Please at least thank your friend for providing the inspiration that fuels our desires. And thank you for being patient and putting up all our requests.
It is hard to see something someone else has done that you admire and would also like to do and not try to grill them for any and all information on how they accomplished it. I personally just hate to try to reinvent something that I see someone else has done so successfully. Being pretty much just a casual sailor and very new at that, getting a nice front end tramp or net area for me is a great modification. I am not unskilled but have never done anything like this before and do not have the means to pay someone else to do it for me.
That said any others that have done this before and have info, tips, tricks, and ideas. I have a Prindle 18 just like andrews buddy and would love to put a front tramp/net on it. I think I would be safe drilling small holes in the fiberglass lip of the deck since the back tramp uses something similar to secure it by lacing through these holes and the tramp side tabs. But the holes on the back tramp are on the outside of the hulls no the inside like I was thinking they would need to be for the front. This means that the strain is pulled opposite of how the real tramp is designed. I may have to consider taking it across the hulls like the back. But I still have no idea how secure the front and back of it. I may have to get some spar pricing on that part of it but that is unlikely to happen this season unless finances change
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Dustin Finlinson • Magna, UT
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Utah Sailing Association
1982 Prindle 18
1986 Hobie 17
1982 Prindle 16
1980 Prindle 16(mostly)
1976 Prindle 16(mostly)
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