In looking for ways to make it easier to right my 1984 Supercat 17, I ran across this from the Habermans.

It seems like a great way to right a beachcat.

Have any of you guys tried this with other cats??

Power Righting

Step #1 is to turn the boat into the wind, bows pointing into the wind. This takes a drag chute deployed off the bow. (This will pull the bows into the wind. Now the mast is perpendicular to the wind.)

Step #2, at this pull the mainsheet in firm, leech relatively straight. and force the main traveler car down to the down hull by pulling it down at first by hand and then stepping on it. (The mainsail will form a large pocket over the water and it will inflate, the mainsail will fill and bulge up toward the sky.)

Step #3, the mainsail is now generating enough lift to right the boat. As the boat rights itself, the person standing on the traveler car steps or rolls forward onto the trampoline.

Step #4 Uncleat the mainsheet and put a few feet of slack into the system and recleat it. (The drag chute is still holding the boat, both bows facing into the wind.)

Step #5, get the rest of the crew aboard and retrieve the drag chute and sail away.

Bill mentioned this is how he rights his SC20 and RC30 and it is simple and easy and takes no brute force.

Any observations from the rest of you guys...I thought it a great technique I will try myself.

(I wonder if it would work on the Stiletto 27...just kidding..!)

Tom