P19 Tricks/Upgrades:

My boat is down at RHYC w/ the mast up. I’ll try to take some pic’s …. But I don’t know how to download them and post them on Catsailor ….

I didn’t comment on the loop/dogbone height because the other posters had it correct as to just touching the hull or 1” above … that’s how I have mine set at currently.

1) To clarify why I said to use a micro/air double block was because you rig both traps bungie this way …. Initially I had (4) blocks out of my spare parts box tied under the tramp, but I cleaned it up by using doubles.
2) I’ve been toying w/ changing the forward trap back to an “adjustable” so the crew can get just a little lower …. This is for mainly when I race in distance races and need to see over the crew when both of us are trapped out. In buoy races you are tacking so much that you don’t have the time to play w/ the adjustment … you need to concentrate on just making the boat go fast …. and you need to be able to get off the trap and on the boat …. From the helm position if you are too low you can not see/judge the waves/wind as well, and the hotstick starts to rub on the gunwales of the hull
3) When I converted the boat to a MX , I installed a Nacra 6.0NA bowfoil to reduce the horizontal forces on the hulls … that has worked well. But I,m not really sold on the HUGE overlap jib that Randy Smythe included in the MX sailplan … I’m not sure that the boat is really any faster then w/ a standard/stock P19 jib … I may go back to the “stock” jib …. I have a new “stock” jib stashed in my loft that I could use.
4) I purchased a BEAUTIFUL All White 25m Zucolli Tornado Spinnacker from Robbie Daniels (and Jill) several years ago. Robbie helped me with setting it up on the boat. I started w/ a 15’ carbon fiber windsurfer mast that I cut down to 14’3” added a dolpinstriker …. Filled in the “butt end” w/ marine-tex … used a H16 gudgeon (old style- non welded so I could bend it to the front crossbar curve) … carved out the marine-tex appropriately ….drilled 3/8” hole horizontally …used a cut-down Hobie rudder pin to attach the spin pole to the crossbar.
5) I installed a pad-eye at the mast head … used a “dangle” line to adjust the hoist height w/ a Harken Air or Micro Block … I have a small piece of spectra passing through the small shackle holding the block to the dangle that is attached to the mast … this small line is attached on either side of the mast through holes drilled into the luff track or you could install small pad-eyes also instead … this allows the spinnacker hoist block to move from side to side as the mast rotates.
6) I have never completed the last phase … the spinnacker is still “Bag-Launched” …. someday I have to install a “Snuffer “system. As some A-Cat sailors said as they looked at my P19MX when their where at my yacht club for a race recently …. looks fast but definitely “old school”

Please note that because of the bowfoil , the spinpole is carried low …. Resulting in very limited visibility to leeward w/ the chute up …. So because of that and the lack of a “snuffer system” I only use this set-up to do distance races/runs. But she is SWEET looking and SWEETER sailing.

Sail Safe, Sail Flat, Sail Fast
HarryMurphey
P19MX w/spin, #86/CRAC
H18mag, #9458/ Fleet54,Div11

I GOT IT TO WORK !!!!!!