Delta Ditch Run at Stockton Sailing Club/Richmond Yacht ClubJune 2
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Norcalsailing report featuring Summer Palace:
http://www.norcalsailing.com/entries/2012/06/05/ditchrun2.html#.T-iWoI2Mfqs

Below quoted from Pressure Drop: Drew Scott was helming a F-28.

"My crew is starting to swing around to pick me up when El Raton, in perfect control slides up beside me and asks if I would like to get picked up. They had already doused their chute and stopped beside me. I took their offer and got back into a boat (trying to stop a lightweight trimaran next to someone when it is blowing in the mid-20s is not easy so I figured I would not turn down El Raton.

My crew ably finished the race on Papillon, only one boat behind El Raton! And I had many adventures with El Raton, but that is their story to tell.

So, a great big thank you to the Ray Lotto and the crew of El Raton for pulling my soggy hide out of Suisun Bay!!

Drew Scott
Papillon (most of the time)"
Result
PosBoatTotalRace 1
1El Raton11
2Magic Bus22
3Peaches33
4Scandalous44
5Wile E Coyote55
6Loose Cannon66
7Take Five77
8Ergo88
9Great White99
10Libra1010
11Summer Palace1111
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Author: Mike Bruzzone
Subject: Mast step fiberglass compression issues
Info: (18600 views) Posted: Tuesday 11-10-09 06:29:47 PM
WIth or without the reengineered mast support on bulkhead, decks crack thwartship just aft of the step, parralleling the hinge of the step.

Is this where your step is cracked; or all around??

Rigs racked aft just do this . . . one solution is rocker the front edges so the rig can rock forward under compression.

Cracks first issue;. water damage that will destroy the plywood core under the rig; allowing the rig to smush down even further. Lacking reengineered structure, and with water damage, this is how rigs have broken through deck and original structure.

mb

:: The early hulled boats had problems with the bulk heads
:: warpping due to compression issues. I rebuilt and
:: enforced the bulkhead on Opus (hull#2) and I know Wile
:: E. Coyote was reinforced (hull #11). I think the problem
:: was fixed around hull #35 when they extended the bulk
:: head supports below the forward v-berth flooring. I know
:: #56 had the strengthened bulkhead, and all the newer
:: numbered boats.
::
:: But never had any issues with the actual core under the
:: mast itself. Sounds like water got in there somehow.
:: 

:: -Jason
::
:: :: The fiberglass beneath my mast step has a few cracks and
:: :: maybe even a bit of compression from it's normal
:: :: thickness.
:: ::
:: :: Anybody else noticed this on their boats? What can be
:: :: done about it?
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