Hi Andrew,

why dincha write to either us or to Palin? Huh? Merry merry, incidentally...

I have a curved traveller, but I ain't givin' it up. Harken will make 'em for you. If you like, I can get measurements of the arc for ya, or other info about the track I've got.

For the drop lever boom, go to
http://www.geocities.com/mec_coleman/18square.htm

This is Mike Coleman's site. Great resource for 18sq cats. Bookmark it, it's useful.

I met a fella at Birmingham recently. He had a Cat II sq rigged up with some interesting stuff, including a boom vang arrangement which is simpler than either the curved trav or the droplever boom.

Why aincha going to 31' mast while you at gettin' a new sail? Not that hard to add the foot to the head of the mast, and mine and Jay's are working out well. Fact, we prolly got some extra extrusion.

And, like the guy said, why 10' beam?

sea ya
tami