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[quote=Edchris177]Not to hijack the thread, but I see Nacraman57, & Philip here today.
 I flew out to L.A. to look at a sail & jib for my 5.7, bought it & met a really interesting guy with tons of experience, right up to racing tornados at the Worlds,(many years ago). He even had an old photo of sailing with Tom Roland on a 36' Cat. He built battens for Nacras, along with several Tornados, and his current boat, a 21' Nacra he built-all carbon fibre, I could pick up a hull, 65 lbs! A carbon mast was hanging under the carport, along with a ton of surfboards. I could pick up that mast with one hand!
The afternoon was a combination of American Pickers & Sanford & Son,(c'mon lots of you guys are old enough to remember that show). He had a bunch of busted Nacras.
Anyway, thanks to the photos/measurments Nacraman sent me, I got the correct beam V brace.
Philip, don't worry about those cleat parts I needed to replace, I now have enough spare parts to keep my 5.7 going til I die. This gentleman had literally drawers, & boxes upon boxes of them. Philip. I also now have  a car loader, several spare dogbones, a DS rod, full set of foam core battens, AND ALL THE NEARLY NEW END CAPS I NEEDED. They do exist.
I bought a new GPS for driving around L.A. & up the coast. It showed that Carpenteria  (Murrays) was a 4 block detour, so more stuff was obtained. Man this was better than Christmas!
Of course my wife needed a day of shopping also, hhmmm, maybe those parts weren't so cheap after all. 
I brought a large steamer suitcase, a double ski bag & a snowboard bag, so Monday morning I'm going to try & get the good folks at Air Canada to accept the better part of a 5.7 (sans hulls & mast) as checked baggage!<em>Edited by Edchris177 on Nov 07, 2010 - 11:01 AM.</em> [/quote]

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