Prout Owners Association

Hello, Although I'm not expert on any Prout... I do own and sail a Quest 31. I find that on my 31 I can sail quite nicely on the stock configuration up to about 15 kts and then put in a reef on the jib. There is always the balancing of the sails after this point. As always, there is the question of ...

Hello, Hope all is going well with your refit. The doo-hickie your talking about, I think is a receptacle for the emergency rudder arm. My Quest doesn't have one, but I have always thought it would be a great addition to my safety equipment. I know of no one manufacturing these off the shelf. Take y...

Hello, Congrats on your new purchase. I do NOT have a manual, nor have I seen one for my Quest 31. I DO have manuals for most of the items that were installed though. I'm not sure there was an inclusive manual made for each unit. It would have been nice... I have seen a few Quest 31's and none of th...

Davit location. Our dinghy (hard shell one) sits just above the rear deck level. She is out quite a bit, but not too past the end of the rudders. I was very amazed at the attitude of the boat with respect to the chop. The dink bottom was fully slapping the the waves. I didn't suppose the hobbyhorsin...

Tomorrow we will be passing under a 45' bridge. Our first low bridge to test the height limit of our venerable Prout Quest. I hope I wasn't too optimistic about our height! After arriving at our southernmost destination, I'm going to tackle some of the ingress of water. I suspect that the hull to de...

Oh boy did we get spanked today. Predictions of 15-20 kts turned into a reality of 30 kts with gusts to 45! Short steep waves that literally stopped forward motion. We had hoped to use the outgoing tide to make short order of our destination approx 20 miles away. Heading south on the favorable curre...

Well, we have been able to test our Prout's keels carrying ability. Yes, we went aground at mid ebb tide and was pretty near high and dry by low, until the next flood. With help from a bow wave from a passing casino boat, we floated off unscathed (other than my pride!). We could hear the locals on s...

For those interested, Jenn and I have a blog of our ongoing adventures, which is now a sort of travelogue of our cruising down the AICW of the US. www.sunstargazette.blogspot.com Some questions have come up since starting this cruise (we are only 1/4 way into our trip down). Anyone else have a Bukh ...

Hello, My Quest 31 had approx 20 gallons of water in the Port skeg, but none in the Starboard. I found this by cutting an inspection hole and installed a plate for access in the front of each of the "water tight" compartments in the aft of each hull. There was an inspection plate on the to...

Hello Chris and everybody, Your so right. I remounted the davits that didn't sell. The first thing we did after purchasing SunStar2, was remove these huge davits. The previous owner had a 10' RIB and 18hp Nissan outboard hanging on the aft. I sold the RIB and the outboard and tried to sell the davit...

So here it is the next week and the tank is still dry! But, it is raining now and I get to view it tomorrow to see how much "drained" and how much made its way into the tank. The list for this past week. A specially "engineered helm seat. OK OK...I'll take some pictures tomorrow to po...

updates: the port tank is dry now. has been for two days...no leaks and no seepage...YEA! My aft rails (pushpit) is starting to look like an antenna farm. gps, XM radio, cellular, and finally a new 8' vhf to do away with the slapping mast mounted vhf. Running the wires has been fun. At least with th...

What a week. I'm going to complain here, so if you don't want to read a middle aged man rant....change channels! I cut out the bulkheads in the aft berths. There were rotten and had a really small access holes too. I realized that there was standing water in both "wells" created just forwa...

Hello all....I'm working feverishly to finish much needed improvements so Jenn and I can cut the cords for the winter. This brings me to a few more questions. How many have opened up the "air tight" floatation compartments aft? I cut out the rotted bulkhead installed over the tank. This en...

Hi Chris, We installed two hatches in the deck, one forward the head and one in the forward starboard berth. Then in the cabintop we mounted one over the double berth, just forward on the existing hatch over the salon table, and one over the galley and one over the chart table. I'm now trying to fig...