[Rhodes22-list] Boom!

[elle]

Ed,

Good article. Thanks...

BYW...the boom clears my head nicely when I'm in the
cockpit (yes, it is in the lower position...;^)...but
can a preventer of sorts be rigged on our boats since
we don't have vangs?  (We did have a vsaang preventer
set-up on our other boat..)  I do have midship cleats
on the side decks.....as well as the traveler blocks
also....on the side decks.



elle


--- Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> I have posted the following several times: "Sailors,
> there is a reason it is
> called a boom.  When you hear the boom and go
> overboard you may not be
> conscious.  Will you have on a working PFD (personal
> floatation device)?"  
> Paraphrased from Harmon Heed
> 
> The latest Sailnet newsletter as just updated a
> article worth seeing:
> 
>
http://www.sailnet.com/forums/seamanship-articles/19281-deadly-serious-about-booms.html
> 
> Has anybody not hit the boom?  Has anybody done an
> unintentional jibe?  The
> Rhodes list does not want #17...
> 
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> 
> 
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We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


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