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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: Ralph Deeds ([email protected]) contact the author Subject: Re: Toe rails, thanks, etc. Info: (25309 views) Posted: Sunday 5-5-02 01:48:00 PM |
(1) To keep crew from falling overboard when they cross during a quick tack.
(2) To add strength to the hull.
(3) To provide some protection in T-bone collisions. I was hit by a much heavier boat and hate to think what the damage would have been without the toe rail. The damage to the bow of the boat that hit me was much worse than to my boat.
(4) To provide a place to attach a snatch block for jib reaching, twing blocks.
(4) To keep tools from rolling into the water when you are working on your boat at the dock (especially for wet sailed boats, not so important for dry sailed ones).
In my opinion, the class made a mistake in not probibiting the removal of the toe rail. The crew comfort problem can be easily solved by pop-riveting or fastening with electrical ties a piece of PVC pipe on the inside of the toe rail where the crew sits when hiking. See Flying Circus at Richmond YC. We copied theirs.
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