Well designed little crabber, I’ve had one in the past and found it well balanced with a decent amount of ballast making her well stable in a dinghy gale. Enjoy mike

Your welcome lm a cape cutter fan and have been close to owning one a couple of times. Fast fun easy to handle gaffer, have a great season mike

Well that just makes it all worth while making them, thanks very much mike

Hi Ralph, if you picked up one thing then it was well worth making. Regards mike

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Welcome, glad to be of assistance mike

I’ve just done my Tahiti ketch sails as well. Thanks Mike

Hi Ajax, well it's just one sail so good luck mike

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Your welcome David 👍

Glad you liked it!👍

Here’s hoping it’s a better season than the last one, thanks for your comment I hope I provide mike

Cheers Chris, a star ⭐️ thanks mike

From one mike to another your very welcome 👍

Go out in light airs and everything should fall into place, you shouldn’t get into much trouble in light airs and hopefully you will have plenty of time to work and test the rig. Good luck mike

Cheers Mark

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Gavin your very welcome mike

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Hi Chris, thanks for sharing, most kind of you mike

Welcome mike

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Watch “Sailing east Anglesey “ for tips on reefing mike

Hi Jonathan make off at throat and tack cringles mike

@@sailingcosiloveit great, thanks.

Good question, I do but find it difficult to line this cleat up from the mast even with the line extended. Really need to move it closer to the mast. This is a job on my list. I find you mostly want to make adjustments when the boom is out or you are at the mast anyway. The fault with the factory fitted cleat is that you can’t reach it when at the mast or the boom is out. I do my reefing for 1 & 2 at the mast as well. I don’t get on very well with the single line reefing. I have been thinking of running the outhaul back to the cockpit. This is work on the go.

@@sailingcosiloveit food for thought; thanks Mike! I have another question for you. Do you have any experience with lowering the mast and getting it back up again? I will soon put mine up for the first time. I have some doubt about doing it by hand as indicated in the owner's manual or use a crane. Also do you have any idea about the tension that should be applied to the shrouds? I found no information about that.

Hi ye I’ve used the tabernacle to lower my mast it worked well. I did though use a fence post with a hole in for the fulcrum instead of the bowsprit. I also made a gallows for the mast to come down on a the stern. This was just to 3x2 crossed. The hardest part is just before the mast gets to the gallows as it wants to drop at this point. From 20 degrees to vertical is easy. So make tall gallows. I’ve done this on the water in a marina which I think works best as you can use a step ladder to lower off the pontoon with ease. The rigging on mine is not set loaded as with a gauge. It’s quite heavy rigging and to load it would cause damage I’m sure. Set mine hand tight on the turnbuckles then when out sailing add half a turn to each buckle if wire is loose on leeward side until 90 percent of the slack has gone. Hope this helps mike

@@sailingcosiloveit Thanks for all the help Mike. I used two old carbon fibre (surfboard) masts connected with a lashing to push the mast up to about 45°, after that it was easy using the jib halyard. Your video helped a lot at rigging the mainsail and I will come back to it to further fine tune it. For now, we had a successful launch and shake down trip to her new berth. If you like, I made a short video impression (rest assured, I have no intentions to compete with your youtube channel ;-) Please feel free to remove this link if you think it is inappropriate (I found no way to send it in a private message): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gahzg5d_vsvehY0.html

Hi Ian the lacing up the mast on the luff is only to help you keep the sail in place as it is lowered. It shouldn’t carry any sail weight when in use. The sail should be taut between the tack and the peak and not require any lacing assistance. Similar to a tach and an out haul on a boom don’t require assistance from reefing lashings. Hope that’s clear for you if not please let me know. Regards mike

@@sailingcosiloveit Thanks Mike makes sense and clear ,like I said still trying to get out of my over tensioning habit and looking to go back to a small gaffer from Bermudan rig so enjoy gleaning info from your videos, One other quick observation I notice some gaffers dont seem to have a kicker and some do what's your take on this as a bit confused. Cheers Ian

With a gaff main if it has a standing yard then the twist will be minimal requiring a kicker. If the yard has an angle over 30 degrees then it will twist lovely and will have minimal requirements for a kicker. Hope this helps mike

@@sailingcosiloveit Cheers again Mike it helps getting my head around it .

Hi Liam, ye I do use reefing lines on gaff rigs. My favoured way is to tie off on the boom. Just back from the goose neck I would cleat off the tack and just behind that I would cleat off the clew for the first reef. This is by far the easiest way to reef a gaff and all without leaving the mast. I would then tie the sail tidies under the sail and Not the boom. Gaffs are the easiest mains to reef and cos they are normally generous sails the most rewarding. Kind regards mike

@@sailingcosiloveit Many thanks Mike, I thought you must have, but could not see them. BTW I think your video must be the only useful one on the internet about how to rig a gaff mainsail. After years of running one up a groove in the mast, it was a bit of a palava for me.