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Tech Book 2001 Larger Type Technicalities 2000 Published & Copyright © 2001 by the Santana 20 Class Association Editors: Chris Winnard and Andrew Kerr Published by John Franklin, Class Secretary Publication Design and Prepress by: G2 Marketing Services 1790 Lemming Avenue Eugene, OR 97401 541-344-1979 Technicalities 2000 Table of Contents Getting Started Hoist and Ramp Launching & Retrieving ..............Ralph Taylor ............................................1 Regatta Preparation 5 Tricks to Pull Out of Your Sailbag This Season ......................................Chic Parsons & Dale Waagmeester ....3 Santana 20 Training....................................................Chic Parsons & Dale Waagmeester ....5 Practice Makes Perfect: Growing the Team ..........Andrew Kerr ..........................................5 Regatta Preparation ....................................................Andrew Kerr ..........................................8 Tuning by Feel and Sight ..........................................Lance Purdy ............................................9 Deck Layout Tips If Light is Fast, Lighter is Faster ............................Phillip Infelise ......................................12 Santana 20 Console Setup ........................................Ralph Taylor ..........................................15 Santana 20 Sailing Techniques Smile, the Wind is Howling ......................................Bob Pattison..........................................18 Bill Does Steering ......................................................Bill Jenkins ............................................20 More Breeze, More Bumps ......................................Phillip Infelise ......................................22 Spinnaker Trim............................................................Dale Waagmeester ................................25 Downwind Sailing: Heavy Air ..................................Lance Purdy ..........................................28 Downwind Sailing: Running In Moderate Air ......Lance Purdy ..........................................31 Downwind Sailing: Running at Smaller Than Optimum Angles ......Lance Purdy ..........................................32 Foredeck Crew Tips ..................................................Adam Kline ..........................................33 Racing Strategy Pre-Start Strategy: Keep Your Head Out of the Boat ......................Andrew Kerr ........................................37 Rounding Offset Marks ............................................Andrew Kerr ........................................39 Choose Your Leeward Mark ....................................Andrew Kerr ........................................41 Lake Sailing: Expect the Unexpected......................Andrew Kerr ........................................43 Technicalities 2000 level of your companionway top, or slightly Hoist and Ramp higher. The bridle should have lines attached to Launching & the ring to keep the ring from moving fore-and- aft and port-and-starboard. The ring must stay in Retrieving position to stabilize the boat while it's in the air. Ralph Taylor Here are the hoisting steps: Some Santana 20 sailors are "hoisters." They Step 1: Carefully inspect the hoist and hoisting like the convenience of a hoist to put their boats area. Figure out where everything goes and plan in the water and back to the trailer. Others believe your launch. Where should the center of the that "God didn't intend that boats fly," and prefer trailer go? Is there a placement mark for the ramp launches. trailer’s wheels or keel? I've done a fair amount of each, and have come Step 2: Return to your boat and set it up for to the conclusion that which method to use hoisting. Use port and starboard lines to secure depends upon what you have available. the bridle ring in the center top of the companionway opening. Run aft lines to each corner of the stern and tension them to keep ring Hoisting from moving forward. Pull adjustable aft lowers Two essentials for an air launch are a good on tight. Then, and only then, disconnect the hoist and a sturdy boat bridle. The hoist should be backstay. (Or, you can wait a little, but you should rated at 1 ton or more and either pivot or travel disconnect the backstay before backing under the out over the water. The water at the launch point hoist.) Set up bow and stern lines that are long should, of course, be at least five feet deep. The enough to allow you to stand away from the boat hook on the hoist chain should have a positive and control it while it's in the air. Be sure to have lock to prevent the hoisted boat from slipping off. fenders available for protection. You also need sufficient room to maneuver the Step 3: Back the boat under the hoist. If it's a trailer into position under the lifting point. pivoting boom type, be sure that the boom is behind the mast. Have a person stand behind the boat to signal you regarding trailer positioning. Step 4: Climb up on the boat. Check the aft lowers. Disconnect the backstay if you haven't already done so and secure it where