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Technical Pages
Find out about: Rig set-up & tuning Sail setting Better sailing Spinnaker Systems Reefing Maintainance Tips & good ideas Outboards
Welcome to the technical section of the website.
This is for owners and enthusiasts to refer for setting the boat up and for better sailing. There is lots of great information to get you started in the manual, which you can also find here.
These pages are full of useful information, not included in the standard manual, gathered over the many years of sailing by the members and kept herein. If you have a suggestion or an edit please email Mike, the Technical Secretary who will review the information for inclusion in the pages.
Technical Articles
Attaching Fenders
Having found that occasionally additional fendering is both useful and necessary while river cruising, especially when passing through a lock, or tying-up alongside a rough river-bank, the problem was how…
More Fender Fixings
If you feel the need to attach fenders to your wanderer, here is how I have arranged mine:- I have a bow fender, a “V” shaped thing, about 14″ across.…
Fitting A Topping Lift
If you mostly sail with a crew, like to row or use an outboard, want to rig a simple boat tent or have a picnic afloat while at anchor of…
Avoiding Jib-forestay Tangles
The picture above shows a simple spacer that can be made up from a piece of Perspex [have also seen in wood -Ed] and three Holt Allen HA144 forestay jib…
Centreboard Friction Device
I had some problems with the centre board; It didn’t want to stay down after storage. It seemed that the “park” position compressed the friction pad so that it wouldn’t…