I was sailing in very windy conditions last weekend - 20knots or more, and lowering the mainsail onto the sailcaddy basket worked well. The wind pushed part of the main over the basket, but it was easy to pull it back in. I motored back to the marina, with mainsail lying in the sailcaddy basket and ...

My '99 Mac is truly dry also. Perhaps three times in the last 5 years I've had a very little amount of water in the bilge. It either came from the fresh water containers, or perhaps from a bad storm, and somehow rain or condensation got down there. But, it's been really rare!

Rick

I think if you log into www.sailcaddy.com the animation and other pictures might answer most of your questions. You manually deploy each arm both port and starboard of the boom individually. Friction keeps them verticle. The brackets are mounted about 25 inches apart (I think I threw out the instruc...

Took "On-Assignment" out Friday afternoon for a long afternoon sail. Winds blowing out of the NorthWest about 8 to 10 knots. Before leaving my slip, I deployed the Sailcaddy, and unsecured the mainsail and it stayed in the Sailcaddy without incident. Out on the lake I pointed "On-Assi...

I used my son's barbell plates to straighten out the actuators. I just placed them on the actuators and time and the sun did the rest. Also, I bought a small can of Sailkote over the weekend from West Marine. I'll spray the slugs and most of the track on the mast to help the mainsail fall efficientl...

I understand your reply. I have never had very good results with lowering my mainsail in any other direction than heading directly into the wind. I bought the SailCaddy with the intention of singlehanding the boat more often, and I'm trying to eliminate the step of going up on top to pull the mainsa...

If anyone is interested in getting the SailCaddy. Mine arrived last week. I installed it on my boom at home. (My boat is in a slip) It took only a couple of hours to install it. Put the boom with SailCaddy back on the boat this morning. And it works fine, fits well, no major problems. For the money ...

Got my SailCaddy today! Paul Drew DeMaster and others how did it go? Did you have any problems installing it? Any tips you might have or anything yoy might have done differently? I'll probably install mine sometime this week.

Rick D'Amico
Phoenix