Chrysler Sailors Forum

took it for another sail today, and it seems to be a bit more troublesome than the coronado 15s. I half wonder if Chystler just didn't take the design for one of the slightly larger boats and just stick it into a 13 foot one. I could see this working a lot better if it were, say, 18 feet long ...

oh, ok.

thanks:)

We took it out for a test sail, it seems to work allright, although I still am not sure how you're supposed to move around the thing, you have to really get out of the way to keep from banging your head on the boom, and the tiller just complicates matters! ah well, I'll figure ...

I can see from the pics in the manual what you mean about that bridle limiting boom swing. Am guessing the C15's you are used to learning on use the stern sheeting/split mainsheet tail setup ? I have my C15 set up that way and while it also limits the boom travel, if you ease the boom out much ...

Ok, someone recently gave me their old pirateer 13. I've been taking sailing classes at my university, and I was just hoping to use this to learn. Most of the set up seemed fairly self-explanatory, and fairly similar to what I was used to with the coronado 15s UCSC uses, but I am baffled over the ...