The Jouster Is Published by the Winter Issue, 2013 Windmill Class Association
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The Jouster is published by the Winter Issue, 2013 Windmill Class Association. Annual subscription cost of $8.00 is included in The Jouster Class membership dues. Articles, photos and race re- sults are very welcomed. Windmill Sailing _/) Just Plane Fun Submit to [email protected] INSIDE THIS ISSUE NEW FIBERGLASS WINDMILL BUILDER! 1… New Fiberglass Build- By Ethan Bixby er After over a year of work and development, the first new glass Windmill Northerns Windmill from Johannsen Boat Works has hit the water! During Davis Island Thanksgiving this time, your class invested in a new tooling to ensure a better Day Regatta quality product. A new hull mold was built as the old was in such poor shape, and we upgraded it to allow vacuum bagging or resin Carlisle Classic infusion in the future, and updated to a full rail flange. This allows Windmill Southerns the deck liner to be installed while the hull is still in the mold, assur- 28th Anniversary Dune- ing a more consistent hull form. The McLaughlin era deck mold din yadda yadda was modified to have the full hull to deck flange also. Fishing Bay Yacht Club At the same time, we invested in two thwart molds so these can be built in glass. The big improvement here is that the forward District 8 Report thwart/mast partners includes the daggerboard cap and the fa- 2013 Gaspar Regatta mous Bill Blanton seat, with the main cam mount aft of that! The crews love this and it really makes the boat more comfortable. We Nationals in july also moved the bailer position to just aft of the daggerboard trunk, and this seems to be working better. Another small addition is Page 2 The Jouster that we added a small strut to below minimum weight, and is is to always have a new hull tie in the mast partners and the owned by the class as a stock available, and have an a-la-carte mast step. Our class measurer boat and is available for sale. It system for components. This list Roy Sherman flew down to St. is white with a cream deck, of know suppliers and approxi- Petersburg and measured the strong, light and stiff and ready mate pricing is posted on the first hull and blessed it! to go! web site. This makes it easy to The standard configuration in- Hulls 3 and 4 were purchased change out what you need as cludes the installation of the by the Bixbys and Sponars, as you upgrade your boat. bailer, chain plates, head stay each wanted custom hull colors. Mark Johannsen of Johannsen tang, inspection ports and drain We received 5700 at the South- Boat Works can be reached at plugs. Standard color is a white erns, and had it rigged up and 772-567-4612, mobile 772-559- hull with a cream colored deck sailing by the following week- 3605, or by email trin- which is easy on the eyes! Oth- end’s regatta in Clearwater. The [email protected]. An order er colors are available. The boat feels great, very stiff, com- form is posted on this web site, builder can install other options, fortable and fast! Trudy swears along with the suppliers list. or you can do it yourself or hire by the seat. I’d like to give a big thanks to a rigger. I can provide a parts So we have turned a page and Mark Johansen, Roy Sherman, list and fitting out guide if you’d achieved what we have long and Lon Ethington for the all like. wanted – a quality builder of the time, energy, endless phone The first boat came out very glass boats for the class. Now calls and emails it has taken to strong, but too heavy to be a owners can upgrade their pro- get to this point. And remember top level competitive boat. At gram with a totally new boat, or that 5703 is finished and ready 230 lbs., it probably weighs less keep all of your components for immediate purchase. Ralph than some boats in the fleet, and just get a new the hull! Sponar and I have developed and will be an excellent club And importantly we have new good rigging packages if you boat locally. fiberglass boats available for need guidance there. prospective owners! Our goal Hull 2 met our goals and is well Let’s go sailing!!! ◊ New Hull Sails Great! The Jouster Page 3 2013 GASPAR REGATTA start time. Most of us walked ing to get back to the right side across the road to the street because of the light air. Most By Colin Browning