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#26757 12/09/03 04:16 PM 12/09/03 04:16 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 12,310 South Carolina Jake
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Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | wrap it several times around both feet....that seems to do the trick .... sorry...work is killing me today.
Jake Kohl | | | Re: main sheet washing overboard
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#26760 12/09/03 06:41 PM 12/09/03 06:41 PM |
Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA Kevin Rose
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Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA | [quote]Isn't that the crew's job? ...... Come to think of it, isn't *everything* the crew's job?[quote] You're right, Tracie That's why in the past year I decided just to give the whole responsibility for the mainsheet to the crew, trimming and all. Let's see, crew now takes care of jib, main, downhaul, rotation, barberhaulers, boards . . . .
Kevin Rose
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[Re: Kevin Rose]
#26761 12/09/03 10:51 PM 12/09/03 10:51 PM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 12,310 South Carolina Jake
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Posts: 12,310 South Carolina | to continue Kevin's list.... ...lunch, beer distribution, blame, beach wheels, etc. Besides, steering is an important and thankless job!
Jake Kohl | | | Re: main sheet washing overboard
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#26765 12/10/03 11:42 AM 12/10/03 11:42 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 285 Hampton, Virginia Tracie
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Posts: 285 Hampton, Virginia | [quote]Isn't that the crew's job? ...... Come to think of it, isn't *everything* the crew's job?[quote] You're right, Tracie That's why in the past year I decided just to give the whole responsibility for the mainsheet to the crew, trimming and all. Let's see, crew now takes care of jib, main, downhaul, rotation, barberhaulers, boards . . . . Oneday we'll all revolt. Then you'll be sorry. Muhh-ha hahahaha Tracie | | | Re: main sheet washing overboard
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#26766 12/10/03 12:42 PM 12/10/03 12:42 PM |
Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA Kevin Rose
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Posts: 397 Burlington, Vermont USA | Oneday we'll all revolt. Then you'll be sorry. Muhh-ha hahahaha
Tracie Looks like a hidden potential for manufacturers of A-class boats
Kevin Rose
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[Re: Mary]
#26768 12/10/03 03:54 PM 12/10/03 03:54 PM |
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Posts: 3,114 BANNED | It can uncleat itself in this fashion. It can get caught on something in the water. It slows the boat down. It puts the sheet out of reach of the skipper in the case he needs to blow it. I could name others. Did I pass? | | | Re: main sheet washing overboard
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#26769 12/11/03 12:52 AM 12/11/03 12:52 AM |
Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 48 Georgia and Texas Jim Stone
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Posts: 48 Georgia and Texas | A trick that works for me (fyi... I also have the hook velcro at the back of the tramp) I have a mountaineering grade caribiner that I run the main sheet through. The carabiner is then attached to a high quality snap shackle that is attached to my harness. The mainsheet follows me hands free in hectic or crash conditions and also acts as a safety line if I were to get washed overboard...the mainsheet sheets in as I get towed/trolled and the boat capsizes instead of sailing away...if in trouble or hooked up just pull the lanyard on the snap shackle and the caribiner and main are free to go. That's a little something that I have added as a safety and control feature for distance racing. Fast and safe sailing, Jim Stone | | | Re: main sheet washing overboard
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#26772 12/11/03 10:40 AM 12/11/03 10:40 AM |
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... Mary
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Posts: 5,558 Key Largo, FL & Put-in-Bay, OH... | It can uncleat itself in this fashion. It can get caught on something in the water. It slows the boat down. It puts the sheet out of reach of the skipper in the case he needs to blow it. I could name others. Did I pass? Rick has always held his own mainsheet, but my job as crew was to make sure the sheet stayed on deck. He explained to me that the reason he gets so frantic when the sheet washes out the back is that the pressure can be so great (water pulling the sheet) that he would not be able to release the mainsheet and let it out, if necessary. | | | Re: main sheet washing overboard
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#26774 12/12/03 02:59 PM 12/12/03 02:59 PM |
Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 2,844 42.904444 N; 88.008586 W Todd_Sails
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Posts: 2,844 42.904444 N; 88.008586 W | I use a continuous mainsheet/traveler line, as do most.
I put the slack after my sheeting hand, inbetween my two largest toes, even have O'Neill booties, with a slit there as well fro the cold days.
Never washes over board.
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