Trip dates:
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Sail
headed up to marblehead for practice on the Man of War. beautiful day to sail (apple weather told me 60 and cloudy and LIED). had some time on the main sheet, but mostly was the mast end of the whisker pole and had an absolute blast!
Learned:
- "traveller up, twist up", and to get twist out of the sail, sheet in and trav down
- manuvering the pole:
- on gybe: mast end up to the orange tape (6-12 inches above my head), trip when "trip" and with that trip line (and hands) help get the end of the pole to the bowman, run over to the new sheet (jib sheet) and haul on it to bring the pole back and jib in, lower the mast end
- on douse: mast end up, trip and pole end to bowman, mast end down once set
- to remove: little switch near the mast end to disengage from the post, undo topping lift, tie to black cords, tape near there and middle-tending-towards-other-end, with slack left between the tape and tension to the ends