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Out For Some Hard Water Sailing This Weekend.
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The weather conditions and schedules finally lined up this weekend for some sailing. My brother and I met up on Rose Lake with my DN and my Dad's Skimmer. From there we spent about six hours out on the lake. Ice boating is some serious fun for those of you have never tried it. It takes sailing to a new level. While conditions were not perfect we were still skimming along dodging drifts at around 35-40 mph. Speed sailing. Keep in mind my boats are just cruisers the racers go faster. Here are some videos and pictures of the day.
Go for a DN Ride.
Go for a skimmer ride.
Back to the DN
In the zone.
The old DN still slides
Dress warm because it is cold in the 20's today not including wind chills and there will be wind.
View from the sidecar. Hang on tight. Just before my brother Jibed and tried to throw me out.
Bro and my niece of for a scoot around the lake
My DN set up with my brother's sidecar for ride alongs.
Spinnaker Socks are super nice for launching and recovering your spinnaker. My last two boats have had them and after using one the benefits are clear. 1st off, sail handling is much easier especially if you're short-handed. 2nd, safety spinnaker socks let you launch and recover your spinnaker without everything being perfectly packed in a turtle bag another word fewer things to tangle up keeps it safer. Woodstock does not have one so we have not used the Spinnaker yet and our trip to Lake Mac last week would have been the ideal time to use a Spinnaker. So it is time to look into this. $17.00 per foot x 28 ft =$476 plus tax. Hum lets go see what's in the garage. Any past readers remember this old post Boom Tent Well this is one sewing project that didn't work out. However, I still have the material sitting here on a shelf and it is light enough and long enough to make into a sock. Now just to find one of those fancy fiberglass hoops they use to ...
This post is a quick reference for rigging the main sail of a Cape Dory Typhoon. Each boat over time has different modifications made to it based on the skippers preferences so your boat may not be exactly like this one. However this is how I put mine together. I first start with tuning the mast in. I like to have a bit of rake in the mast and to be sure that it is in column. Next I slide the booms goose neck into the mast. I slide the boom down to the sail stop and make sure it is tight with a screw driver. Then I clip the back side of the boom to the back stay catch. After that I get to work on untwisting the main sheet. My current main sheet set up goes something like this. It is a bit of a variation from the original set up. You can see I still use one of the original Schafer stand up blocks to guide the sheet line to the cam cleat but the Harken fiddle block does most of the heavy lifting here. Later this season I'm hopping t...
So this season I have been gearing up and changing my rigging around bit by bit as I find pieces here and there. My ultimate goal is to rig up a mast top spinnaker for use later in the season. So far, I've got the mast head halyard set up. Today I took the next step and installed a removable compression post. My Typhoon has the saddle supports that came with older Cape Dorys but I thought it best to add a bit of extra support before trying out the mast head spinnaker. So here is what you will need: A nice piece of teak, two other (less nice) hardwood boards for underneath the floor cut to 4 1/2 inches, epoxy, 3M permanent mounting tape and a master lock adjustable door jam.. I routered the teak to give it a soft edge for when I bang my head into it. Nice board ready to install. Setting the Teak upper. I drilled holes in the back of the teak plate to match the mast step through bolts. I did not remove the mast step and ...
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