[Rhodes22-list] First Time Out

[john Belanger]

jay friedland is right there on lbi in beach haven. i'm sure hed be glad to help.
john b
s/v 1969 venture 21


--- On Mon, 6/30/08, michael meltzer <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com> wrote:

> From: michael meltzer <mjm at michaelmeltzer.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] First Time Out
> To: "'The Rhodes 22 Email List'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 8:50 AM
> First off,
> 
> Time to offer up some beer and rum, what you need is for an
> owner to visit
> your boat(or you go out on their), and give it an once over
> that you have
> the rigging/systems set up right, the rhodes22 is not
> rigged like most
> sailboat so one look will do you wonders, most likely
> nothing is
> broken(other that you taken a lot of the life out of the
> jib). 
> 
> Second one I suspect you did a classic mistake of
> transferring "twist" to
> your standing rigging wire, it will break the wire in very
> short order,
> please take off each turn buckle one at a time, make sure
> the wire is at
> "reset" i.e. slacken out, not twisted/untwisted.
> than put the turn bulk
> buckle on holding the wire side with a wrench, hand tight
> only.
> 
> Take some course, you should have the "us power
> squadron" in the area, they
> do basic seaman ship and navigation pretty cheap. Take it.
> Also you need
> some "on the water time", best bet is going out
> on an owner boat an leaning
> the "ticks".
> 
> 
> -mjm
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of
> MichaelT
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:09 PM
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] First Time Out
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> After working on the boat for the past several weeks and
> taking down the
> mast for the 1st time to add a new pop-top slider, windex
> and pre-wiring for
> a vhf I was finally set to go. Replaced my first impeller
> on the 20 year old
> yamaha 8hp, hiking stick w/ coaming box, all the
> wiring/lights tested and
> operable as the former owner never had a battery installed.
> And a solar
> panel from GB to boot.
> 
> So I went out for the first time for the season yesterday
> this being my
> first boat, first season. Everything was going swell. Wind
> was 5-10 mph. 2
> hours later the wind picked up a notch and still all was
> well. When it was
> time to go home, we lost our bearing and realized we were
> downwind and
> started to beat the wind. The boat started to heel and heel
> a lot. So much
> we the jib started touching the water and scooping water
> from the gunnels. 
> 
> The wind picked up even more and this when the problem
> started. I decided
> that it would be best to take down the sails and just motor
> in. We tried to
> head the boat into the wind and couldn't. Boat still
> heeling. We let out the
> sheets to steady the boat. Tried to furl the jib in.
> Furling jib is
> stuck.What to do? While the boat was heeling, wind is now
> 20+, I go forward
> to check the furling unit and noticed that there was hardly
> any line in the
> spool. I had to hand wind the sail itself and was able to
> roll in about
> 2/3's of the jib. The 3rd still flapping. I grabbed the
> boom, lifted the
> topping lift, released the outhaul which just flew away and
> pulled hard on
> the main sail furling line and thank goodness the main sail
> furled in. Motor
> down, motor started and we now were heading into the wind
> motoring, the jib
> still flapping. I noticed that my mast stay turnbuckles on
> the starboard
> side was being turned loose from the flapping jib.
> Turnbuckles was
> reinstalled w/o cotter pins by our marina guy. Which way to
> tighen? Counter
> clockwise ok. Settled down the jib on the mast stays.
> Swells were building
> up and we would hear the motor wining when it caught air.
> 
> As we started heading into our channel at Cedar Creek, our
> point of sail was
> now a beam reach and the 1/3 of our jib sail started to
> heel us over and now
> the motor was all air wining. Placed the motor in neutral
> while we sailed
> and instructed my partner to throttle the motor when the
> boat flattened. We
> finally made it into our marina, in our slip without
> fanfare as the marina
> was sheltered form the winds in the Barnegat. It started
> raining cats and
> dogs the moment we were gathering our things to pack up.
> Secured the dock
> lines, lifted the motor and rudder off the water. We just
> left the boat amd
> went home.
> 
> What do I do now? I might have broken the furling jib when
> I physicaly hand
> wound the whole unit. Where do I even start to figure out
> why there wasn't
> any line in the spool. Is it possible when the mast was
> taken down that it
> may have gotten unwound? How do i get the furling jib back
> in order? Other
> questions linger...Why couldn't we head into the wind?
> Center board was
> down. We're we just having fun heeling and seeing the
> jib touch water or
> were we already in danger?
> 
> Thanks for listening and appreciate your input...
> 
> Michael
> Rhodes 87', Silverside
> 
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