[quote=hamish66]Sax2ter, thanks for posting this. It is incredibly helpful.
While sailing yesterday my Port shroud busted so am looking to replace all the wires now. (no damage to the boat). My SOLCAT 18 had the same size Shroud length 20'9" but the Forestay was 18'5" and the Bridles 4'. there is a direct relationship between the Bridal length and the Forestay length. What we are going to do is extend the forestay to your recommendation of 18'9" and reduce the Bridal length to 3'11"
What that will do is lower the Jib, or allow the Jib to be lower which will help the SOLCAT point better.
I have read a lot on here about how much faster a Hobie is than a SOLCAT, If the SOLCAT is rigged properly it is a very fast boat. The biggest mistake I see is that the Cunningham on the SOLCAT is very difficult to use and the Sail ends up with wrinkles.
My son and I rigged 2 blocks to use as an additional Cunningham devise to pull the sail down to the boom gooseneck. After that little trick, the boat fly's. ( we take the blocks off after setting the sail. All we need now is a real boom vang.[/quote]
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