| Home | Events | Dues | Roster | Crew List | Messages | For Sale | Articles | Photos | Rules |
| Delta Ditch Run at Stockton Sailing Club/Richmond Yacht Club | June 2 |
| Story |
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| Regatta Message Board |
| Reply | Post New Message | All Messages | this message is spam |
| Author: Garry Owens ([email protected]) contact the author Subject: Re: Cleats, etc. Info: (22491 views) Posted: Wednesday 9-5-01 08:10:00 AM |
>>Is everyone using mid-range cam cleats for their genoa and jib cleats? We're having a terrible time breaking at the mid to top end of the #1 (which may be a timing issue, but...). I'm considering installing large jamming-type horn cleats instead...any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>>Also, I plan on cutting up a ruined genny soon to make a couple of boom slings for the spin pole. If anybody needs replacements, let me know dimensions and I'll see how many I can get out of it.
>>
>>
>>Jason, I would love to watch the excitement on your boat if you install horn cleats on the jib sheets and you have to make a forced tack such as when you are on port and a starboard crossing boat appears out of the traffic. I assume you are using Harken cam cleats and surprised you are having failures, I used the same cleats for several years on an Olson 30 with a much larger sail area and never had a failure. If it is timing of the release on the tacks causing the failure it may be saving you damage to the sails and the cam cleats are a lot cheaper to replace than sails.
Garry Owens
| Reply | Post New Message | All Messages | this message is spam |
|