[C320-list] Broaching

[Adam Weiner]

"Let's light the fires and kick the tires" is my favorite.

My daughter's favorite:  "I learned that from driving the Sara."

Adam

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bruceheyman at cox.net
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 7:29 PM
To: C320-List
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Broaching


One of our favorite quotes from Captin Ron, "if it is going to happen it
is going to happen out there.". 
What a great way to live life!
Bruce
Somerset 671 SoCal
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Kirk McCullough" <kirk.mccullough at telus.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:24:53 
To:"C320-List" <c320-list at catalina320.com>
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Broaching

If you don't go sailing nothing ever happens. If you are out there a
lot, 
stuff happens. If you never fly your spinnaker, you'll never get a
spinnaker 
wrap, or find yourself suddenly overpowered, when only a moment earlier
you 
were enjoying great downwind run. On my Newport 28 years ago, I blew out
the 
foot and part way up the luff, of my mainsail. I should have reduced
sail, 
but I was making great head way beating into a 35 kt breeze. We were on
the 
edge but having fun. Not so much fun when we had to motor 20miles after
the 
main blew out, but so it goes.

Kirk McCullough
Boomerang #124

Its all good, as long we come out safe and sound.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Weiner" <esquirecatering at rcn.com>
To: "'C320-List'" <c320-list at catalina320.com>
Cc: <CraigEneboe at aol.com>; <straum_rpi at yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 10:09 PM
Subject: [C320-list] Broaching


>
>
> After the Broach article came out in the Mainsheet I received several 
> comments from this list (even from people in the SF Bay Area) that the

> problem is that I sail at night and that at night you can't see the 
> wind coming.  I gave a defense to these people that broaches occur in 
> the day and that when people distant race the California coast, race 
> to Hawaii, etc. they don't take their chutes down at night.
>
> For those of you with access to Latitude 38 you might want to look at 
> the picture on 164 of the January issue.  It is a great shot of a 
> Merit 25 taken IN THE DAY and the photo is captioned "Shake, Rattle 
> and Roll." The boom is in the water, the rudder is out of the water, 
> the spinnaker has water in its belly and you can see in the Bay the 
> ripples of where it just was, and finally water is cascading into the 
> cockpit.  The caption mentions other broaches which were photographed 
> and put in the magazine over the years including far better sailors 
> then me like Tom Blackaller and Paul Cayard.  I guess I feel slightly 
> redeemed.
>
> Adam
>
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