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petekuhn
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Initially Posted - 10/17/2007 :  23:32:21  Show Profile
A few members of Cal Sailing Club just finished a project to install secondary flotation in our '81 Capri 25, named Pomodoro cause it's red, that we use for lessons and fun on the San Francisco Bay.

It's the most modern and fast keelboat in our fleet, since the other keelboats are Pearson Ensigns and Commanders.

Some of the older members are convinced, based on what they've read on this forum, and on their exceptional sailing savvy, that the Capri 25 will soon turtle and kill someone. One of them frequently says that there's evidence of this to be found on this list. (Need I mention that they might view the club's boat as competition to their getting club members to crew for them on their own boats, which are the same vintage as the Capri 25?)

Our Pearson Ensigns have added flotation, since the club sank one of them on a spinny broach a couple decades ago. The Commanders have no secondary flotation at all, which is scary considering the state of their thru hulls, the number of places on the bay that have sharp underwater obstacles, etc.

The secondary flotation we added to our Capri 25 consists of sealing off the space under the V-berth, and gluing in foam blocks under the cockpit floor. It's about 26 cubic feet of flotation, as near as we can calculate.

I took two decent pictures of the flotation, which I'd hoped to include, but it looks like this forum won't allow you to post them. To see them, you'll have to join
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cal-sailing/

and then click on
http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/cal-sailing/photos/browse/577c

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Response Posted - 10/18/2007 :  08:32:39  Show Profile
Peter: The way to post pictures already on the web is to "copy" the complete URL for the picture (right-click it, then select "Properties"), paste it into your post, highlight the URL, and then click in the header.

Hope that helps...
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 10/18/2007 :  13:22:31  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
The ubiquitous J-24 has a retrofit for "flotation" that involves sealing bulheads fore and aft. It never hurts to safety up.
As for a training boat in SF Bay... not my first choice but the deck space and cockpit will be excellent and I am sure everyone will have a great time. We have had several in the racing fleet at my lake over the years and they all go away due to the number of high wind days where they are not competitive, but the owners invariably love them while they have them.
I assume you are familiar with this film, it shows that a Capri can take a knockdown and handle it.
http://www.splashvision.com/Video/6426_Capri-25-Sailing-Round-Down.html
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 10/18/2007 :  14:38:10  Show Profile
My old Venture had huge styrofoam blocks (1'x1'x5') stuffed in the area below the cockpit and the space below the V-berth was chock full of styrofoam.
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