[quote=erice]you might want to
-check all the lines, most probably need replacing
-check for sacrificial corrosion, where 1 small item has decided to corrode for everyone else, alloy casting at mast base, jam cleats etc
- lube things like the jib blocks and downhaul blocks that may have frozen solid
- check stainless rigging for corrosion where it enters the lower swage
- add the pivomatic rudder release system
- add a rudder hold up system
- restitch the tramp, the mesh seems to last for ever but the stitching for only 10? years of sunlight
- check your sail battens aren't horribly twisted if they were left in the rolled up sail...if they are you could try leaving them in a jig with an equal amount of opposite twist for 4 months, but go carefully, twisted is better than broken
- buy and read "catamaran racing for the 90's"
- gently see if you can crack free the beam strap bolts, you don't need to and you don't want to break them off or strip the brass threads but if you are ever going to take the boat apart now might be the time to start soaking them with penetrating oil
- once the hulls are nice and clean you could take off those old stickers and put the newer style on on get some copies of the old ones
- check the trapeze handles, if they are the oem triangular nacra ones where the harness is attached to the plastic base, maybe replace them with the T type where the harness goes directly to the stainless cable. i had the old style and 1 day the plastic bit split and dropped me in the drink while on trap, quite a surprise to suddenly be in the water and i bent the alloy extension so badly i had to cut off 1 end
enjoy, great boat, 20mtr of sail so it can be a handful solo and i've never been able to right mine solo so either sail with a buddy or sort out a righting system[/quote]
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