[quote=klozhald][quote=astglenn]Spinal Tap! That was the classic bit that will never die. So funny.[/quote]
8-)
[quote=astglenn]...I have become seriously lustful about recently, the Prindle 18-2.[/quote]
Arr, the Two is a lusty lass herself- Tornado shaped hulls without those pesky gunwales lets her slice through the waves like a hot cutlass thru butter!
(normal voice...) Bullet proof Prindle construction and design. We sailed her with my son and his friend the other day in 15 kts gusting to 20 and we were flying a hull with 500+ lbs of meat on the rail. We put the friend on lee side for a bit and he was trapped between the two walls of water coming up on either side of the lee hull. We could hear him screaming but couldn't quite understand the words... so we kept sailing.
I have been sailing my '87 P18-2 since I bought it new, and have single-handed it a few times. A friend in CA, Bob Martinez, regularly single hands his Two in the open ocean out past Anacapa Island. So it's a versitile cat.
The deck is a little cluttered forward with the true four-way jib block rig [i]and [/i]a Barber Hauler, and I have kept them because they work. The relationship between the jib and main is powerful and critical on this cat, and I like being able to dial in the jib. I have marked every line on the cat so that I can tell how it is set from the trapeze. When you are out on the wire, the deck clutter doesn't matter.
I am collecting data on the Two in the Photo section:
[url]http://thebeachcats.com/pictures/?g2_itemId=88542[/url]
Feel free to take a peek.
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