I visit this site almost daily, seeing if anyone has something to say. I have a boat that needs new motor mounts and I am hoping that Bill - boatyard worker will be back this spring to help me through this adventure. I keep wondering how my boat is doing under all the snow up on Lake Erie, 2-hrs away.
I have a Cape Horn and enjoy it though I am still trying to learn how to set it correctly. When you sail Solo, it is a bear to set, but that maybe that I am a rookie on setting them. I have been dreaming about this problem also. When you put the Cape Horn on, make sure you have someone small to crawl into the back end of the boat to tighten up all the nuts and bolts. I got stuck one time when the boatyard worker had to leave while I was 3/4 of the way in the small back cockpit locker tighting a nut or two. Without someone to pull me straight up and out, I had to flap my legs and lower body in the air to wiggly myself out of the locker. No one saw this but it would have made you roll over laughing see two leg flopping in the air with upper body attached. It took 20 minutes to get out on my own and I was beat for the day. The second time I had to down there, I made sure the boatyard helper stayed and it only took a minute in and out to tighten up the last nuts, that were too far a stretch to get to and we did try that first. I will always remember that moment with my boat, as I almost became one with her on that warm day.