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[quote=catmodding]So, got caught in some violent winds witch were not predicted, capsized 4 times. 
The 4th time I was so tired, I could right the cat but couldn't get back onboard. After 10 min hanging at the righting-line and several attempts to get aboard, I decided to fire a smoke-signal wich is always in my life-vest. 
Watertemp was 10degr C and Airtemp 11degr C .
Was rescued by a friendly skipper who even gave me a tow back to the cat-beach.

An elderly skipper at the cat-club (67), showed me his setup how to climb on board. 
He tied a 12 mm line to the front crossbar hull to hull, the slack on the line is just deep enough in the 
water to put a knee or foot on it , while you're in the water. 
When you try to climb onboard this line will go under the tramp and is not very helpful.
Now here's the smart-part, he braided another line to center of the boarding-line, ran it through a block 
attached in the center of the bridle for the forstay. Tied a stopper-knot behind the block to prevent the 
boarding-line from going under the tramp. 
The stopperline is braided to a shock-cord witch is ran under the tramp, it keeps the whole setup out of 
the water while sailing.

Here's a drawing,
[img]http://www.thebeachcats.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=100983&g2_serialNumber=3[/img]

Fiddled a bit with line-lenght on my P18-2, and now it works perfect and makes my wintersailing-project 
a lot safer. 
If somebody is interested, will post some pics.

Regards, André[/quote]

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