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Date Posted: 10:00:17 06/02/08 Mon
Author: Ari
Subject: Macha pics

This weekend we went out sailing with friends from the sailing club in Berkeley. Short tacked out the estuary, across the bay, poked our nose outside the gate a bit, back in, anchored at Paradise Cove north of Angel Island, then back the next day. We had everying from topsail weather to working sail weather to oar weather.

While we were rocking back across the slot in 25-28 knots, some guy in a Zodiac showed up and asked if he could take pictures of us. (Actually I thought he was my friend Zac who sometimes drives a Zodiac for the city of Oakland, so I greeted him with an apparently unexpected "Hey motherfucker!!!") I guess Mr. boat-Paparazzi runs a business taking pics of boats and selling them as stock photography. Anyways, fans of WN7435NN should check out:

http://lyonsimaging.smugmug.com/gallery/5076868_HC4Dm#P-1-20

Looking at the pics I see some trim problems that kinda make me cringe. We were having problems all weekend with scallops in the jib. I kept tightening the jib forestay, but in these pics the jib halyard knot is right at the sheave. Eventually I had a "Duh!" moment and realized I should have been loosening the jib stay and tightening the bobstay, which would tightened the stay while giving the luff of the sail enough room to stretch out. Also, the mainsail looks it is oversheeted by about a foot. You can also really see a shitload of twist where the gaff vang would have helped.

Ah well, I suppose that's what photoshop is for... hehe.

Jay, if you read this, there are two mysterious lines on the boom that we have yet to figure out. One is a block and tackle with a 'biner on one end. I believe to reef we attach the reef pennant to the biner and pull taut. Correct? If so, do you just put a bowline in one end of the pennant? Also, there is a line that loops around the back of the boom, and is then leads forward along the bottom of the boom where I seem to remember it's just got a block or something near the goose neck. Is that a vang or something?

Sailing back to the dock was hilarious. Due to lighter wind and stronger flood than anticipated, we missed the 4:30pm slack tide by about 45 minuts and instead docked in about 1.5 knots of cross current. All the drunken powerboaters on our dock kept waving their arms and shouting useful comments like "watch out... there's a current" They also like to get really agitated when we take practice tacks across the estuary to get the range on our dock. As we approached the dock, they all stood at the "ready" to catch our docklines. We told them "no thanks, we've got it." With four aboard we had plenty of brains and muscle for the job. Sarah's precision tiller work on our approach, Marnie blowing the staysail at just the right time. Brad on the bowline and me on the midship spring and directing Sarah's angle of approach from the rail. We just nudged the dock and lept off in unison to make off the lines. All the marina neighbours spontaneously broke out in applause. Fucking A.

Ironically, directly across the Estuary from us was shiny new powerboat driven onto the rock breakwater in broad daylight by some drunken retard. His boat was about 3 feet above high tide line, so me must have really had the throttle open. (in the no-wake zone -- Karma!) The only thing crazier than a boat without an engine is a boat WITH an engine and a guy at the helm with three neurons rattling around his skull.

All in all a kickass weekend!

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