Clayton:

Good to hear you're still out there goofing off with this and that kind of sailing.

Great minds must think alike.

What's better than a Stiletto 27 for cruising, camping and such and a 5.2 for "waaahoo" sailing.

I hate that little "clippy" thing on my 5.2.

I've ripped more shorts and wet suits on that silly thing.

I also worry about loosing the board, altogether, in a capsize or turtle.

Besides that, the stretched cord is always in my way.

I'm experimenting with two approaches.

One is to add a bit of carpet to the well, to keep the board in place. Simple, straightforward, easy and inexpensive.

The second is to use a system like the old Freestyle 474 used. They installed a grommet in the tramp just for and aft of the board. To these they cut a piece of pvc pipe just longer than the board is wide (front to back) and ran a bungee cord through the pipe and secured both ends of the bungee, one end through one grommet and the other through the other.

They put just enough tension on the bungee to hold the board at any desired length

To install the board one just slides the board into the loop formed by the bungee and pvc and then one uses the board to lever the board into the well.


The resulting tension holds the board in place.

Again, cheap, easy and straight forward.

Let use know what you come up with.