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Thanks! Sorry for the delay in replying! No, the daggerboard case isn't new, at least by me. I believe the original builder may have installed one after the fact, for the same reasons you mention. My Jarcat had (I've since sold this boat due to lack of off-season storage space and a new baby) small skeg keels, and I experimented with sailing without the daggerboard down and experience the same issues you mention. While it would sail, the sideslip was very noticeable, and forget about tacking! It would either refuse to come all the way up, or come up just enough to get caught in irons. That being said, I found it to have the rather typical small catamaran aversion to tacking...very light with lots of structure above the waterline, so low on inertia and high on windage. I worked out a process that worked great though. As I begin the tack, I would keep the main sheeted in and let the headsail run some to encourage the boat to weathervane around the daggerboard. As she came into the eye, I would loose the mainsheet and sheet in the soon-to-be windward jibsheet, backwinding the jib and reversing the weathervane effect, which would push her the rest of the way around to fall down into the new tack. Then simply loose the windward jibsheet and sheet in the main to arrest the weathervane effect and get her accelerating, and then sheet the leeward jibsheet in and set the jib. If all the above failed and she got caught in irons, she was very good about letting you steer her backwards into the new tack though, so it wasn't really all that frustrating the few times it did happen. Were I to have another Jarcat type boat that needed a daggerboard, I would be very tempted to experiment with either a Jim Michalak-style off-centerboard (think leeboard that pivots like a centerboard and functions on either tack) or a centerboard that was mounted to the underside of the bridgedeck. I've always been mildly concerned with trunks that penetrate the hull due to how difficult it is to inspect/maintain them inside the slot, and daggerboards can really ruin your day (or whole sailing season) if you strike something underwater at speed, especially in boats the size of a Jarcat. Something's gotta give. The centerboard concepts I mentioned above would simply swing up if you hit a deadhead, and I don't really think something like a Jarcat would notice the decrease in foil efficiency from a foil that enters the water at the surface rather than below the hull. Jarcats can move, but they're not exactly race cats...if you're pushing it to the point that you're cavitating your centerboard, you've probably long since overwhelmed the meager initial stability afforded by your street-legal 8.5 foot beam... *edited for grammer. It's later and I'm a few beers deep ;)

Thanks! I miss the west coast...on the east coast right now. My buddy and I did the MABDR last year, planning on going for the NEBDR this fall too! So I just used the Wolfman rack on that DR350, and they of course work great. My current bike (also an 06DR650) has DirtRack brand racks on it, and I use homemade aluminum panniers and a MotoFizz top bag. I did love the Wolfman drybag panniers... did the "trash can" mod to make em keep their shape.

Love it! Yeah they're difficult to find...I actually got mine off ebay, all the way from Germany haha. It sucks too, because all the Gixxer guys used to just think they were loser stock cans so they were cheap, but now people are figuring out that us DR guys really like em, so that (and the rarity) is really driving the price up. Before I found the fox40 can, I was about to just give up and settle for one of the other, less desirable options.

@@Edhooey thanks for the info.. i ended up buying a FMFQ.. but will switch to the GXer can when i find one... Ride on man !!!

@@ZSharkPH I just did the FCR carb swap back in October and then did the MABDR...that and a Cogent workup on the forks are the best upgrades I've done so far. All the hype about the FCR carb ain't no lie!

@@Edhooey Ive heard great things about the fcr... I went with the TM40 and very happy.. i have full cogent front and rear also.. big improvement.. i need to make a build vid in the future.

Not that dangerous, actually. Provided one uses some common sense...which is a problem these days, and is why everyone assumes failure and doom when they see something that's outside the box. Unfortunately, the video angle doesn't allow you to see that the limb is guy'd up to the main trunk of the tree. So even though the limb seems to sag a lot, it doesn't flex more than it normally does in an average breeze around here, and all the weight is transferred to the (two foot diameter) tree trunk. Essentially, the tree limb is only functioning as a gin pole; while lifting the boat, the limb only experiences axial compression. All bending or lateral loading is transferred via a 10K lb cargo strap to the tree itself. I didn't "get away" with anything. Being a catamaran, the boat is far lighter than it's apparent bulk would suggest, being built almost exclusively from 1/8" marine ply. Considering this, and the fact that this tree survives yearly hurricanes with aplomb, I have complete confidence that the process I used is AT LEAST as safe as using some janky rental scaffolding. Yes I've seen trees and limbs fail on people too; generally it is because they are individuals who, lacking the aforementioned common sense, just toss back a few lite beers, throw a block and tackle over a limb, and give zero thought towards re-enforcing the limb. I've ALSO seen scaffolding, gantries, and cranes fail...you can watch videos of this on UA-cam for hours...

Thanks! Hopefully I can get more video soon. I had to re-splice my standing rigging...forgot to factor in the Amsteel's 3% stretch factor haha.

Haha no they're just really old and over-uv exposed, but I'm too cheap to replace them yet. The little opening hatches in the front windows are lifesavers in the heat!

Yeah it works great, and I didn't have to do any modification to the can's mounting bracket to make it fit to the bike's exhaust hanger bracket. And no, the catamaran doesn't like wheelies as much as the bike does haha.