Sailing from Berkeley to the Delta on the Cal 33 for the floating festival Ephemerisle

[@dominictarrsailing]

might see you at the next ephemerisle, just have to sail across the pacific ocean

[@nbertulis]

❤ 🤓Nerdic Spirit🤓 ❤

[@fossilfool]

What do you think of “ Rainbow “, "Big Energy", "Evidence", and "Bonnie Raitt" ?

[@MadelineTasquin]

👏 nerdic spirit 🤓

[@TheThirdEdge]

Rawesome!!!!!!!!! And, by golly, there's the preventer I suggested long ago (and was poo-pooed for by others). I dig the sketch of the cover trailin' behind. Bonus: Sea shanties! Huzzah! (Brings back memories dating over four decades ago for me, workin' on wooden square riggers.)

[@fossilfool]

Good to hear from you. Glad you like the gybe preventer:)

[@TheThirdEdge]

I often follow your adventures and creations, brother! Love 'em! Big booms can be fatal. I've never seen a death, but I've seen some unhappy injuries. Some happen so fast the victim didn't even know what occurred! Just PAIN and they're someplace they weren't a second ago. Boom brakes (variations exist) are something to look into. (See Walder Boom Brake, e.g.) Preventers can be rigged for lots of activities. Hoisting is a good one, even on construction sites. I watched a video of a crew setting roof trussed 30' up with a boat trailer winch. No preventer ('safety') in place to follow along and assure every foot of rise could be maintained (not lifting: holding). At the end of the day, the li'l sprocket on the off-the-shelf hand-crank boat trailer winch was worn to nubs. Had it slipped, the large heavy plated wood truss it carried would have crashed to the slab, wiping out everything in its path. That crew dodged a bullet that day. Love your adventures, courage, honest expression of what you're experiencing, and your inventiveness! You rock! @@fossilfool

[@dominictarrsailing]

I've never had a boat with a furler, but I did sail on one once where they really knew what they were doing (it was in a race, actually) they always left the sheet on, and wound the furler in using a winch, so that it made a really tight wrap. Then you don't get those creases, and have a much better sail shape, reducing drag, which will help a lot when going to windward

[@fossilfool]

Good to hear from you, I'll try it. Have not tried to get more on the furling line.

[@hurdurdur7rl696]

Poor fender hanging on for it's life on the port side there in the big waves... Whisker pole in that wind was definitely a no-no. The other issue there was that you already had to counter steer to stay on course and by reducing the jib you made it worse (you can see from the video the angle of the rudder that you had to hold), reducing your speed and control. Should have reefed the main too, before the sail got that exciting :) Take the boat repairs as a meditation. It's the time for yourself, to focus and to remove your thoughts from the troubles of the rest of the world. And use your boom to lift things to your boat from the dinghy if needed, don't lift things under your armpits. Fair winds.

[@fossilfool]

Thx for watching! Interesting about the sail balancing. Reefing the mainsail seems harder than reefing the genoa. That's why I mostly only have reefed the mainsail at the dock. What's the best way to handle fenders during a sail plz? They currently get tied low on the stanchions, then we flip them up and inside the lifelines, but they get kicked while moving forward, and can foul on and the genoa lines during maneuvers. Thx.

[@dominictarrsailing]

havn't watched the whole video yet but it's probably the stern gland

[@dominictarrsailing]

wow it was the exaust! engine related, either way

[@fossilfool]

Hi Dominic, yeah, and now it's been converted to an output for the new electric cooling system. Been checking your sailing vids, nice!

[@dominictarrsailing]

@@fossilfool oh so this boat has an electric motor now?

[@fossilfool]

@@dominictarrsailing Yeah, and most of the rest of my fleet too:)

[@dominictarrsailing]

@@fossilfool glad to hear that! Did the petrol motor break down?

[@dominictarrsailing]

the whisker pole is for when you are going down wind, but it looks like this is a close reach? btw, there should be a line in the leech of the mainsail, that goes to a cleat in the sail above each reef point, and if you pull it in a bit it will stop that flapping

[@fossilfool]

The wind changed. We had needed the pole, then we forgot to take it down when the the wind and waves shifted to a reach. This boat was set up for racing and has many winches and a very feature rich boom. I have only scratched the surface of sail trim :)

[@dominictarrsailing]

@@fossilfool yes! your boat seems to have more winches than really necessary! maybe they used those second winches so they can save a few seconds switching between the jib and spinnaker? if this was my boat I think I'd put the reefing lines for the main (and halyards) back to the cockpit, so can reef or lower the main more safely and quickly