Aquarius Sail Owners

Steve, The crack you describe sounds like a classic compression crack. It should be repaired soon. The damaged area must be removed down to the inner skin ( including core material). Typically the inner skin will still be intact and can be used as a base to build your repair on. We usually replace t...

Mike, We use the standard longest length ( we buy direct from mfg) available. Originally we did not use an extension piece but we had numerous complaints about it being too short. In fact it is probably long enough but when it is fully extended it is pretty bendy and easily fractured because the inn...

Eric,

The extrusion is the same for all ARC products.
We own the tooling and the beams are furnush to us in the raw lengths.
We machine in house and have them annodized locally.
6061-T6 is the alloy of choice.

Eric,

Formula is 366-1100.
Pure white and mixed especially for us. Lots of clear , more than usual.
You will need catalyst as well as reducer.

Eric, All ARC & RC boats that we have built have been finished with Sherwin Williams Sunfire. Three part acrylic urethane. I looked at the site you indicated and I guess I would do some extensive testing before I would venture a paint job with that product. If you think about it the lowest cost ...

Eric, The best way to check luff round is to adjust all the battens and then stake out the three corners of sail. The luff round will be very evident. Take a tape measure & hook it onto headboard just aft of bolt rope. Then pull tape down to tack just aft of bolt rope. You should be able to meas...

Thom. The backing plates for sidestays are a single piece that is formed to fit inside curvatuare of hull. The plate is laminated into the inner skin so I am curious as to how it can be missing. It would be quite a trick to remove them without a bit of effort. In regards to paint I would check with ...

Dave,

Please give me a call and I think I can help you out regarding black sail cloth.
Might save you some time and trouble.

Eric, Lots of things to look at. Halyard line of 5/16" diameter is awfully large. We use a maximum of 3/16" on new boats with aluminum masts and 5/32" diameter with carbon masts. Sheaves are ball bearing at mast head and roller bearing at mast base. I would toss the aluminum sheaves b...

Eric, We drill each rudder with a jig that is indexed off the cam cut outs. The hole location depends on size of rudder and how much of the foil is forward of the rudder pivot point. It does not take much to change rake quite a bit If I remember correctly you have a SUPERCAT 20. If you fill and fair...

We have a snuffer system for the ARC17 but the 21 & 22 present a much more complex problem. Namely size. The 17 spinnaker is quite small in comparison ( but large than most other beach cats I.E. I-20, Tornado. F-18) and we were sucessful with that, but the ARC22 is almost twice the size and the ...

Eric, I saw your post and hope we can get you going better upwind. Judging from your discription of the wind speeds you should have been in great shape. 10-15 is a sweet spot for the ARC21 and 20 should not pose a big problem provided the boat is tuned correctly. First a couple of questions: What wa...

Eric,

You can repair small holes by just weaving them back together. A heavy weight polyester thread works well.
Watch your mail I will send you some material if you want to get it repaired more permanently.

Tom

Eric, What do you mean when you say "well past 90 deg."? In referance to what? The clew plate is the primary rotation control. The stock plate is 10.5" x 2" and has 5 holes that are .625" in diameter. The most forward hole should be a maximum of 101" from back of luff b...

Eric, The mast pedestal is designed with 5 degrees of rake and the sidestays were dimensioned to be in the bottom hole of lever assembly when the mast is at 5 degrees also. This should give you more than enough adjustment. Raking the mast further aft will not help pointing abilityand will definately...