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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: Dave Welker ([email protected]) contact the author Subject: trailer launching Info: (22299 views) Posted: Saturday 6-14-03 01:14:59 AM |
Our only choice on Maui is to trailer launch and retrieve. There are no Travel lifts or Dry sail hoists. We have two 2 x 12 boards that sandwich the keel support and guide the keel into the proper position with the help of two 3/4" PVC guide pipes connected back to the aft hull supports. Instead of a front guide wheel we have attached a "sacrificial" 4x6 timber under the tongue that allows the tongue to slide up and down the ramp and yet keep the tongue low to compencate for the ramp angle. With a 50' 3/4" nylon line between the truck and trailer, we slide the trailer down the ramp until the rear hull supports are under water, pull the boat unto the trailer. We then connect lines from the forward part of the trailer frame, up, to the primary winches and suck the boat up, tight to the bow stop. Then we haul her out and re connect to the reciever hitch and "viola". Our hauls and launches usually take about ten minutes. It's all in the organizing.
Aloha Lono
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