[quote=reverend]Hey Tom,
This is Jeff, who sails with Bill. I think I should have Bill's e-mail address...because I've been the phantom with all your correspondence!! Sorry about that. I had not completed all the steps in subscribing to Beach Cat...and when I tried to reply, my application got kicked back because enough of my information was still recored from the first application so it would not allow anyone trying to open a new account using already existing information...so that took some sorting out.
Anyway...here I am!!
First off Tom....let me start by saying how beautiful your P-Cat is!! I will enjoy seeing any pictures you have of your boat.
The P-Cat that I have now, was modified from the original set up. I have not seen all the pictures Bill has posted on our P-Cat, but I'm sure you've noticed a few differences....like the bailing tube in the well has been filled in so as to anchor a 2' cable that relocated the jib pulley off the transom and put it closer to the shrouds...thus eliminating some of the line congestion for the guy with the tiller.
I'd have to look at some of my old photos of my first P-Cat to be sure just exactly what its hull number was, but 291 seems right. I did not buy it new...I bought it from Wayne Mort, someone I worked with on the movie industry. I parted ways with that hull when I realized how much it was going to cost me to repair all the stress fractures on the hull....it was going to be a lot cheeper to simply buy a better hull...which is what I did (reluctantly).
One of the things I have missed from the first P-Cat was the traveler set up (like you have). But I don't miss all the gymnastics it takes to get from one side to the boat to the other!! Of course...it took some time for me to deliberate whether or not I was actually going to alter the P-Cat "look" by changing its rigging design. One of the things that helped me make the change was the fact that the design of the P-Cats rigging had ALREADY been altered with the jib pulley! YOU, however...are in possession of an original P-Cat! Even my first P-Cat did not have the Boom Vang on it (the hardware was on the boat for it) but Wayne had abandoned it long before I got it!
I'm going to have to find the box I put all my old photos in of #291...I'm sure I packed them away with my tow copies of Royce's Sailing Illustrated!!
Its good being in touch with you Tom..not many P-Cat owners around!!
We few...we happy few...we band of brothers!!
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