Boat Peparation

Preparing Toccata for sail requires these activities:

Before you get to the boat

  1. Check weather reports
  2. Check Sailflow for wind predictions
  3. Check wind reports for current wind predictions
  4. Check tide
  5. Check sailing instructions (if it’s a regatta or race)
  6. Bring appropriate clothing and gear
  7. Bring provisions as requested

At the Boat

  1. Lower the boat into the water until the boat is all the way in the water and slings are unloaded (they start to bend)
  2. Adjust the amount of slack in the slings to keep the wind from pushing the boat onto the finger piers
  3. hose off dirt and bird poop from the deck and cockpit
  4. A/C off the boat
  5. AC accessories stowed on the boat
  6. shore power disconnected and stowed on the boat
  7. battery charger unplugged and unhooked from battery
  8. tiller and compass cover off and stored below
  9. trash bag rigged
  10. coolers filled
  11. check bilge and pump as needed
  12. tune rig for the day’s wind forecast
  13. Lubricate shackles, slides, and other hardware with McLube as needed
  14. select jib and bring to fore deck
  15. tie jib sheets to jib with bowline
  16. attach jib halyard to jib and tape the shackle
  17. slide the jib head through the feeder and barely into the luff foil, take out slack in jib halyard so the sail stays in the foil. snap foredeck bungee cords over jib to hold in place.
  18. install the tweakers
  19. run the spin sheets from the blocks at near the stern to the tweakers and to the port side of the companionway and tie them off. the starboard sheet will have to pass outside the shrouds and around the headstay to to port side. be sure the sheets are outside the lifelines
  20. Mount the rock box on the mast, power on, and select the desired display
  21. take gas can from dock box and load on boat
  22. two winch handles into the cockpit
  23. mount tiller extension on tiller
  24. power on instruments
  25. prepare the spinnaker pole
  26. rig downhaul and topping lift
  27. attach spin sheets
  28. attach spin halyard to spin head and tape the shackle
  29. run the tapes on the spinnaker
  30. Select the main and bring on deck
  31. Ease outhaul
  32. Attach outhaul to the main clew
  33. Attach the main tack at the fast pin
  34. Flake main onto boom an tie with sail ties
  35. Attach main halyard to main head
  36. Feed head of main into mast groove

 

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