JohnnyTarr

The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (Hardcover) Peter T. Leeson

I found this book on Amazon but have yet to read it. So I don't know if it is any good or not.

Johnny Tarr

Aloha to you all, I have come back to this island of refuge after one long cruise. The great news is that I am now indepentantly wealthy. The bad news is that I have depentants. LOL. Those of you that remember me come by and I will get you drunk. Those of you that want to know me come by and I will buy you a drink. Till then I will be on the beach in my hammock or at the Pub.

I thought rope designated any cord that did not move but then I am new to this sailing thing.

Not only are you good looking your smart too.

Looks nice from the back and I like the pattern.

Sounds great, fair wind and calm seas to ya. Does the station have a webcast out? If so please get us the address I am certain that we would all love to hear ya.

You know things like this just suck. I mean you can understand a car crash or that kind of thing, but a slip and cracked head?

You two ladies are just too darn cute.

Looks like a lot of fun.

This is soooo cool.

sounds like it could be a good time. thx

I have sailed a few time in the past but I am new to calling everything by their proper names. Lots of new ones to learn and wrong ones to forget. What really happened with all of this rigging problems is that I talked myself out of the right way of doing it because I got a "manual" that showed the traveler at the transom and not to the centerboard like it is on my boat.

My boat is a 19th century design with a custom sail and mast so I can only give general advice. On mine, the traveler is a line attached to either side of the transom and going over the tiller. A line goes from the end of the boom to the traveler, back to the boom and along it to the half-way point. It then goes to the top of the centerboard truck and is controlled from there.

When I was researching how to set this up I found that some boats simplify this setup and just run the line from the midpoint of the boom to the centerboard trunk.

Mark

Yep that is what mine does. It has a line that goes from the aft end of the boom to a pully half way up the boom, it then goes to a pully on the centerboard trunk, from there it goes back to the rudder for control. I just have to fix the centerboard and get it out on the water.

I have sailed a few time in the past but I am new to calling everything by their proper names. Lots of new ones to learn and wrong ones to forget. What really happened with all of this rigging problems is that I talked myself out of the right way of doing it because I got a "manual" that showed the traveler at the transom and not to the centerboard like it is on my boat.

Update!!

Ok I knew how to step the mast and run the stays from the mast to the boat. I knew how to put the boom on and the sail. I have the manual for how to rig it but the manual is wrong for my boat. There is a line that controls just how far the boom travels and this is the line I have been having trouble with. Now I have figured out how to install that line correctly I thought I would take the boat out for a test run. Well that didn't go so well I found that the cable that keeps the centerboard up is snapped and I could not launch the boat. I could not launch the boat because the centerboard kept hitting the frame of the trailer. Now I need to fix that cable but to do that I need to figure out how to get access to the centerboard. So there she sits in drydock till I get it fixed.

Not bad Rumba not bad at all, but I will see your boat and raise you

http://woodenboatrescue.org/

Here I be reading Lighthouse Adventures and Haunted Lakes I and II. Nice reads easy to get into but not to long. Lots of great info.

Well I have learned how to rig my boat now all I have to do is get some time to put it in the water.

Please keep us informed if you need to unload any of that.

I will get the pics once I have her rigged up. I think that she will look better that way.

Well for all of you that know me I got an early birthday present. I bought myself a 14' O'Day Javelin. I brought it home this morning and I turned around and headed out for family stuff. Now when I got back I cleaned it up and tomorrow I hope to set it up and see how it all goes together.

Their complete lack of anything resembling seamanship just pisses me off even more.

Coastie

Im drunk and if I were on a ship it would be that way too. Would that piss you off? Just wonderin because I'm more like a pirate than a civilian.

dont mean any offense but you're right the guy is a douche and shouldn't command a vessel that deserves a proper crew.

but would you go on a ship thinking that you could handle it?

OK, a little more of a rant, as these people really tick me off. I'm not against either environmentalism or industry. I think there should be a balance betweent the two. However, I am against radicals. When the captain of this ship was kicked out of Greenpeace for being too radical, he lost pretty much all credibility to me. The things that they're doing are illegal, pure and simple. They are reckless, dangerous, and quite frankly I'd rank it up with attempted murder. Not only of the Japanese crew, but of everyone else on that ship. Have they ever done any drills to prepare for an emergency, let alone simple proceedures such as launching a boat (been there, done that, in rougher conditions...it's not too hard). If I recall correctly, they are not actually registered in any country. Therefore, they have no legal protection and any navy that encounters them on the high seas is legally able to board them and enforce their laws on the entire crew. Therefore, I propose that the Japanese Coast Guard (I don't believe they've had a navy since WWII, but their CG pretty much fulfills that roll) intercepts them, boards them, and arrests them all to be tried as criminals. They are no better than a terrorist organization attacking a foreign nation's commerce.

Their complete lack of anything resembling seamanship just pisses me off even more.

Coastie

I can't agree more with you.

Looks great. I am so jelous. I could make the box but not the cool woodburning.

Now this is something to look into. Thx for the post

See here is where I am on this right now. If the Japanesse did sign a treaty that says that they can not hunt whales then they are breaking the law. OKAY Now as it is a international law it needs to be handled by the goverenments. I know that such but it can not be handled by a bunch of vigleantes. One of those kids that thought that this was a good idea is going to get killed. I mean really, I have more experence with shipboard life than them. The other side is plain to see, if the Japanesse did not sign a treaty this is all out piracy plain and simple. If that is the case our government need to treat them just like any other criminal. Of course it is happening in international waters so what could out government really do?