Almost ready to launch!

[Davo]

I've been spending a lot of time putting the pieces together of my 23 (I bought it in a state of various levels of disassembly for a refit that never happened), and it finally looks like a sailboat and I'm getting really close to launch for the season!  I've asked a few questions around here already and you all have been pretty helpful, I am tremendously excited to get on the lake and am so glad I stepped up to the Com-Pac from my Catalina 22.

Here's a shot of it mostly set up to launch, I still need to put the teak handrails back on...

[hockeyfool]

Nice bow pulpit and sprit - wish I had one , I have the base bow rail without sprit.
Also I see your second forestay - nice to have for hanking on a sail for more trim or for a storm jib. 

[Salty19]

Very nice.  Converted to a cutter rig, too.  Nicely done sprit with whisker stays.  Would love to do that to our CP19..probably won't but a guy can dream, can't he!?

You'll have to report back once you get her in the water.

[Billy]

Nice bow pulpit and sprit - wish I had one , I have the base bow rail without sprit.
Also I see your second forestay - nice to have for hanking on a sail for more trim or for a storm jib.  

I have a new longer pulpit (the SS one) but no sprit. Actually I kinda like it without because it gives me a place to sit on the front of the boat in front of the sail without have the forestay in the way.

[OrionNC]

Where did you get the bow pulpit and sprit ?

[Davo]

Where did you get the bow pulpit and sprit ?

I am not really sure, the puplit came with the boat but was never installed, I had to persuade it (with an angle grinder) a little to get it to mount around the anchor roller and bobstay plate.  The PO had other boats and it could have come off of one of those (I have a non stock traveller installed as well from the PO, maybe from the same other boat) or maybe it was a new order.  The bowspirit I think is a homemade fiberglass beam that extends from the bow with a teak board on top of that and it extends back over the deck a foot and a half and is bolted through the deck as well as to the fiberglass spirit.

[Davo]

To update, I actually got on the water on Monday, took only 10 minutes to launch, and then 4 hours to bring out the worst of my humanity on the motor trying to get it to run.  I had it running the day before for a long time and I think once I let it sit overnight with fresh gas it loosened some crud up that was still in there from sitting for a while and clogged the carb up so after boat hooking and paddling my way across the entire marina to get into my slip, I went out a few days later and disassembled the entire carb (while on the boat no less) and cleaned it all out and as soon as I got it back on and full of fresh gas the motor fired right up and runs great now, except that it was dark by the time I got it all back together and the last few days have been rainy so I have been in the water for the entire week and still have yet to actually sail!  Hopefully this weekend will work out, I'll let you know how it goes...