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A less costly way to make the same thing happen would be to secure the bitter end of the sheet to the car you have in place now with a little loop of spectra.
Right now I secure it to the base of the Schaefer Block where it attaches to the car. I had not thought of the loop of Spectra. That should work better than the 1/4 inch sheet attached directly to the car.
Perhaps I will re-rig before I go to the expense of new blocks.
Tim wrote:There's a masthead-rigged Triton in one of your photos there.
Tim,
Good eye. That Triton has been there for the 4 or 5 years that I have been sailing out of Fishermans Bay. I have talked to the owner a number of times. He lives off Island, Conway I think, and owns a piece of waterfront property near his boat. He comes up every year and hauls her and does the bottom but I have never seen her out sailing. It looks like this year, or last, she got some new canvas.
Her mooring is not in a location that I would favor. She has been hit once and also bounced off her mooring concrete anchor during an exceptionally low tied (damaging her rudder).
It looks like, at one point, someone had some grand aspirations for her as she is fitted out with a wind vane. But for now she lives the life of the lonely, but not completely neglected, plastic classic.
The angles and curves of the coaming and housetop really work with the sweep of the sheer, and the port placement is perfect— someone's got a sharp eye for balance and proportion.
That would be Tim (and Bluenose).
Really fun to read that thread. Jay Greer said "Proper!"
Every time I see the way you and Tim both saw and executed the potential for creating such an incredible day sailer I am impressed anew! GREAT vision, GREAT boat, great work. That and the daysailing Triton are the Angelina Jolies of boat porn!
Richard
Bluenose wrote:
Ric in Richmond wrote:Looks like she has hit the wooden boat forum!
The responses are all positive...which is rare over there when you are dealing with "frozen snot".