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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by solvasoncc[/i] [br]We recently took our Catalina 250 down to the Texas coast and made a little video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJq6DPXD7o&t= Had a great time in spite of a bit of a rough start launching the boat with my wife. Two main issues: (1) Check the bottom of the mast before traveling. The top of ours is open and dirt daubers build nests in it occasionally. Eventually it will dry out and all of that dirt fell will fall to the bottom. I discovered about a foot of dirt in the bottom of the mast when I went to put the pin in [:0]. Took a lot of effort to get enough out with the mast precariously perched. (2) Leave enough winch strap line out when raising. We didn't and managed to get it tangled at the roller and snapped the connection between the jib halyard and the winch strap when we were only about 4in away from inserting the forestay pin. Luckily I caught the forestay, but my poor wife had to hold the mast up while I remade the connection. Thankfully, both of us (and the marriage) survived. I plan to mark the strap next time to ensure I have let enough of it out. [img]https://www.catalina-capri-25s.net/cgi-local/MBRimg.cgi?+2958+5069[/img] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.