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[shellback]

Hi All,

I'm brand new to your forum and it looks just like the sort of thing I'm interested.

I got here by way of the UK website for Snapdragon 26's.  I've owned one of these for the last 3 years and it's been a blast.  There's currently a Snapdragon 26 thread going on and I hope I can learn more about my boat through it.

This summer I'm going to cruise Lake Michigan starting out from Milwaukee and just heading north.  Perhaps even into Lake Huron and the North Channel.  I'd like to do some of this solo.  I've already taken some all day cruises up the Lake alone and have really enjoyed it.  The boat sails herself pretty well on some angles so I don't have to man the helm all the time.  If I have to, I just heave to for lunch or to check my navigation.  To this end I'd like to learn more about self steering mechanisms as well as building one.

Ken

s/v Hermitage

[Jim_ME]

Welcome aboard, Ken.

There is the thread on Snapdragon 26s (or perhaps twin-keel boats in general, if it develops into that...) under Boats, and a thread for Bruce's Great Loop Cruise in his SD26 Puff, which may eventually bring him through your area.

-Jim

[Bonzai]

I found your site thru browsing a large collection of small boat related links.I have been sorta sailing for about 5 yrs now.1st boat was a Catalina 22,kept it for 2 yrs of lake sailing....then adopted and repaired a pretty sad Lancer 25 that a guy threw in on a car trade to get it out of his driveway (had to recore most of the decks and cabin trunk..replaced all ports and completely rebuilt the interior including electrical),have sailed the Lancer for 3 yrs on various lakes in my area.Now am purchasing a turnkey 1974 Bayfield 25 that I hope to use as my first saltwater boat.Finally found a small boat that has the tentative approval of the Admiral....lol.Seperate sleeping compartments and a real marine head for her...an inboard diesel for me...we are both satisfied so far.We are planning to take the new boat to Fl. Keys for a few weeks very soon.I hope to do quite a lot of coastal sailing with this boat.I am looking forward to the info and fellowship offered by your forum.

[GHSC]

Actually, Sailfar found me...on my web site www.skipperscottage.com.
I have a Westerly 22 (made in England) which I bought in Tampa, FL, and sailed here to Eleuthera Bahamas.

[Jim_ME]

Welcome, Mark (and Missy).

I have started to explore and enjoy your website. You've got a beautiful cottage there--and setting! I recently read about how there has been a resurgence in the construction of small houses in the US, as a result of the recession, limited budgets, and people getting back to the basics, and simplifying their lives and belongings (as those who move aboard boats also do).

Also appreciated your blog and photos of sailing your new boat back from Florida. I'm an admirer of the English sailboats and builders, including Westerly. Some of us have a thread on the Thames Marine Snapdragon 26s, which could easily expand to include any twin- (or triple, as I've seen some of the designs described) keel sailboats. A friend of mine recently acquired a Westerly Nomad 22 project boat, which I understand evolved from the W22. I have a project or two of my own.

Greetings and Grog to you. (Your photos are especially appealing as I put on my boots and head outside to dig out from the blizzard...)

[CapnK]

Took a bit, but I found it in Google Earth:

"Skippers Cottage" - lat=25.2215261436, lon=-76.2621541766

or in Google Maps

As the whole cottage and lot is far out of my budget range, how much for just the studio and say 20' of dirt around it?  ;D

Joking, of course. :) Pretty place! If I had to swallow the anchor, that would be a fine spot to do it!

Welcome aboard, y'all, and the same to all of our new members! Glad to have you here. :)

[CapnK]

In an effort to making weeding out the scammers and spammers from the REAL new sailFarer's, the Mods and I are always tweaking the process of just how folks can register.

