Plastic Classic Forum

Many thanks. I've attached an image of my stemhead. You will see two holes furthest forward. The forestay was in the second one back when I bought the boat. You can probably see the wear from the toggle in the image. The width of the stemhead at these forward two holes (white and blue arrows) is 9/1...

I have a Cape Dory 27. I found reference to a forestay diameter of 7/32" and ordered a harken mkiv unit 0 ocean furler. Back at the boat, I discovered the previous owner must've bumped up the wire size during the 2016 re-rigging. This means I either need to downsize the forestay to 7/32 or retu...

I'm also looking at replacing one of the AGM batteries with two of these which will fit in the same space in my battery box. https://ipowerqueen.com/products/power- ... n-100a-bms

I recently acquired my first boat, a Cape Dory 27. During my search for a boat, I had found a Pearson 303 that I had decided I would be ok with and scheduled a survey. In my excitement, I got the cart before the horse a bit and ordered some components to add solar to the boat. Then the survey reveal...