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2000 Spring Newsletter Highlights Inside Niantic Bay to Host 2000 Nationals 3 The Great Atlantic Website 6 New Boats for 2001? Win Free Entry to Nationals 5 2000 Rules Committee 6 Charter Wanted for Nationals Pre-Season Sail Prep 5 Boats for Sale 6 71st Annual Meeting Class Tests New Spinnaker Design The Newsletter of The Atlantic Class Volume 12 • Issue 1 Spring, 2000 Member, US Sailing TheGreatAtlantic thegreatatlantic.com FOSTER’S CORNER NIANTIC BAYTO PRE SEASON SAIL HOST 2000 PREP NATIONALS August 3 - 5 By Greg Fisher This article was originally published in the April The Niantic Bay Yacht Club will host the 2000 issue of SailingWorld. It is reprinted by 2000 Atlantic Nationals on August 3-5. permission. The annual event is being held much earlier than usual to ensure that both Just as your car’s engine requires By John Foster, Class Chairman crew and race committee volunteers routine care, your sails also need are available. The Atlantic class has a consistent, scheduled maintenance. INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM team of volunteers to provide Every so often, your sails should be laid assistance with the transport of boats to out and carefully inspected. Even Now that we are into our second and from Niantic Bay. Contact Norm though your sails may ultimately end up century as Atlantic sailors it is well to Peck, III at 860-739-9660 for more at a sailmaker, you can save time and take stock of where we are and where information. money by doing the checkover, and we are going as a class! pinpointing and correcting some of the In addition, Fox Navigation problems yourself. We sail boats that are a source of pride (www.FoxNavigation.com or to all of us. The Atlantic classic design 1-888-724-5369) offers high speed ferry The construction detail in today's sails is timeless. Sure, our boats don’t have service from Glen Cove, Long Island to has a large effect on durability. New wing-keels, artwork topsides, knuckle- New London, CT. techniques in finishing and new bows, carbon fiber masts, or materials have also increased the advertisements on our sails - thank Details on the 2000 Nationals will be durability and the life span of all sails. goodness! sent in June. Unless a sail has been abused, it's rare that it will just fall apart. However, While our inventory of boats for sale is "abused" is the key word. Luffing, or shrinking, good used boats are when the sail flaps uncontrollably, is the available at modest cost and even new absolute best way to age a sail before boats are well in reach of many people. its time. A half hour of luffing in a 15- Old boats can be made competitive; knot breeze can deduct a year or more remember Larry Liggett who repaired from a sail's life. If the sail is luffing 110 and finished 5th in the 1999 against a mast or shrouds, the impact is Nationals? The Fleet at Cedar Point is even more severe. Laminated sails can growing and may reach 23 boats this be ruined! summer. www.nbyc.org Leaving sails uncovered in sunlight also (continued on page 3) (continued on page 2) 1 THE GREAT ATLANTIC SPRING, 2000 (Sail Prep, continued) areas, more excessive wear and tear Jib or Genoa: Start at the head, and ages them prematurely. Of course, can occur. Use softer tapered battens, check that the grommet is secure. If where you are in the hemisphere especially at the inboard end in the your genoa has a luff tape, be sure it's makes a difference as well. Those in upper pockets, and use progressively smooth and not frayed. You can clean the sunny South need to be more stiffer battens lower in the sail. The this up a bit yourself with either a hot concerned about damage from lowest batten, intended to keep the knife or a piece of sail-repair tape. If ultraviolet light than those of us up in the lower leech straight and firm, can be your sail has snaps or hanks, the top gray North. However, UV degradation stiff and untapered. Fiberglass battens one takes the most load, so look closely will occur anywhere, and, over time, can can sometimes lose their shape if at it and the grommet that holds it. weaken the cloth or threads to the point they're stored twisted, but you can just where even a small breeze could blow twist them back into shape. As you move down the luff, check the the sail apart. Be sure to cover your snaps to see if they snap and unsnap sails when they're not in use. Be sure that the tack grommet is intact easily (but not too easily). Check the and not distorted. The tack grommet is windows for any cracks or creases. Regardless of whatever abuse your often deformed because it experiences Unless the window is broken all the way sails have endured, let's lay them out, serious loading. Check the clew to the edge and into the seam, a good perhaps in your front yard, and give grommet as well, as it's also heavily temporary patch can be fashioned with them a visual check. loaded. If a clew grommet fails, it sail repair tape or even heavy duty clear usually pulls aft in the sail rather than shipping tape over the crack or crease. Mainsail: Start at the head of the down. Look for a split in the cloth just A window repaired this way can survive mainsail and check the rivets in the below the clew grommet indicating that for a regatta or two, but it's a good idea headboard. They sometimes work the grommet has moved aft and the to visit your sailmaker for a patch for the loose around the bottom corner and pop sailcloth is torn. Unless the grommet is long haul. A blown window can tear out out. While this may look devastating, cracked (look it over carefully for hairline a good part of an entire panel if not you can fix it by sliding in and tightening fractures), you can just hammer it flat cared for and then pressed in a breeze. some bolts—they'll be as strong as the again. Don't crack it as you pound rivets. away—it's best to hammer it out on a Be sure to check the leech tape fold rubber pad. where the sail may flap against the mast Also check the wear at the boltrope and shrouds. Is the spreader patch still where the sail enters the mast. If there As you move aft along the foot, check serviceable? Is it in the right spot? Are are slugs on your sail, check that the that the window is smooth with no your telltales still intact? Again, check webbing or shackles attaching them to creases or cracks (more on this under out leech-cord cleats. If your jib is fitted the sail are still intact. Often the "Jib," below). Look over your leech-line with battens, they'll certainly show some webbing holding slugs or slides can cleats. If they're burned out or on their wear after hitting the mast. If the pocket wear or tear loose. Resewing the way, this is the time to replace them. shows any wear at all, stick on a piece straps is relatively painless. Just grab a Also check that there's plenty of length of sail-repair tape. needle, palm, and thread and sew it in the actual leech cord. A shorter tail down, gauging the length by a piece of can make adjustment nearly Spinnaker: Check over the body of the webbing that's intact. impossible. sail, looking for pinholes and tears. Hold it up so that light behind the sail will Work down the luff, checking the luff Check the batten pockets at the inboard shine through any holes. The areas tape for tears or cuts. Pay special end. Pockets usually break down that take the greatest abuse are close to attention at reef points and the where the batten tip wears the pocket the leeches. A quick run around the cunningham-grommet area where the from the inside out. Look at the edge with your hands can find any luff rope constantly feeds in and out of outboard end where the batten seats snags or holes in the tapes. Usually, if the sharper mast slot. If you do find itself against the end of the pocket. the tears are under 2 or 3 inches, sticky tears in the luff tape, be sure to file and This area is doubly reinforced, so it's back sail-repair tape applied over them smooth the luff slot in the mast. Also unusual for pockets to wear through, will do. watch those areas around the plastic but heavy flogging of the main can protectors at the leading edge of full- sometimes break threads and push the Dacron sail-repair tape, it should be length battens. Both the inboard end of batten out through the top of the pocket. mentioned, is better than nylon tape. the pocket and the luff tape are sources Nylon is readily available, less of wear and tear. If you've sailed in a lot of breeze, it's expensive, and comes in plenty of good to check the leech-tape fold colors, but it isn't nearly as strong or Battens really don't wear out, but if the between the battens to be sure there's wrong battens are used in the wrong no tearing where the fold meets the sail.
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