Will1073

Balsa w/ 12oz biax skins (epoxy), nonskid paint. Light and cheap

Agreed about doing away with the aft winches in favor of leading the runners forward.

Confirm that the transducer is properly and fully seated in the thru-hull. A little Vaseline can help the transducer slide easily into the housing.

I believe you can email yourself the photos (through the mail app) and by doing so you can compress them.

I've had an OS2 for about 3 years now. The high collar is great as are the chest pockets. But this thing is WARM. Great for the early and late season, but I wouldn't want to wear it in the middle of summer.

Allen, I would set it up like a boom kicker. To do this I would go out in drifter conditions and centre your boom using traveler and any mainsheet tension you may need while sailing a beat. If it were my boat, I would want full vang off to be enough to keep the leach of the main twisted nicely open.

There’s no way you’re going to get the eye-eye length exactly. The line will stretch slightly, and your splices will set.

I’m a big believer in toxicity = durability

Plexus

My girl rocks the 5gal pale with the toilet seat attachment. She's a keeper. Used to pee in my old Opti bailer, but things had to change after a 25kt pee session that caused her to fall over while squatting...

Wondering if I should make the switch from VC17... Like the colour and like the fact that it can be polished up. VC17 is the race bottom of choice up here though and it makes the slime really easy to wipe off.

I'm with Gouv. Don't reinvent the wheel. I rolled and shot a few hundred gallons of the stuff, never had issues with curing.

Laser 28? Might be a stretch to find for your price. They're a peach.

$599 so I can share my rig tension on social media?

Never personally tried to glue the two back together, have seen many horror shows of owners trying and failing. I have made some light teak battens to help hold a falling vinyl line back up to the underside of the side decks.