Old Trips

March 27/05

• fixed wing track

Settings

• Caps: moderate breeze - 30, heavy breeze - 34, pin placement at 7.5
  
• Halyard check: with the mast set, fit the spin halyard in the notch at the front of the first spreaders, pull it taut so that it is just tangent to the mast at some point below that spreader. Check the gap between the halyard and that mast at the top of gooseneck fitting: 3cm is good for Norths, 2.5cm otherwise

• Jib: set the tack at the first knot
• Main halyard: 2nd or 3rd hook (more and you risk the mast)
• Wings: all the way out
• traveler: 2.5-5cm behind the back of the rudderbox

Rigging Notes - Spinnaker

• The chute opens on the port side: make sure halyard, etc. clears the jib on the port side
• The retrieval line goes underneath the foot first
• Tie a stopper knot ~30cm from the top eye.
  

Launch

• In wind, when manoeuvring on land and you're forced to go cross-wind, crew grabs a trapeze line to stabilize the boat
• Put the daggerboard in the box backwards.
  
• Untie the dolly from the boat before going in the water, but not until you get to the water
• In the water, the crew holds at the windward shroud. The boat has a tendency to turn off the wind when flat/heeled to leeward and into the wind when heeled to windward, and this is aggravated in gusts. Slight windward heel is best.
• Skipper climbs in transom and sets blades: daggerboard halfway, rudder most of the way in
• Crew in and go

Sailing notes (light air - 4 to 6kts)

• Keep the wings out of the water - boat slows down, AP wind goes back, sails load up even more... recipes for disaster, no. 47 in a series.
• In light air, going upwind, the crew goes forward of the mast, lies down, and plays the jib. Skipper drives and balances.
• Boat should have a slight leeward heel
• Keep the leech open (lots of twist) - there is more wind higher up the mast, AP wind is further back
• Tacking: roll tacks - heel to leeward, turn, invert the heel, step to the wing and give the mainsheet a firm pull to snap the battens across

Landing

• Get everything lose ahead of time (daggerboard, rudder)
• If you come in deliberately slow (i.e. sails stalled), then you will have less control. When you round up into the wind, the sails will turn on and load up, the boat will heel, and if you're distracted getting blades up (i.e. in the centre of the boat) you will end up providing some midday entertainment for the crowd on the patio (see the next trip).