Re: [bolger] Digest Number 2894
In a message dated 5/15/2006 1:51:16 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
My question - what is a simple approach to improving
the sheet? Hanging on to that line - there has to be a good simple way
to rig the sheet so that it can be quickly released saving disaster. I
bought a couple of simple blocks but not real sure what to do with them.
What I did on my Shell Boats "Swifty" was to run the sheet from the horse to
a block on the boom, through the block and back down to a block (I used just
a large screw eye) then forward so the end of the sheet was grasped in the
same hand as was on the tiller. If for some reason I had to allow the sheet to
fly I simply loosened my grip on the tiller. I learned that lesson after
taking a swim in my Bolger Cartopper and found I was sitting on the end of the
sheet when I had to allow the sheet to fly during an unexpected jibe. (Sailing
on an inland lake is different than sailing in nice big ocean bay.)
That was lesson #2 in dumb sailing stunts, Lesson #1 was never get out of
the boat on the lee side when the bow is beached. Lesson #0 is that everyone in
the boat has a floatation jacket. And remember to have some kind of line or
lanyard on all equipment, oars, lunch box, etc.
Bolger, Payson Car topper
14-9 foot Swifty
John Meacham
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bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
My question - what is a simple approach to improving
the sheet? Hanging on to that line - there has to be a good simple way
to rig the sheet so that it can be quickly released saving disaster. I
bought a couple of simple blocks but not real sure what to do with them.
What I did on my Shell Boats "Swifty" was to run the sheet from the horse to
a block on the boom, through the block and back down to a block (I used just
a large screw eye) then forward so the end of the sheet was grasped in the
same hand as was on the tiller. If for some reason I had to allow the sheet to
fly I simply loosened my grip on the tiller. I learned that lesson after
taking a swim in my Bolger Cartopper and found I was sitting on the end of the
sheet when I had to allow the sheet to fly during an unexpected jibe. (Sailing
on an inland lake is different than sailing in nice big ocean bay.)
That was lesson #2 in dumb sailing stunts, Lesson #1 was never get out of
the boat on the lee side when the bow is beached. Lesson #0 is that everyone in
the boat has a floatation jacket. And remember to have some kind of line or
lanyard on all equipment, oars, lunch box, etc.
Bolger, Payson Car topper
14-9 foot Swifty
John Meacham
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