San Juan 21 Class Association

I also have re-cored the cabin top and the foredeck of my boat - Deuces Wild, #2 built in 1969. I would strongly recommend taking the keel out and turning the boat over so you are doing all the work with gravity as your friend. I rolled mine in rope loops about six feet apart - once the keel is out,...

With regard to SJ #3....I have #2 and the first time I weighed it, it had been out of the water for a while - it weighed 1176#. For real, class digital scale. Took the keel out - the pin had never been glassed in - rolled it over, faired out some big divots out of the bottom from sitting on a john b...

I was reading race reports from ya'll down in FL and saw sail #1, Pivot. Is that really #1? I have #2 in Oriental, NC. Bought it in VA about 10 years ago from a guy who drug it across from WA. Spent some of the intervening time on fairly major rebuild of the deck, cabin top, divots in the bottom fro...

Tommy - Up here in New Bern NC we have lots of SJ racing, starting with a class at the NYRA Invitational March 21-22. Cinco de Mayo May 9. SJ 21 North American Championships June 10-14. Also many of the SJ's race in our local PHRF races. Give me a shout at sailscanvas@ibscnc.com Welcome to the class...

Last I saw on the old list #1 was in Austin Texas...can't remember the owner name.

Many of the folks around here - East and Southeast coast - use travellers. Most have a Harken small boat traveller mounted in the cockpit somewhere near the forward limit allowed by the class. One big advantage comes in light air rather than a breeze. Pulling the traveller car all the way to weather...

The variation in gudgeon spacers is a result of refinement over the years. I have hull #2, my gudgeons are mounted directly on the transom with no spacer and the deck edge lip is cut away for the pintals. A friend's boat #255 has spacers under the gudgeons so the rubrail and deck lip didn't need to ...

Hi Danny - Welcome to the crowd. If your jib or genoa sheets are catching on the mast ring, make sure you have all the slack out of the weather sheet before you tack. Turn the boat in an arc of gradually decreasing radius - don't turn too fast, use your boatspeed to go directly to weather for a mome...

Marty - Sorry to be so late replying...hope you haven't been waiting for me. My thought for cutting out the corners is a 2" or so hole saw with the barrel laid flat on the hull so that the round hole cut out is cut thru the vertical sides of the anchor box. I've also heard of people cutting a 1" slo...

Windycorner - please see the post on used sails from MarkSailmaker - I have what you want...