Spare part is not a problem, if the producing company is still in business. You can always order parts via the internet, and have them delivered, or make your own. This site (catsailor.com) has a nice inventory of parts and equipment. There are several other stores as well, inside the EU (saves you some tax, sometimes I wish Norway also was an EU member..).

You will find that this forum, and the class e-mail lists gives the best support there is. Unless you happen to live really close to the shop, and the shop owners are active cat-sailors themself.

If there are any catsailors around where you live, buying the same boat as they have might be nice. It's funny how quickly the lust for some racing comes over you, and then having similar boats is nice..


Otherwise, I think Wouter just came with some good advice!

Wouter: I'm sure you mean "drive _down_ to the Netherlands" ;-) Finland was quite a bit north of you, the last time I checked the map (ahh, semantics..)