Mixed topics in this one ... > National Yacht Club had a Hunter drop during lift out a few years back. The > bow was wounded badly. Rumor has it that the forward sling position was mark too far forward. At NYC it is the owner's responsibility to place tape on the toe rail where the slings should go. The Hunter slid off the forward sling and went down a short distance nose first. The hole through the bow was reported to be caused not directly from the fall but a loose spinnaker pole or boom inside the boat falling forward. Punctured a hole right through the fiberglass.
> Michael if you ever need crew I'm available! Steve Will do. We also run practices on the weekend and MOB drills. Though with the water temps it may not be the first week of May ;-) Might also do a practice run to DYC and back, maybe some night sailing. > Don't know how your local racing is regulated, but a whisker pole more than > 1.5 J is usually not allowed. > John McLaughlin >From the current PHRF-LO handicapper's manual: 7.2. WHISKER POLE Effective April 2009: There will no longer be a penalty for oversized Whisker Pole lengths. 7.2.1. One whisker pole only shall be used. 7.2.2. Provisions of US Sailing rule 54, prohibiting sheeting of sails over or through outriggers, are specifically voided for whisker poles used according to the provisions of this paragraph. The reference to US Sailing rule 54 is dated. 54 now states: 54 FORESTAYS AND HEADSAIL TACKS Forestays and headsail tacks, except those of spinnaker staysails when the boat is not close-hauled, shall be attached approximately on a boat’s centreline. Likely refers to this: 50.3 Use of Outriggers (a) No sail shall be sheeted over or through an outrigger, except as permitted in rule 50.3(b) or 50.3(c). An outrigger is any fitting or other device so placed that it could exert outward pressure on a sheet or sail at a point from which, with the boat upright, a vertical line would fall outside the hull or deck. For the purpose of this rule, bulwarks, rails and rubbing strakes are not part of the hull or deck and the following are not outriggers: a bowsprit used to secure the tack of a sail, a bumkin used to sheet the boom of a sail, or a boom of a boomed headsail that requires no adjustment when tacking. (b) Any sail may be sheeted to or led above a boom that is regularly used for a sail and is permanently attached to the mast from which the head of the sail is set. (c) A headsail may be sheeted or attached at its clew to a spinnaker pole or whisker pole, provided that a spinnaker is not set. Though common holding out a sail or sheet by hand, boat hook or anything that is not attached to the mast / spinnaker ring may be against rules. At NYC if people hold the #1 out a bit in light shifty winds to prevent chaffing on the spreaders no one seems to worry. I see differences club to club in the PHRF ratings, length of whisker poles is one of the more common one. Michael Brown Windburn C&C 30-1 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 17:46:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Harben <sailadventu...@rogers.com> To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List Whisker pole - 32 Message-ID: <1396658778.47199.yahoomail...@web121903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ... National Yacht Club had a Hunter drop during lift out a few years back. The bow was wounded badly. The year after, a mast dropped with people and boats around. I was in the dry sail area watching the process with wide eyes. I did the stop and warning from a distance ... scary. ? ????????? Don PS I sailed at NYC in the old two story wood clubhouse that backed on the Ball Stadium. There is picture of the old clubhouse in one of the meeting rooms. There were no docks in the basin, only moorings. I dry sailed Lightnings out through the moorings and the gaps ... most boats andsailers lived to see another day ...LOL Message: 11 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 22:28:38 -0400 From: Stevan Plavsa <stevanpla...@gmail.com> To: Don Harben <sailadventu...@rogers.com>, "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List Whisker pole - 32 Message-ID: <CADdEvn5zW=hbQZ0OdhZc2+BUwW7bdz5pRPf=9BThp=hdpom...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Michael if you ever need crew I'm available! Steve Message: 12 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 22:37:17 -0400 (EDT) From: johnr...@aol.com To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Whisker pole - 32 Message-ID: <8d11e8f183ead2b-828-2a...@webmail-vd018.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Don't know how your local racing is regulated, but a whisker pole more than 1.5 J is usually not allowed. John McLaughlin C&C29-2 "Falcon"
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