Pride of Baltimore II: Setting Sail and Tacking

[rbgarr]

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[J. Dillon]

Beautiful shots ,:D

Thanks for posting them>

JD

[Kim Whitmyre]

Yes, indeed!

[rufustr]

Absobloodylutely bewdtyfull!!!!
Thank You.

[willmarsh3]

I really enjoyed these. :)

[rbgarr]

Pride really needs a snoot full of wind to get going, it seems. Shortly after I took those pics she coasted into a slow crawl as the breeze fell off just slightly.

They've extended their stay and will be taking out up to 35 passengers at $45 per for a three hour tour (" a three hour tour..." :D). When would I ever get to sail on her again, and so conveniently? My 90 year old mother-in-law is excited to go, too, so we'll see if we can pick a day with good breeze before Wednesday.

Dan Huisgen- 'Do that voodoo that you do' and conjure up a storm way offshore that will send some wind and big swells our way. I want lee rails under and decks awash weather! Aaarrrrgghhhh!!!

[George.]

Nice! :cool:

Smart tacking work, and good to see how they have the foretopsail drawing close hauled. Almost makes me want to get one... :D

[Russ Manheimer]

Great shots Dave; where where they taken? I've seen her at the North Cove Basin in Lower Manhattan. Nice new "French" spars.

Russ

[rbgarr]

Russ,

Those pictures were taken here in Boothbay Harbor yesterday afternoon. Today the wind is strong and gusty from the northwest.

One of the crew members said that an advantage of the heavily raked spars is that the yards can be trimmed closer to fore and aft than would be the case if the spars stood vertically. The shrouds are set aft on the bulwarks so the yards can be trimmed in tight.

By the way, and if I'm not mistaken, the first Boss Lady is moored here and belongs to the manager of a local boatyard:


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[bholderman]

Especailly now in August, here in San Diego with little wind, I hate that part of a sail. By the time sails are set, you're winded with a god awful amount of coiling to do, including ballantying which means those nice long halyards get coiled twice.

Most of the crew normally hopes for a breather before the first tack to get some water and breath, sometimes not.

That said, great pics...

[John B]

Fan tastic.
What were you in for a foto boat Dave.

[rbgarr]

My in-laws old Lyman hardtop. I was starting to sand and paint her for wedding barge duties when I saw the Schooner backing out of berth. The engine box is in pieces (rot), the forehatch is ashore (warped beyond saving) and other fittings were in various stages of detachment, but I chased Pride out the harbor anyway. On the return I could see that the Coast Guard was doing equipment checks and ticketing boats out in the fairway so I crept back to the dock along a lee shore, hoping that they don't like to stop people there if they can avoid it. Back at the dock I rummaged around and did an equipment check. The flares on the boat expired in 1997. Not good, so I got an Olin flare gun at an auction this morning and now only have to keep them in cartridges to stay current.

The crew (red t-shirts) was being run a bit ragged, but they're very young as far as I can see. It turns out my nephew sailed with the captain of Pride on Westward last year so he may be able to get us 'free passage' in the next few days.

What's ballantying?

[bholderman]

The crew (red t-shirts) was being run a bit ragged, but they're very young as far as I can see. It turns out my nephew sailed with the captain of Pride on Westward last year so he may be able to get us 'free passage' in the next few days.

What's ballantying?

Its a style of coiling we use on the Californian for the longer halyards. I couldn't come up with an interet link, so you'll have to use my description and pics (that means I am not the gospel).

Typically, the halyard is coiled as normal. But as the halyards are quite large even coiled, we use a ballantyne coil to reduced the height. Thus, with the first coil is complete, the coil is capsized and the ballantyne coil begins. Simply a normal coil is started with a couple of turns, then the coiling switches to creating three smaller loops into the coil, this allows the length of line to be distributed into the interior of the coil, using more line.

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Here a fellow crewmate begins the ballantyne.

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Typically, as our halyards are belayed, by the time we reach the top of a ballantyne, an unrecoverable hockle spoils the endeavor making a decently executed coil a bit ugly.

[rbgarr]

but the bo'sun just told us "Do it like this!" ... no name for it.

It's a good name... like the beer :D

Well, the beer wasn't good. IIRC it was horribly bitter and skunky, but the symbol on the can was three overlapping rings.

[webfoot]

Nice shot of the Eastwind, too. I was with Herb and Doris on the Appledore III on their circumnavigation '84-'86. I gotta get up there for a sail.

Chris

[rbgarr]

Herb is the best sailor in the harbor. As he takes his multiple daytrips out among the islands he has to deal with all kinds of people afloat. Lots of boats get too close to him trying to take pictures, etc. just as he needs to tack to avoid a ledge or when he has to head up to drop sails, etc. But he is always cheerful and waves to everybody. I swear he can read my mind when I'm racing because he always seems to know where and when I need to tack, etc. and is careful to be out of the way yet give his passengers a good view of the action. They seem to get a kick when the boats cut close across sterns and around buoys etc.

He must have been reassuring to have as the captain on a long voyage.

[shark_ef]

we don't actually ballentine halyards on pride II, they do a harpoon coil, major advantage:you can stand on it while you are hauling

[Figment]

Is it just the low angle of the light, or does that Aleiron have a soft grey hull? Nice.

[rbgarr]

It's the light. The hull is white. Your point about the nice soft grey appearance is, to me, important. A white hull on a sailboat, especially when heeling, will pick up the varied colors of the water or sunlight and give the hull an ever-changing and subtle hue. From time to time I've noticed my boat, just on the mooring, "change colors" from white to very pale variations of blue, green, pink, purple, yellow, orange and that grey.

I paint the bottom of my boat white, too. Never tire of looking at the keel and it's green appearance slicing through the seas. I feared I was going to have to give that up when Awlgrip ceased production of their Awlstar antifouling paint in white. Didn't want to go io the greyish Shark White Interlux paint. Fortunately Pettit came out with their Vivid line of anti-fouling in true white, which has been very color stable and effective.

All the other Alerion hulls in the harbor are a dark blue/black Awlgrip that is popular now. That one above is the only white one, the standard color that the boat comes in.