it won't foul on any part of the hoist. (Be wary of your rig if the hoist motor or winch protrudes from the hoist arm.) Connect the hoist hook to the ring. Throw down the bow and stern lines. Climb down from the boat, making sure that all of your tie-downs are disconnected as you go. DO NOT under any Be sure to stand clear of the hoisted boat. circumstances ride the boat while it's in the air! Step 5: Carefully lift the boat off the trailer. The bridle for your boat should be strong Lift slowly at first to check the boat's fore/aft enough to support your boat. It must be secured attitude. It should come off about 15 degrees bow to the keel bolts, and equipped with a ring to down - this keeps the mast away from the hoist attach the bridle to the hoist hook. Your bridle arm. Use the bow and stern lines to prevent any should be long enough so that the ring reaches the swinging until the keel has cleared the trailer. Lift 1 Technicalities 2000 the boat completely free of the trailer and high ramps be so steep that your launch vehicle can't enough to clear any obstacles. DO NOT allow pull the trailer out. anyone under the boat while it's in the air! You need a long launch line to connect to the Step 6: When using a pivoting arm hoist, swing trailer to your vehicle so your vehicle doesn't the boat over the water. You will need to swing drown and a "guide wheel" to guide the trailer the boat with the bow and stern lines at the same down the ramp in a straight line. This wheel time. With a sliding-type hoist, you only need to should be located toward the hitch end of the prevent swinging. Keep the boat perpendicular to trailer, aligned with the center of the trailer and the boom or traveling arm. NOT swivel - or the trailer can get out of control. Step 7: Lower the boat into the water. Climb A guide wheel should be adjustable up and down, on the floating boat and release the hoist hook. so that it can be retracted for road travel. A nylon Move the boat and the trailer out of the way for rope makes a good launch line because of its the next sailor. stretch. Plan on a working load of two tons to have a safety margin. Sixty feet of line should be Step 8: To put the boat back on the trailer, more than adequate. reverse the process. Send someone for the trailer and join the hoist-out line. Set up your hoist There are two basic kinds of ramp launching: bridle. Pull on the aft lowers and disconnect the "dock" and "drive off." If you select the "drive backstay. Make sure that your long bow and stern off" method, you'll need to have your outboard lines are attached. engine ready to go. If the wind is right, you might be able to sail off. Here are the ramp launching Step 9: When your trailer is positioned steps: correctly under the hoist, hook up and start lifting. As you lift, remember to keep the bow about15 Step 1: Rig the boat for launching and get in degrees down. the ramp line. You'll want bow and stern lines to control the boat while it's in the water and fenders Step 10: Position the boat over the trailer and to prevent damage from the dock. You can start lowering. The keel is your key! As you lower, disconnect trailer lights and safety chains while watch the keel. If the keel goes into the right waiting. Don't disconnect the bow/trailer place, everything else will line up. Don't let the connection yet. boat cant to one side or the keel won't go into its guide. (In a pinch, have someone push on the keel Step 2: Back the boat into position at the top to keep it in side-to-side alignment.) If the keel is of the ramp. Chock the trailer wheels and place too far forward or aft, the boat won't be balanced the guide wheel on the ground. (It may be on the trailer and you'll have an unpleasant time necessary to unhitch the trailer from the vehicle on the highway. (For fore-and-aft placement, now to accomplish this.) Secure your launch line someone can lift or pull down on the bow while to the vehicle and the trailer. Check that the trailer the boat is just off the trailer.) will go straight into the water. Disconnect the bow/trailer connection and any other lines securing the boat to the trailer. Check that your Ramping bow and stern lines will be easily reachable. The main requirement for a ramp launch is a Step 3: Pull the vehicle forward to tension the good ramp. Ramps should be free from holes that launch line and move the trailer forward an inch may swallow up a trailer wheel and should deliver or two. Un-chock the wheels. the boat into five to five-and-one-half feet of water within a reasonable distance. Neither should Step 4: Back the vehicle SLOWLY down the ramp. If the trailer departs from its direct line 2 Technicalities 2000 down the ramp, stop and straighten it out. Back helpfulness at hoists and launch ramps. Because down until the boat is just floating. ramps and hoists are often crowded, we do no Step 4: Float the boat off the trailer. Pull the more in this critical area than what needs to be boat aft until the bow clears the trailer, then pull done to safely launch and recover the boat and the boat to the dock and secure it.
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