The latest 'project'

Why are washerwomen littering my pristine development thread, looking for an end to dishpan hands perhaps?

Just get back to baling out your Alto Bootscoot.. What do you use? Sponge, dustpan?

You'll thank me one day..

Edited by iGRF - 08 Nov 13 at 9:29am

i am really warming to this topic now. Hydraulics that's the way. Take a long thin tube made of soft floppy material and pump it full of fluid until it is stiff and hard. Now you have your pole. Pole deflated up wind, round the windward mark....now the excitement starts and you deploy your pole......I cannot think where the inspiration for this comes from, some distant memory.

Originally posted by Bootscooter Originally posted by iGRF Just get back to baling out your Alto Bootscoot.. What do you use? Sponge, dustpan? You'll thank me one day.. There's no need for any of those things when you put some time in and learn to sail the boat properly (mostly upright, with just the right amount of heel during tacks).

Not done many drifters in it yet clearly..

Last race we had we nearly sank, we were right out front when the wind faded and those self balers leak like sieves, then, once a certain amount of water accumulates, the boat lowers and the water starts coming in through the little flap things in the back if you haven't taped them up, which we do, but the week previous we'd had to kick them open after a wave broke over us.

It's the one weak point of an otherwise splendid boat, and it's definitely not cool us resplendent with our bright red kite leading the field with all the girls on the shore waving us on and we're shovelling water out of the boat like the titanic. "ooh are they sinking" "will daddy be alright'" cue lilo rescue patrol and gales of laughter from SUP benders, seriously dinghies should be weaponised in the face of such trauma..