What Sailing Problems do You Have?

Russell_Sea said:
Hi guys, this is a strange question. I'm an Entrepreneur and sailing nut, out looking for some problems to solve. So if you've got a problem or something that stresses you about sailing, speak now or forever hold your peace. :D

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How about a 'mast head traffic light system' automatically flashes or inflates a motor cone to indicate motor running.

And flashes to indicate tack imminent .

Prevent cheating in round the Island race etc and help mobos understand better what the hells going on as another foresail entangles his anchor.:)
 
DAKA said:
How about a 'mast head traffic light system' automatically flashes or inflates a motor cone to indicate motor running.

And flashes to indicate tack imminent .

Prevent cheating in round the Island race etc and help mobos understand better what the hells going on as another foresail entangles his anchor.:)
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How about a Janet & John book on seamanship, so Daka can gain an understanding as to what it's all about.:p
 
Garold said:
There seems no substitute for getting the wife on the coach roof and getting her to guide the sail past the lazy jacks.

Ps. Any other suggestions welcome.
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A system in which the lazyjacks can be eased and taken forward. I've seen a system where the attachment point on the mast was a block, with the line led down the mast to a tiny block. The lazyjacks were only deployed when lowering the main. Or could be deployed once it was raised. The point is that, when not wanted, they were taken forward to the gooseneck.

To the OP.

My problems are that I live hundreds of km from the sea / ocean, and that I don't (currently) have a boat.
 
Boathook said:
Not just one book but a series and not just for Daka !
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Would you envisage the books be given to every mobo jockey by way of a free educational series?

I think there may be some difficulty in obtaining funding for such a project, as sources I know of would shy away from a lost cause.:)
 
Chrusty 1 said:
Just for you of the Googely Challenged!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toff
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Thank you so much for that. As I suspected not an acronym at all just a heavily claused guess, which seems, even to wiki to need verification.

I did ask if there was a meaning. This would have been of interest but such stabs in the dark as 'might come from toffee nosed' or might be to do with the mucus a snuff taker was trying to retain or might have something to do with an upper class sluth, are rather poor. IMHO.:D
 
My lazy jacks are currently not easy to take down and put up (and get them balanced) but from some of the ideas on here (and northwinds diagram) I can see that it should be possible to set them up in a different way that will facilitate this.

Many thanks to all. (and, weirdly, the OP for starting the thread!)

Richard
 
My problem is that my work takes me inland for weeks at a time, with none of it free, and when I get back SWMBO has a list as long as my arm of things that are higher up,the priority list. (don't tell, her, but I actually agree!)
 
DAKA said:
How about a 'mast head traffic light system' automatically flashes or inflates a motor cone to indicate motor running.

And flashes to indicate tack imminent .

Prevent cheating in round the Island race etc and help mobos understand better what the hells going on as another foresail entangles his anchor.:)
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What would constitute cheating on the Round the Island Race?
 
OK - here's a real problem.

Is there a way of hauling up a large, heavily-roached catamaran sail, which therefore needs full-length batons, without the baton-ends getting continually caught in the lazy jacks (which requires the sail to be temporarily dropped again) unless the helmsman is 100.00% accurate at holding the bow directly into the wind?

Try unrolling the headsail first, and getting yourself on a close hauled course. Ease the mainsheet a good whack, to let the boom out a foot or two beyond normal close hauled setting. Tension a boom swing preventer if it is a bigger heavier boom, or you have a bit of a sloppy sea running. Keep the engine running ahead, if you need the apparent wind. Helm or autopilot keep the boat sailing to jib telltales. If you have done it right, the leach of the main, as you hoist it, rides on the airflow of the headsail, and is much easier to keep in the grove between the lazyjacks. On a smaller boat, where the helm can trim all the falls of the mainsheet, while driving, makes it even easier to thread the needle. Does not work if you have an incredibly small jib, compared to the mainsail. Does not work, if you have a poor luff track system, and need to be head to wind to reduce friction, enough to hoist.

Also, trim your batten ends, there is no need to have them sticking 3" out the back of the sail, at full tension, they don't have to stick out at all. Trim them in stages, so you don't make them too short.

Lastly, seems obvious, but it should be clear who is appointed to look up, while hoisting (easier from further aft), and if it catches, don't keep pulling, ease 6" of halyard, and wait for the wind to flick the leach back into the gap. You would not believe how hard is it to get some folk to look at the thing they are winching, most people become captivated by the winch, and look rarely at the big picture.

My biggest sailing problem? The Windex / Burgee always points at where I need to get to.
 
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RichardS said:
OK - here's a real problem.

Is there a way of hauling up a large, heavily-roached catamaran sail, which therefore needs full-length batons, without the baton-ends getting continually caught in the lazy jacks (which requires the sail to be temporarily dropped again) unless the helmsman is 100.00% accurate at holding the bow directly into the wind?


Richard
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I have rigged retractable lazy jacks, which drop during hoist and catch the sail normally when the time comes to furl it. PM me and I will send you the diagrams.

regards

Ian
 
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