Air Temp 79 F, Dewpoint 76 F, Wind NE 9 knots gusting 10.
Took ST. JACQUES out in a little more wind to play with the sprit rig, Skipper could get her to point pretty high for a sprit, head where she wanted but at a slow pace. We fell off a bit and moved ballast aft, ST. JACQUES is happiest on a broad reach or run, which is what we envisioned when we designed her, to row out a bit against the wind and/or tide, then time it so we could ride the tide and wind back to the beach.
The brail line doesn't run as free as I like through the block at the top of the mast, which is a bronze Wilcox and Crittenden block from a Sunfish, so we are going to swap that block with something smaller. We also are going to tighten up the bridle a bit so it doesn't interfere with raising the tiller and that will give us a better sheeting angle.
Video: https://youtu.be/YdBo0A7BoGc
Bridle off of belaying pin on quarter knee.
We run the sheet around the pin at times to adjust the sheeting angle, close hauled.
The sprit is the spar that goes to the peak of the sail.
The snotter is the line that controls the setting of the sprit spar from the bottom pin. On some boats the snotter is fixed length. We like to be able to lower our sprit from down low in the boat, should too much breeze come up.
Video: https://youtu.be/ovPwWkWMRY0
Log of ST. JACQUES.
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