On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:04:56 GMT, "NE Sailboat"
wrote:

Got the cover off today. And after this, I decided to bring as much
equipment home as possible. This way, I am not dealing with fenders, lines,
etc when doing my spring projects.

Once I got all this "stuff" in the back of the truck, I got to thinking ..

How much does the sailing equipment, the "Stuff" weigh? Any idea what the
add on weight of all the extra equipment a cruising sailboat carries weighs?

Malcolm Tennant is a local (Auckland) designer of high performance
catamarans. A few years ago he tld me of one of his very fast 40' cats
which the owner used to race only semi-seriously - the rest of the
time he cruised. So he had cruising gear on board even though he was
trying to keep the weight down.

Then came the entry into one of the more important coastal races which
really mattered. The owner thought he had better take out all this
cruising stuff which wasn't really essential. Two tons later he was
still taking out stuff ... :-(



Eric Stevens