Miscellaneous things..

Several high res pictures of the california special sport aluminium I've got for sale. Clicking on them should make them bigger.

This is a pdf of the now defunct Macgregor website. If you believe this violates your copy write or anything let me know and I'll take it down. Right click with your mouse and save as pdf. 32 megabytes.

So there has been some progress. I rigged the boat this afternoon for the first time. There was a bit of breeze but I risked it. Jib sheets and main sheet. Initially I missed the forward fairleads but ... then I sorted it. The outhaul and downhaul are confusing at this stage. I'll take a closer look later. It's weird. It almost looks like it had single line reefing. Likewise the downhaul is not obvious. I am pretty sure this is meant to be a boom tent. Like everything on the cal it's very small. My hercus lathe. I turned down some dowel to extend the aft mast cradle. The timber extension. I really don't know how you would step the mast without it. The halyards and main sheet were all crusty and horrible. I took them off and measured them intending to buy new. but then I had an idea. I tried washing the ropes in my machine at 95C with some detergent. and they cam