Re: [bolger] Digest Number 2702
Rule Number One: Thou shalt never take your wallet, camera, cigarettes, or
other non-aquatic items aboard a small boat unless they are in a double
sealed container with a paper towel between the inner and outer containers.
For fun sailing (as opposed to racing), I usually make sure the foot of the
sail is high enough to see under without effort. The difference in speed,
if any, is imperceptible.
And also, never sit on the main sheet, nor let it wrap around you ankle, nor
let it snag in the tiller/hiking stick joint, nor ... Why did I have to
learn each of these on a separate occasion?
Roger
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other non-aquatic items aboard a small boat unless they are in a double
sealed container with a paper towel between the inner and outer containers.
For fun sailing (as opposed to racing), I usually make sure the foot of the
sail is high enough to see under without effort. The difference in speed,
if any, is imperceptible.
And also, never sit on the main sheet, nor let it wrap around you ankle, nor
let it snag in the tiller/hiking stick joint, nor ... Why did I have to
learn each of these on a separate occasion?
Roger
derbyrm@...
http://home.earthlink.net/~derbyrm
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From: <catboat15@...>
> This system worked fine until one day at a local lake the wind started
> coming around a hill on the other side as I sailed down the lake. An
> accidental
> gybe resulted, which should have been no problem, except I found I was
> sitting
> on the slack of the main sheet and could not let it run. Resulted in a
> long
> wet push to shore to dump the water from the boat and soaked wallet. This
> was
> with a Leg O Mutten shaped sail.
>
> John's sailing rule number CXIIV, sub paragraph 23(i) "Never sit on the
> main
> sheet."
In a message dated 11/16/2005 5:00:59 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
with much flapping of
the sail and difficulty getting the mainsheet from one hook to the
other. Does anyone have an alternative sheeting arrangement that makes
this a bit less dramatic?
Paul: On my first "cartopper" (now building a second one) I simply left off
the "hooks" for the main sheet. Ran the main sheet from a snap ring on a
"horse" (3/8 inch line from one stern brace to the other) through a block on the
boom and hand held it at first. Later I added a block on the tiller just over
the hinge point so I could hold both tiller and main sheet with one hand.
This system worked fine until one day at a local lake the wind started
coming around a hill on the other side as I sailed down the lake. An accidental
gybe resulted, which should have been no problem, except I found I was sitting
on the slack of the main sheet and could not let it run. Resulted in a long
wet push to shore to dump the water from the boat and soaked wallet. This was
with a Leg O Mutten shaped sail.
Did you put the "window" in your sail? One problem I had was the necessity
to "peek" under the sail to see what laid to downwind when I was on the water.
Kept running down those kids on the "jet skis" ha, ha.
John's sailing rule number CXIIV, sub paragraph 23(i) "Never sit on the main
sheet."
John Meacham
High desert of California
Bolger Cartopper.
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bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
with much flapping of
the sail and difficulty getting the mainsheet from one hook to the
other. Does anyone have an alternative sheeting arrangement that makes
this a bit less dramatic?
Paul: On my first "cartopper" (now building a second one) I simply left off
the "hooks" for the main sheet. Ran the main sheet from a snap ring on a
"horse" (3/8 inch line from one stern brace to the other) through a block on the
boom and hand held it at first. Later I added a block on the tiller just over
the hinge point so I could hold both tiller and main sheet with one hand.
This system worked fine until one day at a local lake the wind started
coming around a hill on the other side as I sailed down the lake. An accidental
gybe resulted, which should have been no problem, except I found I was sitting
on the slack of the main sheet and could not let it run. Resulted in a long
wet push to shore to dump the water from the boat and soaked wallet. This was
with a Leg O Mutten shaped sail.
Did you put the "window" in your sail? One problem I had was the necessity
to "peek" under the sail to see what laid to downwind when I was on the water.
Kept running down those kids on the "jet skis" ha, ha.
John's sailing rule number CXIIV, sub paragraph 23(i) "Never sit on the main
sheet."
John Meacham
High desert of California
Bolger Cartopper.
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