What we've implemented in the past week or so, is to go ahead and have them send us a brief note about themselves, *before* we might even see their registration (we used to send the note *after* they had signed up...). Anyway, on the Registration page, it now says the following:

So, to let us know that you are not one of "them" (scammer/spammers), you MUST:

1) Fill out the Registration info on this site, AND

2) Send a brief email from the same address you used for Registering. It should tell us a little about yourself and why you'd like to join SailFar. We aren't asking you to write a novel , but we DO need a bit more than "I want to join...". For example: What kind of boat do you have? Where have you sailed? A few sentences along those lines...  Send your email to: register.sailfar@gmail.com

3) Answer the following sailing question, at the end of your email (above): On the jib, do you attach the mainsheet to:
a) the tack cringle
b) to the tiller, or
c) to both?

Question #3 I put in there as one last little "trap" for folks who might get past the rest, but not really be a sailor/sailorette. ;D BUT - the answers we've been getting are pretty good! So I thought I would post them here for y'all to enjoy, without identifying who the answers came from,

If someone wants to "own" their answer, they can do that themselves, with their newly-minted sailFar membership. ;D. :)

[JWalker]

ok on question 3........

it doesnt say how much rum was involved....because depending on the rum......

I might answer C!

[CapnK]

Here are the first couple:

I would not attach the mainsheet to the jib, I would use the jib sheet instead.

I am afraid I cannot, in good conscience, attach the mainsheet to the jib?any where

Hmm, am I seeing a pattern here? ;D

Grog fer trying anyway, JW! ;D

[JWalker]

My mainsheet it long enough to attach to the jib.

My mainsheet somehow wraps around the tiller occasionally....

With enough Rum, I could do C topless!


Heck with enough Rum I'd look and see if there was anything in your compost toilet....UNLIKE L!!!!!! (Of CJ and L fame);D

[Greenman]

Now this could be a funny thread.  :D

[CharlieJ]

Laura already found it funny! She cracked up over JW's post.  :D

[CapnK]

Laura must stop laughing at me.

Why?

'Coz I have teh Blackmails...

[JWalker]

I'm just sayin......Laura has more class morals alcohol tolerance than I do.....proven fact.




Ok well.....she has more class, morals, AND alcohol tolerance than I do...... ;D

[CapnK]

3) Answer the following sailing question, at the end of your email (above): On the jib, do you attach the mainsheet to:
a) the tack cringle
b) to the tiller, or
c) to both?  

There actually is a self-sterring system one can rig in which you would do up both the JIB CLEW and the tiller with a jib sheet...  But good luck to you and yours if you connect the mainsheet to the base of the jib luff!  If you did, hopefully you have not raised your mainsl and have oars to hand...  or an engine ready...

:D Good advice!  ;D

Hmm, to answer your question I know you don't attach the jib to the tiller and I've never heard of a tack cringle so I'm going to go with tack cringle.

B+! (It is a trick question, after all... ;) ) Cringle

On my boat(s) the mainsheet has always controlled the Mainsail and has no direct contact with the Jib Sheet(s) which are attached to the clew or cringle (aft end) of the Jib. Have I been doing this wrong for 30 years and over 19,000 bluewater nautical miles? Thanks.

Thankfully, no, you haven't. Now, had you done what was suggested, *and* sailed 19K miles over 30 years and lived to tell about it ;), THAT would be AMAZING. Worth one o' them Noble Prizes er sumthin'...  ;D ;D ;D

As to your question pertaining to the jib and attaching the mainsheet, it would appear that someone partook of too much hard cider in dreaming up that question.  I am not sure I would actually care to go sailing with someone who could honestly deal with that question and the answers.

Mea culpa?  8)

[JWalker]

I happen to know that it was NOT hard cider....but Dark n Stormys!!! ;D ;D ;D

[Ssullivan]

im new here, i own a small coastal cruiser, a Compac 16, naimed Ayla Marie  i live in the Florida Keys, and i want to start doing some longer cruising and i figured here was a good place to get hints and tips

[Tim]

Welcome Aboard, Spend some time looking around, I am sure you will find something useful  :)

[Ssullivan]

thanks will do

[hearsejr]

 ;D RUN!!! run fast..run deep..run long...it doesn't matter, just run. if not you'll get sucked in to sailing on some voyage, and never wanting to come back..lololol