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Personnally i will say, better cockpit sole. The one for accessing the engine is badly design always problem with it.
Better drain system on deck, and like John lee said a shoe on the rudder for not catching rope (Talk to Bika about that when their anchor robe snag on my rudder and Nina jump to rescue the situation during the night ! )

For the sail control, a better system for the boom. The one i got from the old contessa give a big shafing problem and not a lot of sail control. Probably lift a little bit the companion way from the cockpit floor. I got problem with that on heavy seas water coming onboard.

Well that bring another question on the rebuilding .... The goal of making a new Co26 if for what exactly ... for offshore sailor, for cuising, for lake, for weekend cruiser .. The way you sail change a lot the boat that you need !

Depend, your talking for cruising or for racing.

Cuising no batten by my own opinion, not even on the mainsail. Too mutch problem and it ript the cloth too mutch.

For racing, that another story !

Sorry to be so late on the answer.
Well i gat a autopilot too, because some time its better.
Singlehanded on a port, its faster putting the autopilot to do some maneuver.
In real light wind too, the autopilot work better, same thing for really close to the wind.

On my last boat, i lost my windvane 350 miles offshore on a collision with whales. So just for the fact
to have a backup, to don't do again 70 hours at the helm its another reason why i got it.

Hope that help.

Peter: Well the remote for me doesn't worth it. From the inside you can see the compass, and i look around everything 35 minutes offshore for ships so doing 2 steps more to adjust the autohelm is nothing. And normaly you dont change course that much for needing a remote ! My point of view .

I found a good formula :
Oar Length

The best formula I have found for oar length was in the May 1994 issue of "Cruising World:

Oar length = 1.5 x width of boat  +  1" for each inch of freeboard greater than 9" + 1" for each foot of boat length over 8' + 3" to 6" for rower strength  +  6" for a sliding seat.

Hope that help, cause the one that you give doesnt take care of the freeboard, that is pretty high on the contessa for rowing.

Hi, i want to remove my diesel too and replace it by oars.
Can you tell me what your test give it to you. And share some of the tricks you learn from it ?

Thanks

Stephane

OOo yeah, your ready to trust so mutch your laptop.
A computer doesnt even work well in a normal environnement like a home so in a boat....

I did around 2500 miles offshore sailing last year with only my laptop for navigation, i did it but i dont recommend it.
It help well when you enter a inlet in the night because most of the buoy doesnt all the time work, but i needed to carry a lot of spare part and repair my laptop pretty often. Computer repair is my normal job, so it was not too hard for me but i dont recommend it for somebody with small experience.

Having it its good, but i will never leave without at least some paper chart that cover the area where im sailing. Because if your laptop go down it like you say, your gps, your charts, your weather instruments your radar everything go down and that its without talking if a electric failure occur (Thing that happen pretty often on a blow).

Disons plutot 5 francophones maintenant

Shannon, can you send me the picture please, or somebody else.
Thanks
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