San Diego: holes; public service and disservice
San Diego: holes; public service and disservice
Yesterday I removed deck hardware from around the mast, leaving twenty holes, which I then filled with epoxy.
The gray rectangle, which is the former color of the deck, near the center of the lower edge of the above photo is the former location of the starboard two halyard clutch. The red and yellow line is the elusive main halyard running directly to the winch. You can see that the clutch needs to be moved to be in line. This is true of the two halyard clutch to port as well, which as we all know, controls the jib halyards and NOT THE MAIN HALYARD!
I moved those clutches today; but because the halyards also run a bit higher off the deck from the new mast, had to fashion risers for the clutches, which rendered the old bolts too short. I’ll bike out tomorrow and try to find the right bolts, and an additional single clutch for the spinnaker pole topping lift, which formerly ran to a cam cleat.
The other hardware isn’t needed any longer.
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In addition to my brain, two other items failed the recent sail.
One was my older day water jug. Made of metal it is indestructible, but has no handle and is too big to hold from one hand and pour. Pouring with two hands is not GANNET’s way. When I tried to use it, I spilled far more than I poured. It is gone.
My other day water jug is slightly blue tinted plastic through which you can see the amount remaining, has a screw top secured by webbing, and a handle. I may buy another as back-up.
Long time readers may recall that for about twenty years I’ve wore Sebago Schooner boat shoes. Last year a pair bothered my feet, so I tried something else by a company called Irish Setter, I think. They’ve been satisfactory, but I decided to experiment further and this year have bought two pairs of shoes, one from Sebago, to the left above, one from Sperry, to the right.
The reason for two pair is that using sailing shoes for daily walking around quickly wears down the tread. So the idea was one daily pair; one sailing only pair.
I wore the Sperry on the recent sail and was surprised, even amazed, when on several occasions they slipped on the Treadmaster in the cockpit. In my experience Treadmaster is the best non-skid deck surface extant. Nothing slips on Treadmaster. Or so I thought.
On Friday I conducted an experiment here in the slip. The cockpit was dry and level, as apposed to wet and inclined as it often was while sailing. Still I took in one hand a Sperry and a Sebago and tried to push them across the Treadmaster. The Sperry slid. The Sebago stuck.
This is hardly scientific, but the Sperry is now my daily shoe and the Sebago my sailing.
Sunday, August 4, 2013