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[guync5]

I am new to this site and look forward to sharing information and ideals with everyone. I am going to need a lot of help. I am 58 and haven't sailed in over 15 years. When I was about 14 I started on my neighbor's 12 foot wooden sailboat. Later he got a 14 foot Hobby Cat. I knew right away wet sailing was not going to be for me. I was going to be more of a cursing type sailor. For me there was nothing nicer looking then a wooden boat with portholes.
Around the same time I was able to join the Sea Scouts which were part of the Boy Scouts. I think they later changed the name to sea explorers. I don't know if they are still around today. We wore U.S. Navy blue jumpers for dress and on our working parties we wear the Navy blue denim shirt and Navy blue dungarees. Our Sea Scout leader had a 23 foot sailboat and he would take us out as offend as he could. This was the first time I got to experience a jib. That's when I decided someday I would have a 23 foot sailboat like his.
As I finished high school Vietnam was still going on and off I went into the military. A few years later I got stationed in California and was able to buy a used 14 foot Laser. Wet sailing but it was all I could afford. My wife and kids didn't like sailing so we ended up doing the motorboat thing. I still sailed the Laser and came across a used fix-it-upper San Juan 23 It needed more work and money then I had and I sold it.
Two weeks ago I bought a 1989 Com-Pac 16/2. I love these Com-Pac sailboats. They look like a sailboat should, portholes and all. This will be my first jib boat. Before getting it home I came across the sailboat I was going to work up to. I just couldn't pass up the deal. 1986 Com-Pac 23/2. So I am going to need a lot of help from everyone on how to rig everything. I went from no sailboat to two.

[wes]

Hey Guy - welcome! Where do you plan to sail your fleet?

Wes

[Bob23]

Well, Guy:
 I welcomed you elsewhere on this site so I'm chime in about the CP 23. I own a 1985 23/2 which is a slightly older sister to yours. It probably would be hard to tell them apart. They are wonderful sailing boats, not the fastest nor the highest pointing but definitely one of the prettiest little boats out there. (Disclaimer: I may be a tad biased.)
 They also have a tough little rig for a 23 foot sailboat.  I always describe them as a either a small boat that thinks its big or a big boat that's trying to be small. After you sail yours, you'll get what I mean.
 Feel free to ask any questions you may have...there is a wealth of knowledge here along with some real witty humor, wonderful writing and some good old wackiness. Welcome to the Compac-o-nauts! You may never be the same!
Bob23 in NJ  

[guync5]

Hey Guy - welcome! Where do you plan to sail your fleet?

Wes

Thanks, I will be most of my sailing on the New River, Jacksonville, area, NC.

[wes]

I sail on the Pamlico River between Washington and Bath. Maybe I'll see you out on the water sometime. Did you get either of your boats from Keith Scott at the Sailboat Company?

Wes

[guync5]

I did I got the 16/2 from him. I have not had the 16 or 23 in the water yet. Once I get the 23 in the water it will be staying there. The 16 will be going in and out. Since both boats are so high on the trailer will I run out of ramp before they will float of the trailer?

[brackish]

I did I got the 16/2 from him. I have not had the 16 or 23 in the water yet. Once I get the 23 in the water it will be staying there. The 16 will be going in and out. Since both boats are so high on the trailer will I run out of ramp before they will float of the trailer?

Welcome!

The only true answer is "it depends".  It depends on the length of your tongue, the size of your wheels, the grade of the ramp, how reluctant you are to get your tow vehicle wet, etc. I have never had a problem with my 23 on three different Florida panhandle ramps, one at Guntersville, AL and my home ramp at Bay Springs Lake, MS.  In fact I have never had to use the three foot telescoping extension that came with the trailer.  Can't speak for the 16.

[guync5]

The three foot telescoping extension for the trailer sounds like the answer. Where do you get something like that. I have never seen one. I have been looking for a longer recever for my hitch but can't find one.

[brackish]

The three foot telescoping extension for the trailer sounds like the answer. Where do you get something like that. I have never seen one. I have been looking for a longer recever for my hitch but can't find one.

It  came with the trailer (performance) and was designed that way.  It is a square tube within a square tube that can be pulled out and pinned at the longer length.  Others have had extensions made, I think you can do a search and find references to them.

[Billy]

Welcome a board!

Here is what I made for my 19...
http://cpyoa.geekworkshosting.com/forum/index.php?topic=5378.0

Mine is about 8' long.

[wes]

Guy - I have a 19, and my bunks are also high and I have no trailer extension. Even so, with the relatively steep ramps we have in NC, I haven't had problems launching. I find the stern floats up quickly as the trailer enters the water, which lifts the whole boat off the bunks. I don't have to fully submerge the bunks; usually the front foot or two stays dry.

Retrieving is similar, though I can never do it without getting in the water up to my knees to keep the boat centered between the keel guides. I have found that because of the heavy keel, our boats have a lot of inertia compared to typical daysailers of similar size. Makes it challenging at a busy ramp where there's a lot of wake from powerboats. I'm always envious of how those guys just zip right up onto their trailers under power.

Wes