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by Catch 22
Wed Jul 20, 2011 8:40 am
Forum: Welcome to the PDQ Forum
Topic: Catch 22 on the Chesapeake
Replies: 16
Views: 35776

Re: Catch 22 on the Chesapeake

All: Clearly there is a wonderful camaraderie to the PDQ community and there seems to be a real desire to sail the boats to their best potential possible – makes our decision to go PDQ even better. Though I have been sailing and racing for many years I am always interested in the nuance of our addic...
by Catch 22
Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:46 pm
Forum: Welcome to the PDQ Forum
Topic: Catch 22 on the Chesapeake
Replies: 16
Views: 35776

Re: Catch 22 on the Chesapeake

Wow! Thanks to all for the advice and techniques. I can see pretty much everything we were doing wrong—not wrong really just not appropriate for the PDQ. Can’t wait to get out this weekend and try this advice out. Hmmmmm, wonder if I may be getting deathly ill and need to stay home the next couple o...
by Catch 22
Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:59 am
Forum: Welcome to the PDQ Forum
Topic: Catch 22 on the Chesapeake
Replies: 16
Views: 35776

Re: Catch 22 on the Chesapeake

Whoa! Thanks for the quick response…wish I could get that kind of response at work. Anyway, thanks for the advice and why it happens—the whole process was driving me nuts since I have never had problems tacking a boat in that past. This weekend we will be out on Herring Bay doing tack after tack unt...
by Catch 22
Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:32 am
Forum: Welcome to the PDQ Forum
Topic: Catch 22 on the Chesapeake
Replies: 16
Views: 35776

Catch 22 on the Chesapeake

Hello all: My wife Bobbie and I bought the PDQ 36 ‘Catch 22’ last year in Florida and sailed her up here to the Chesapeake. We are life long sailors newly converted to the multihull world - wish we had done it years ago. That said, we could really use some advice: - What is the secret to tacking her...