Marina, Watauga Lake, TN is $1100 per year, including power and water.

Believe it's called a reef jackline, and it permits the sail to reef smoothly without pinching the cloth and with the new tack pulled all the way down rather than wedged up the track above the other slugs.

Another question: Do they need to cut the radius on this stuff with a plasma cutter or what? Is there a thickness of stainless beyond which the labor costs for cutting/shaping become prohibitive, or is that thickness well beyond the 1/4" we're talking here?

Sauerleigh, that's great info. Is there an immersion duration after which I should use 316? I still haven't discounted the possibility of keeping Windward on the coast for a while, so don't want to save a small %$ but lose out in the long run.

I already had the 1/4" reinforcement added across the ...

Thanks! I really appreciate it. I found a cruddy Visio-based diagram I'd previously done that also had that dimension, so I'm taking that as confirmation. Materials alone on this little jewel are going to be at least 5 Benjies so trying to avoid mi$-steps.

Back from Pamlico Sound and the Outer Banks of NC. Great time, wonderful weather, cooperative breeze, few mosquitoes, and unfortunately a rudder that is once again compromised. Stress risers from the numerous repairs seem to predispose the cheek plates to cracking, and rather than continue to bleed ...

Entropy and a series of related and unrelated events finally surmounted, I'm throwing clothes in a duffel, adjusting tongue weight on the trailer and taking Windward for a week of sailing on Pamlico Sound / Outer Banks. Cheers!

I tow Windward from NE Tennessee to the Outer Banks on a borrowed trailer with a 2006 standard bed, super cab F150 5.4L, 4wd with 3.73s. Not sure what the all-up weight is for Windward, gear and trailer, but I'd guess it's 8000-8500 pounds. It struggles coming up 421 into Boone, and on 105 past ...

You guys picked a great weather window to visit a beautiful place! Next week/weekend looks wetter. I've not been to Cades Cove in years, but last time there (with bikes) the woman I was with was run off the road by an oblivious, sight-seeing motorist. On reflection, it may have been someone who knew ...

Yes, cabin top winches are on "the list" for me, too, just haven't gotten time to install the used Lewmar 16s (not self-tailing, unfortunately) I'd picked up. As for the singlehanding thing, I'm about to go spend two weeks sailing OBX that way. I suppose I could develop better social skills, but it ...

hp18carr wrote:How would you go about rigging your Chrysler (in my case a C26) to help accommodate this endeavor?

A lot like Windward

Sorry to be away for a bit -- wrapped up with home & work, and it's about to get worse (or better) as I spend a week in Michigan and then go sail the Pamlico Sound area.

I LOVE the Tohatsu 9.9 elec start / extra long shaft on Windward. I added the 5" pitch high thrust prop, which provides better ...

Originals by Vector Sails, I think

He may have Alpha, the boat that I had thought was Dave Larson's. Try http://www.cambridge.k12.mn.us/~larsond/woods2002.htm.

<<edit>> Just looked, and I think it may be. If so, it's a well-loved, well-used, and almost certainly well-cared for boat with much history.