'Badges of Honor - aka Learning Curve. In a message dated 11/5/2016 7:28:34 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, drifkind@acm.org writes:
On Nov 5, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry about the trouble, Stan. The way your halyard jammed is one for the books. But then, things happen in bunches on boats. Ripped out rudders, dismasting it is all part of the "game”.
A lot of the stories I read—groundings. dismastings, scuttlings, whatever— are pretty intimidating. I figure I can start with _little_ disasters and work my way up to big ones.
Yes, I graduated to the big stuff years ago. Dismasting, rudder ripped out of the transom, falling overboard (as I dismasted the boat), almost getting shot on a Fort Lauderdale boat ramp because I could not get my sailboat centered on the trailer, sailing into a palmtree and almost dismasting again. Going to the expense of replacing a wire/rope halyard on my first Montgomery and then cutting them both down to 20 feet since that is how tall the mast was, making a boat trailer in my welding shop that was too wide for the axle I had bought but used it anyway only to have the trailer frame wear a hole in the side of a trailer tire on the New Jersey TPKE. Ah yes, and I still like sailing. On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:24 PM, GILASAILR--- via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
'Badges of Honor - aka Learning Curve.
In a message dated 11/5/2016 7:28:34 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, drifkind@acm.org writes:
On Nov 5, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry about the trouble, Stan. The way your halyard jammed is one for the books. But then, things happen in bunches on boats. Ripped out rudders, dismasting it is all part of the "game”.
A lot of the stories I read—groundings. dismastings, scuttlings, whatever— are pretty intimidating. I figure I can start with _little_ disasters and work my way up to big ones.
On 11/6/2016 12:03 AM, Thomas Buzzi wrote: Tom, Add to that having a friend help you get the M15 out of the water by driving your car, with the mast up. I expected him to pull us out of the water and stop the car so that I could lower the mast. Instead, he decided to keep driving to his boat yard, about 150 feet away, and next door to the park where the launch ramp was located. Only, he forgot that there was a huge old oak tree with a very large limb crossing the road that was about 15 feet above the road. As he started heading down the road, I was frantically yelling for him to stop, but he didn't hear me with the windows closed. Then came the oak limb...... The forestay hit it pulling the mast forward; then the oak limb hit the mast. The mast buckled. That caused he driver of my car to finally stop, as the car stopped. He got out.... Said, sorry; .... and helped me lower the bent mast to the deck. I had to get a new mast and then put all the bits and pieces back in place to make a working mast again. The moral of the story: if you are asking someone to help drive the car to get your boat out of the water, make very certain that you explain to him exactly where he has to go; /_*and where he has to park the car and the boat as you leave the launch ramp*_/; otherwise it can get expensive, and involve a lot of totally unnecessary repair work. Connie
Yes, I graduated to the big stuff years ago. Dismasting, rudder ripped out of the transom, falling overboard (as I dismasted the boat), almost getting shot on a Fort Lauderdale boat ramp because I could not get my sailboat centered on the trailer, sailing into a palmtree and almost dismasting again. Going to the expense of replacing a wire/rope halyard on my first Montgomery and then cutting them both down to 20 feet since that is how tall the mast was, making a boat trailer in my welding shop that was too wide for the axle I had bought but used it anyway only to have the trailer frame wear a hole in the side of a trailer tire on the New Jersey TPKE. Ah yes, and I still like sailing.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:24 PM, GILASAILR--- via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
'Badges of Honor - aka Learning Curve.
In a message dated 11/5/2016 7:28:34 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, drifkind@acm.org writes:
On Nov 5, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote: Sorry about the trouble, Stan. The way your halyard jammed is one for the books. But then, things happen in bunches on boats. Ripped out rudders, dismasting it is all part of the "game”. A lot of the stories I read—groundings. dismastings, scuttlings, whatever— are pretty intimidating. I figure I can start with _little_ disasters and work my way up to big ones.
If he was over sixty asking him to stop once he got to the top of the ramp still might not have done any good.😩 On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Conbert Benneck <chbenneck@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/6/2016 12:03 AM, Thomas Buzzi wrote:
Tom,
Add to that having a friend help you get the M15 out of the water by driving your car, with the mast up. I expected him to pull us out of the water and stop the car so that I could lower the mast. Instead, he decided to keep driving to his boat yard, about 150 feet away, and next door to the park where the launch ramp was located.
Only, he forgot that there was a huge old oak tree with a very large limb crossing the road that was about 15 feet above the road.
As he started heading down the road, I was frantically yelling for him to stop, but he didn't hear me with the windows closed. Then came the oak limb...... The forestay hit it pulling the mast forward; then the oak limb hit the mast. The mast buckled. That caused he driver of my car to finally stop, as the car stopped.
He got out.... Said, sorry; .... and helped me lower the bent mast to the deck.
I had to get a new mast and then put all the bits and pieces back in place to make a working mast again.
The moral of the story: if you are asking someone to help drive the car to get your boat out of the water, make very certain that you explain to him exactly where he has to go; /_*and where he has to park the car and the boat as you leave the launch ramp*_/; otherwise it can get expensive, and involve a lot of totally unnecessary repair work.
Connie
Yes, I graduated to the big stuff years ago. Dismasting, rudder ripped out
of the transom, falling overboard (as I dismasted the boat), almost getting shot on a Fort Lauderdale boat ramp because I could not get my sailboat centered on the trailer, sailing into a palmtree and almost dismasting again. Going to the expense of replacing a wire/rope halyard on my first Montgomery and then cutting them both down to 20 feet since that is how tall the mast was, making a boat trailer in my welding shop that was too wide for the axle I had bought but used it anyway only to have the trailer frame wear a hole in the side of a trailer tire on the New Jersey TPKE. Ah yes, and I still like sailing.
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:24 PM, GILASAILR--- via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
'Badges of Honor - aka Learning Curve.
In a message dated 11/5/2016 7:28:34 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, drifkind@acm.org writes:
On Nov 5, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Thomas Buzzi <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com>
wrote:
Sorry about the trouble, Stan. The way your halyard jammed is one for
the
books. But then, things happen in bunches on boats. Ripped out rudders, dismasting it is all part of the "game”.
A lot of the stories I read—groundings. dismastings, scuttlings, whatever— are pretty intimidating. I figure I can start with _little_ disasters and work my way up to big ones.
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