Flicka Koremikre

Gabriel Warren wrote about trailering Koremikre in Flicka Friends #66 (Winter 2018), describing the A-frame he built to raise and lower her mast. The Aries windvane makes lowering the mast a little more difficult, and when the mast is connected to the tabernacle its balance point falls aft of the pushpit, so the frame does double duty as a support while the spar is moved forward or aft. He preferred the A-frame to single-pole schemes because the mast cannot get away laterally, and reckoned that it and its stern crutch together took only a couple of hours to build.

The same piece records some of her fittings. Warren added a sea hood to give the solar panels a home and to anchor the dodger, and cheek plates — different ones for raising and for lowering, hence the multiple holes — without which the mast cannot lie flat. She travels on a Triad trailer, which he thought generally good but had a list of complaints about in salt water — the brakes, he noted, can lock up within an hour of being dunked.