Cal 40 Illusion
Boat modifications, equipment, sailing practices, and photographs
The practical modifications and sailing experience documented aboard the Cal 40 Illusion. The original articles and their permanent URLs are preserved.
Hull, machinery and onboard systems
- Engine installation and engine box
- engine controls
- Freshwater and diesel tanks in keel well, bilge pumps
- stiffening the hull, extra storage, propane locker
- head plumbing, backup bilge pump, shower drain pump, holding tank pump
- emptying sink when under sail, new counter
- Floorboards, mast drain, and how to keep water off the floorboards
- hatch leaks, foredeck and lazarette
- table for cruising
Deck, rigging and sails
- anchoring gear, chain storage, bow roller
- Chainplates
- stanchion bases, toe rails, mooring cleats
- standing rigging, staysail stay, running backs, doublehead rig, heavy weather jib, mast pumping
- roller furlers, jib hanks, reefable solent jib
- mainsheet and traveler
- Outgrabber on spinnaker sheet
- Cal40 sail crossover chart
- varnish longevity on cockpit coamings
Electrical, instruments and navigation
- LiFePO4 battery installation
- Autopilot
- Navigation Lights
- VHF and AIS masthead antenna installation and coax testing
- VHF coax loss calculator
- radar, removable
Sailing, racing and photographs
- Illusion background, upgrades and photos
- Man Overboard Procedures that we used on ILLUSION
- Hauling and blocking a Cal40
