[Rhodes22-list] Chesapeake Sailing

[Caesar Paul]

Hi Mary Lou,
 
Lots to learn from you guys.  I lubricated the lower bearing on my IMF, but did not even consider applying Mclube Sailcote on the slot as well to reduce friction when furling the sail.  
 
Caesar

--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:


From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Chesapeake Sailing
To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 9:02 AM


We haven't been out yet. Cleaning the genoa today (I know, we should 
have done it in the fall but it has to be done outside on a tarp.)

You should be able to furl the main even in those winds. The boom has 
to be at just the right angle (up and down - we find that just below 
horizontal works best) and centered. In high winds, we generally will 
be motoring into the wind when we furl it.

We try to remember to use McLube Sailcote on the edge of the slot and 
the lower bearings before we raise the mast for the season, but we 
forgot again this year. I'll do it as high as I can reach and it will 
still reduce friction. We sometimes have to help the outhaul through 
the blocks if it seems to be binding there.

You don't always have to go around the bar at Herring Bay. I wouldn't 
do it in a high wind situation, but we've gone out across that bar 
many times. I also wouldn't do it when the water is all blown out 
from a north wind but generally at anything but dead low tide it 
shouldn't be a problem. We just go to where there is 4 and 5 ft 
showing on the chart and cross there. I don't think we've ever seen 4 
ft. there. Of course the shoaling changes from storm to storm so we 
are cautious and have the depth sounder on.

Glad you are getting out on the new boat.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 11:25 AM 4/27/2009, you wrote:

>Did anyone get out on the Chesapeake Bay this past weekend?  I am trying to
>get to know my new boat and tried to take her out Friday but the wind was
>blowing a good 18 knots with gusts above from the SW direct into the
>Herrington Harbor North inlet, white caps, good size waves and too much
>wind.  I started to take out the main and tack back and forth around long
>bar then decided it was too windy and too much sea.  But then I couldn't get
>the main back in because it was blowing back and forth so much.  I continued
>to motor sail to a leeward shore and was able to take the sail in and ducked
>into Herrington Harbor South for a break from all the wind.  My gps
>registered 7.3 knots when I motored back to HHN at half throttle surfing the
>waves back home.  Saturday was a much better day to sail with 3-6 knot
>winds.
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