http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/ Gloucestersailboats Sailboats Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:17:46 GMT Bill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1345 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1345 Hey, Decided to hold on to it for now. Thanks for the interest. - Bill Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:37:32 GMT wittybanter@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1344 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1344 Can you foward any pics to my e-mail,Thanks wittybanter@... Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:16:58 GMT ewhaile http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1343 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1343 Happy Ten All, New Subject: My G16 masthead is nothing but a thin aluminum plate held by brackets and selftapping screws. The main halyard arrives at nothing Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:03:59 GMT David http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1342 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1342 Do you have any pics and further description. Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:12:03 GMT ewhaile http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1341 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1341 Bernard Moitessier gives a few recipes for making an underwater emergency patch for a holed boat hull, using clay and cement and plaster, for those interested. Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:52:24 GMT Bill http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1340 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1340 Hi All, My Gloucester 19 is for sale. I find the boat a bit small and light for the conditions I sail in. Buying a bigger boat. The boat is in good consdition. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:17:18 GMT ewhaile http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1339 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1339 I can understand why the larkshead but not why the clove hitch would snag a forestay. All this makes me think in terms of a longer bowsprit. I think the usual Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:51:01 GMT Storm Connors http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1338 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1338 I had some difficulty jibing with the asymmetrical as the knot at the clew would hang up on the fore stay. I tried a clove hitch instead of the larks head but Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:19:42 GMT ewhaile http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1337 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1337 Storm, That looks like a pretty neat rig. I am tempted to copy it. I like the way you let visitors study the arrangement with good pix. With a 30-in bowsprit, Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:15:16 GMT Storm Connors http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1336 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1336 I put a bowsprit on my N16. Details on my blog. So far it is working well with my cruising spinnaker, but it is attached just above the forestay. If I were Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:34:18 GMT ewhaile http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1335 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1335 I have a problem. I want to carry on a masthead drifter sail, a very lightweight genoa, for light air use. The Gloucester 16 being a fractional rig, the Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:03:04 GMT jim http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1334 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1334 I thought your point about that was well made and as I recall got positive response when the thread continued. I won't go out in anything that might be Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:30:28 GMT Storm Connors http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1333 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1333 "All good reasons to beef up the strength and flotation of our boats" The point I was trying to make was that the boat in question did not have a flotation Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:03:22 GMT jim http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1332 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1332 Staying with the boat is always the advice I've read, gotta be easier to see a hull than five little bodies. None of the articles I could find online these 18 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:52:01 GMT Storm Connors http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1331 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gloucestersailboats/message/1331 It appears that the boat in the article did not sink. Rescue would apparently have been quicker if they had been with the boat. Storm Connors