Speeding up launch

gatorjj@etrademail.com
20 Oct 1998 19:28:10 -0700


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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For this year's winter project, I've taken a little different twist. I want to do anything I can to speed getting my boat from being trailed to being sailed!

I've thought of a few things that might make it quicker--
- trailer with the motor on the transom
- trailer with the rudder on the transom (yet still holding the mast up somehow)
- finding some way to bag the jib still hanked on and sheets still run
- finding some way to keep the mainsail slugs in the mast/strap the mast to the boom (perhaps the most tricky of my thoughts)
- running the halyards aft to the cockpit, and leaving them strung when dismasting

I would expect to keep the boat rigged for quickness for quick trips to the lake, and probably yank it all down for the longer drives to overnight spots.

Any thoughts? Please shed some thoughts as to the level of craziness of some of these ideas, or perhaps some of your own crazy ideas which might get me in the water faster.

Thanks,

J.J. Falkanger
Cary, NC
P-19 #792 "Fozzguppy"