Aquarius Sail Owners

We made up new shrouds at WestMarine again on Sat. This time me paid tons more attention to the 3 crimps and their allignment on the ferrul. The fact that we made 3 crimps, instead of 2 like the last time is probably the major change. We also (since the mast was down) put new rivets into the hook at...

Thanks Matt. I don't suppose I could convince you to divulge the lengths of the original shrouds? I've got a local rigger (Jeff @ RigTek) who is going to make them for me so I don't loose more sailing time. Currently it's my plan to copy the length of the spare-mast shrouds which are 20yrs old and I...

OK, I must be doing something wrong. For the second time I've lost the mast as a result of a failure on the starbord shroud. Coincidence, bad sea-man ship, badly wrigged? I don't know. This time the ferrul of the shrouds I made last year after this happened, simply stopped clamping and well mast, ma...

OK. Dumb question but a quick google yielded poor results. Who should I go talk to about buying a simple lockable sail&gear box that will get bolted to the trailer? I've got my summer-boat-home squared away so for 2005 the SC-17 will live at Highland Park, IL Yach Club. Whoo-Hoo! :D Should I sim...

Spares, yeah I've got some (main spars, main sail, rudders, mast...) because I bought the abandoned boat down the beach. I'm not too keen on dumping off my spares, but I suppose you could convince me... Wasn't up in TVC, but used to live up there and attend NMC. I was one of those student pilots buz...

It's been a couple decades since I was last on one of these boats and I've jumped back in. I'm now the proud owner of an '84 SC-17. While I'm in now for almost $3k I've got (2) main sales, (2) masts, spare spars and rigging and a new trailer in addition to a faily sound boat. The PO did a repair to ...