market where the aroma of boats only made two tacks get- many different kinds of food ting to windward and sailed al- The first regatta of the Windmill cooking wafted throughout the most straight to the mark. Head- sailing year was held in beautiful air. Hundreds of people from the ing down wind on the last leg Saint Petersburg, Florida in the community brought their kids the wind moved forward with a kind of weather most people and dogs to enjoy the open close race between Ethan Bixby from up north dream about in market. and John Jennings. John man- the middle of January: sunny aged to eek past Ethan to win with temperatures in the low After about a one hour delay the regatta. 80's. We had 10 boats in the the AP came down and we Windmill fleet, 13 in the Snipe headed out in light air. Our only Dinner Saturday night at Saint fleet, and if it wasn't for the log- race of the entire regatta was a Pete Yacht Club was outstand- os on the sails it would have 4 leg Windward/Leeward which ing. We all had cocktails, lots of been tough to tell which boats was shortened from a 6 leg W/L. laughs, and a great time at a were which from a distance. I If it hadn't been shortened we very nice, hospitable yacht club. believe Clark Mills borrowed a wouldn't have finished the race Saint Pete Yacht Club did a great lot of the design from the Snipe due to the quickly dying air. The job and for a very reasonable to design the Windmill. line was set square but the cur- price. We will be back! Thank rent played a huge factor since it you to everyone who participat- Day one the wind was predicted was running across the course. ed in this regatta and to all who 5 to 15 knots, but racing was That meant that sailing to the helped organize it. ◊ delayed due to the wind being left side of the windward mark non-existent at our scheduled would most likely stall a boat try- 2013 Gaspar Regatta Results January 12, 2013 Pos Boat Name Total Race 1 1 3803 John Jennings & Michelle Graham 1 1 2 5700 Ethan Bixby & Karen Goforth 2 2 3 4955 Lin Robson & Susan Davidson 3 3 4 3497 Donna Sue Marks & Jeff Marks 4 4 5 5271 Diggs Vann & Cindy Vann 5 5 6 5070 Lon Ethington & Margaret Gimmi 6 6 7 4922 Dede Plessner & Beau Plessner 7 7 8 4481 Colin Browning & Eric Mann 8 8 9 3958 Ritch Riddle & Ken Friedman 9 9 10 2049 Lisa Fath & Nicky Valentini 10 10 SAVE THE DATE! 2013 Windmill Class National Championships July 18-21 at Fishing Bay Yacht Club, Deltaville,Va Page 4 The Jouster 28th Annual Dunedin Cup which was being sailed by our Colin and Lon's boats. By the Windmill fleet's very own Dede third race things were looking Regatta Plessner with crew (Watch out real good until the down wind for the tree), Beau. Fortunately, leg and Jim found out what September 29, 2012 was a spec- after having broken their Day- happens when a jibe is executed tacular day for a race on the in- sailor's mast on the oak tree in with the dagger board fully up ter-coastal bay one big bridge the parking lot last year they did and the boom vang snags it. north of Windmill Central, the an awesome job avoiding it this That's awful feeling. The boat home of Clark Mills, in sunny year but not everyone managed rounds up and is taken over be- Dunedin Florida. The weather to avoid THE TREE. Mark Rother, cause you just can't let out your could not have been ordered after racing removed his boat boom past the middle of the more perfect for our newest 3 from the water and sped off to boat, been there and done that boats in the fleet. Light air was his parking spot unwittingly several times myself. Fortunately just what we needed to initiate crashing his mast into THE TREE. Jim and John made a nice re- Jim Longen, and crew John Mark's boat escaped with only a covery. Delage, Southern District Fleet 1 broken spreader. Much cheaper Captain, Ritch Riddle and co- then a mast. After racing the party began owner Ken Friedman, and Cam with the people from PHRF Carlin sailing solo on his herring Race committee planned on 4 boats that raced in the gulf bone wooden windmill Cam has races for this one day regatta joined the people from the been with the fleet now for with our first race being a modi- Portsmouth fleet and lots of oth- about 1 year. Lon Ethington fied Olympic course which took er club members for a feast on (Windmill President), with crew about 1 hour to finish.