[quote=hawkeye]Hey Gerry since I first saw your videos a couple of days ago I've been trying to locate you so I could correspond with you about your rig. (BEACHCATS, of course! I should have known.) Because I too have been experimenting with crabclaw rigs on various boats the last few years for all the reasons you describe so well. My rig (and boats) are quite different from yours however, but I am very happy with the crabclaw and continually tweak it for handier sailing. I no longer have any Hobie Cats (I have owned four) or Prindle Cats (I have owned two) but I still have a Sea Spray 16 cat and three monohulls. My current "test sled" is a 1966 aluminum Grumman Flyer 16 foot monohull that I rescued from a barn back in April. It came with a nice roller trailer, mast, boom, etc. but only one sail-the spinnaker! So, I tossed my crabclaw rig in it that I put together two years ago and took it sailing the day after I brought it home. My rig is very portable since I use a single short mast and the 14-foot spars from a sunfish. But the performance from so small a sail is amazing and the rigging so simple that I usually step the mast and hoist the sail once I'm on the water in well under five minutes. Send me your email address and I'll send you some pics. I look forward to discussing our "thousand year old rigs."[/quote]
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