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My friends used to laugh about me, seems whenever they asked my advice
I'd pull out a drill and talk about putting holes in their boat.
...Some things never change.
Evil Waves came to us with a lot of extra deck fittings and not
much below so we found ourselves changing things above and below deck.
The biggest modification we made was to add a table below. There
wasn't any table when we got the boat. But, we didn't want a big,
heavy thing eating up the middle of the boat where the spinaker was
supposed to go. We wanted a small, light table to hold our laptop
computer where the helmsman could see it. Researching every catalog
we could find we came up with a cockpit table that we could easily
modify to fit on the bulkhead. It just holds the computer and
doubles as a serving and food preparation area when we are not sailing.
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A wet area hanger
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Her new navigation center.
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Santana 30/30's are very, very sensitive to weight in the bow. So
the only thing that the bow is good for is storage when you are not
sailing. So we decided that this would be our "wet" area and added
a hanger for our foul weather gear. We also store our sails in the
bow when we aren't racing.
On deck, we changed the vang. The orginal vang could be trimmed
from both sides, but it was too heavy and fouled easily. We moved the
outhaul back to the boom so we could let it all the out. The line was
too short to be led to the deck. The Jam cleats for the primary
winches were worn and we replaced them with Cam cleats.
And we replaced the deck compasses, the old ones didn't work any more.
I'm sure there will be more changes before the end of the season. We're
already looking at a new arangement for the Jack stays and new
jib tracks.
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