Date: July 10th 2010

Heya!

So some of you may be familiar with one of the less welcome "features" of the Vanguard 15: if you turtle it, and it sits upside down for 5, 10 minutes or so, the mast fills with water. Then, when you right it, all that weight so high up means it has mad rotational inertia, and tends to death-roll right back over again. Then once you've done this a dozen times and you're all tired, Jericho Rescue comes out to get you. This is annoying.

So, we've been thinking about possible fixes, which we'd have to prototype and test. This would involve picking a nice warm sunny day, heading down to the club, taking a mast off a boat, removing the bottom of it, shoving a bunch of pool noodles into the mast, re-assembling it, going for a nice long sail, then, just before returning, repeatedly capsizing and turtling it for various lengths of time to see what happens :) Tomorrow's forecast to be a nice sunny day...

If that sounds like an appealing way to spend a summer Sunday, well, you should probably get professional help. But barring that, let me know, eh?

Anton.
pitts.anton@gmail.com
778-837-6834