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| Delta Ditch Run at Stockton Sailing Club/Richmond Yacht Club | June 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)" |
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| Author: Marcia Subject: Mainsail Cloth Weight Class Restriction? Info: (12434 views) Posted: Wednesday 7-7-10 06:23:30 PM |
I'm not sure I'm reading this correctly, as it looks like it was promulgated by a sailmaker who didn't want to upgrade their sail making equipment.
Class restriction on the minimum weight of the mainsail to 16 LB:
“Total weight of the mainsail shall be no less than sixteen pounds weighed dry and without battens. Cloth concentrations used to bring the sail to minimum weight shall be defined as excessively heavy sailmaker's hardware. It is the intent of this rule to prohibit excessively light mainsail cloth weights.”
Why don't we want excessively light mainsail cloth weights? Perhaps we need to define "excessively light", because, dollars-to-donuts, with advances in sail cloth, I would bet any boat without a dacron main can't meet the rule limitation.
There are other limitations too that seem a tad outdated. Is the class going to be looking at these anytime soon?
Sincerely,
Marcia Schnapp
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