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| Congratulations to Dianne with their win in the Elite Keel Regatta.
Here is Steve's Top Ten List that he has submitted for publication. ELITE KEEL STORY-A LIST OF TEN THINGS THAT HELPED DIANNE 1) The crew: Jarian Westfall, Laurel Schmidt, Mike Pastrone, Jeff Fellicetti 2) Will Paxton wasn't there. 3) This crew can change head sails, the hanked kind, in less then 2.3 minutes. 4) Wilie E Coyote didn't race Sunday. 5) Sun was shining. 6) It was my birthday weekend. 7. El Raton wasn't there. 8. We went left when we could. 9. The wind was blowing. 10. This crew has 59 combined years sailing with me. |
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| Author: Brendan Busch ([email protected]) contact the author Subject: Life without winch pads Info: (20235 views) Posted: Tuesday 3-18-03 06:18:00 PM |
My boat came with Lewmar 24s and no teak winch pads. I've been planning to put them back on (they came with the old winches in a box of stuff), but based on the Override thread maybe I'll reconsider. Not having the winch pads we get lots of overrides, particularly with the #1. My crew only uses 2 wraps ever, and then they just manhandle the thing in--I'm waiting for the cleat to rip out of the deck...
I use blocks on standups as fairleads, and I tried to get them as low as I could. If I could get them just a little lower, I'd probably be OK. I'll probably just use large eye-straps or something as fairleads.
In any case, no teak winch pads = overrides, just in case you were wondering. But I never have trouble with the line hanging up on the pads :)
Does anyone out there have the perfect setup?
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