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Palm Beach County | I'm thinking about converting my G-Cat 5.7 to self tacking. I'm wondering about the performance on a non board boat. Your thoughts / experience?
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| my pal put one on his mystere 5.5 (i know, it's a board boat)
he paid the price up and down wind (less power) and stopped using it
it still needs to be sheeted each tack, so there was no saving in work....
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Naples, FL | Hey Mike,
How goes the big boat project?
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Palm Beach County | Mn3 I think I sent you a reply if it went.
Jay the TMS-20 is on hold for now time and money thing. Decided to get the G-Cat back in the water for fun and another smaller side project that I hope makes some money.
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Palm Beach County | I have first hand knowledge of the self tacking system Bill Roberts designed for the SuperCat boats and have sailed on a 20 with it. I'm wondering if will work as well on a non board boat that doesn't have a pivot point of a board.maybe I'll be the test case?
Mike Shappell www.themanshed.comTMS-20 Builder G-Cat 5.7 - Current Boat NACRA 5.2 - early 70's | | | Re: Has anybody put a self tacking jib on a non-board cat?
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Lugoff, South Carolina | The boat in the above picture is boardless, Aquarius has been doing it for a good while. It tacks fine, just have to get the hang of it. I think it points very well, some say better with the self tacker. Downwind you lose some sail area. Here's what'll be a boring video of the boat with the self tacking set up. I filmed a bunch of tacks, some are pretty ugly. http://youtu.be/HqzMWr2wN30
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Kingston SE South Australia | Have you calculated how much sail area you will lose by going the thinner jib that may give you an indication on performance loss. On the Taipan 5.7's they compensated a bit on the kite boats by having a strut from the bottom of the bridle to the spin pole so the jib could start much lower that added area but still didn't compensate fully. I have a PDF for the Taipans I'll try to upload
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Palm Beach County | Hey thanks Jeff and Mac just what I was looking for. I added a spinnaker to the G-Cat so down wind I can pop the shoot and I set it all up to single handle with a self tacking jib my goal down wind is to fly all 3. On the G-Cat there is a front beam so I can actually bring the jib all the way down to the front beam as in the original design. Currently I have a Jib that is on the bridal stay that is on a roller furler so I will actually gained a little bit of jib by switching to a self tacker. Adding a few degrees up wind will help a lot when I try to sail from our usual beach spot back to and through the Palm Beach inlet. Plus I like the idea of cleaning up the tramp by getting rid of the cross wire, blocks and sheeting lines of the jib. Worth a shoot I think as most of my sailing is beach cruising.
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Mike Shappell www.themanshed.comTMS-20 Builder G-Cat 5.7 - Current Boat NACRA 5.2 - early 70's | | | Re: Has anybody put a self tacking jib on a non-board cat?
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South Carolina | Hey thanks Jeff and Mac just what I was looking for. I added a spinnaker to the G-Cat so down wind I can pop the shoot and I set it all up to single handle with a self tacking jib my goal down wind is to fly all 3. On the G-Cat there is a front beam so I can actually bring the jib all the way down to the front beam as in the original design. Currently I have a Jib that is on the bridal stay that is on a roller furler so I will actually gained a little bit of jib by switching to a self tacker. Adding a few degrees up wind will help a lot when I try to sail from our usual beach spot back to and through the Palm Beach inlet. Plus I like the idea of cleaning up the tramp by getting rid of the cross wire, blocks and sheeting lines of the jib. Worth a shoot I think as most of my sailing is beach cruising. Are you keeping the furler? I sure liked mine when I had one.
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Palm Beach County | Mac Bill Roberts is friend of mine I've know him since the early 80's. I actually saw them make the molds to the super cat 20 and do the first layups back when he lived in West Palm Beach on a lake. We use to sail and race on the lake all the time and his shop was next to friend of mine that had an automotive shop. I don't see him much these days but we use to razz each other because I sailed for G-Cat.We both work at Pratt and Whitney for awhile during my time there as a contractor.
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Palm Beach County | Thinking about going w/out furler and getting a Jib with battens...down the road a month time for thought, input, and sail maker input.
Mike Shappell www.themanshed.comTMS-20 Builder G-Cat 5.7 - Current Boat NACRA 5.2 - early 70's | | | Re: Has anybody put a self tacking jib on a non-board cat?
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Kingston SE South Australia | Congratulations on the new boat, let us know when you've sailed it and how you go. Have sent the pdf Mike, few problems god only knows how many copies you will get heheheh
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Naples, FL | Mike, is there enough space between the jib luff and spin luff to carry all three sails without having to point insanely high and/or blanketing any of the sails?
Jay
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Lugoff, South Carolina | Kinda expensive because I went through Aquarius for most everything except the sail. I think the kit was $1700, included the jib track, car, compression pole, pelican striker, blocks, line, strut wires, 4:1 jib downhaul, etc. I went through them because they make really nice stuff, have it figured out, and I didn't want to have to try and figure everything out myself. Pretty much a plug and play deal, did it over a weekend.
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Florida Suncoast, Dunedin Caus... | The other thing you could do is put a hobie 16 style set up on. A small track on both sides of the mast. You can still adjust the slot from the high side. You still have to tack the jib but cleans the tramp and allows easy jib furling. I think the jib would be slighty larger than one with a curved track and you might be able to trim your current sail to fit.
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