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Dock it bruce quimby9/27/2023 ![]() ![]() If you are interested in learning some of the tips and tricks of fiberglass repair email me at In the fall after the club cruise, I was thinking of doing a couple weeknight night work parties and let members experience prepping a broken OPTI bow corner, mixing resin and hardener and, applying layers of fiberglass. Our member David Gilmore has done amazing restoration work turning a boat that looks like it should be retired into one the kids are hoping they get to sail. We would like a volunteer to paint them so they fit in with the interior decor. If you can assist, please email me at We can place them on saw horses under the overhang outside the galley and have painting supplies ready.ĪLSO, with sailing school coming to a close we have a several OPTI’s dinghys in need of fiberglass repair. HELP WANTED… Rich Peters, Chris Bazinet and I are constructing bead board seat boxes to place under the South windows to store junior sailing parts and supplies-getting away from the tables with table cloths attempting to hide the gear. This is a local Watch Hill, BI, to North Fork LI cruise so come join us for an overnight or even day trip if you have one of those fast power boats. ![]() Next on the horizon is our annual Club cruise. Hope to see many of you at the various ports of call. It’s also been a great year for Junior Sailing school, creating our next generation of boaters and sailors and they are on the final tack to the finish. Our sailors have competed well this season which you can read about in the following pages. We had a very successful Outer Light Classic event thank to the hard work of Amy Vinciguerra and her team, with nineteen boats racing and a well-attended post-race party. The bridge was slow opening, and this guy was not paying attention.NCYC is “Copper Bottomed” with her new teak deck and sturdy deck furniture. The flybridge convertible with the chatty group gathered around the helm would edge towards the span on the current and at the last moment twist around and work upstream. He drifted down on the bridge’s rip-rap, bounced off, spun out and slammed into a waiting sailboat. Remind me again what the prize is for being the first through? There must be one, because all too often I’ve seen a spirited competition for that post position. And the frontrunners often forget that wind and currents tend to be tricky within the narrow channel of a draw.Įxperienced boaters waiting in current-infested channels know that the set is quicker when they’re broadside to the stream. Watch the shore as you swing the bow around to breast the current odds are that during the turn you’ll be set further down than expected - which can be embarrassing if there’s a bridge or another vessel in the way. Bow or stern to the wind or current enables the vessel to hold position and can keep you from needing to execute an inadvertent 180. Down-current vessels have the right of way and should be allowed to proceed through the draw before the upstream crowd. It’s common courtesy.īe nice to the auxiliary sailboat odds are he’s underpowered, which can create problems as he negotiates through. Be nice also to the hotdogger who needs to pass everyone while slower vessels are shaping up for the span. Yes, he should be punished, but not by you. ![]() In other words, don’t give in to the impulse to “kind-of drift” in his way as he powers through the pack, thus forcing him to back off. Perhaps there’s a lurking sea-cop who will give the cur his just due. When there’s a crowd waiting for the bridge, hang astern and not in tandem. You don’t want to be abeam when your neighbor executes a panic turn. Where else is there a lively flock of anxious boaters? Around the fuel dock, of course. (I’m not going to touch on launch ramps here that’s a whole different article.) Yes, nobody likes hanging out watching grandpa fuel up seemingly with an eyedropper, but edging ever closer and glaring probably won’t make him fuel faster. What will make the fuel flow is hanging by one line while you’re doing the deed. Every line less than a proper bow, stern and, if necessary, springs, increases the chance of a spill. And we all know what that gets us: the possibility of another spill - from the bank account.Īgain, patience and proper seamanship is the key here. OK, let’s skip the disaster scenarios, anchor off a welcoming beach and enjoy the day. We’re talking mostly common sense here, but we’ve seen the results when one is too carefree.īoats like to have their pointy ends into the wind/current/wakes, which often are not apparent on a calm day off a lake or riverfront beach - but one of them will show up sooner or later. Therefore, when dropping the hook off the beach and then backing down so you could run a stern anchor ashore, it’s not a bad idea to make a dive down to the anchor.
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