If you get your boat put back together in time for the Sarasota Regatta on Labor Day weekend, how are you going to set it up? Are you sailing with or without crew and are you using the spinnaker or not? I am planning on attend as well and it is always nice when more than one Taipan shows up for a regatta to sail in the same configuration if possible. Let me know your plans and I will try to sail in the same configuration. I would like to try and sail as Taipan sloop (if I can find crew) in order to get some practice for the Taipan Nationals in November. If I can't find crew, sailing Taipan uni is good since we can race the NACRA 5.5 Uni's boat for boat. It is hard to live up to the Taipan's rating with spinnaker in very light winds which are the conditions I am expecting in Sarasota unless there is a tropical storm nearby over labor day weekend.

Jennifer
Taipan 4.9 #262