My new Cal

Finally, The 1965 Cal 20 is mine, papers were signed and more importantly hands shook, yes I am now the proud owner of a Cal 20. The trailer she is on failed so I left her parked 43miles from my home port. I will go in the morning to hobble her over to the bay, launch and motor it to my Mooring. The trailer structurally failed before the Three Mile Bridge, which is a good thing because I still have the vessel and she is undamaged. It looks like my first launch will not be mast up, she will be launched, and she will be tenderly motored 50 miles to my mooring, then I can refit a trailer I have here so that she can be hauled out and tended to as she needs a bit of spiffing up and hardware bedded to make her the sailing vessel that she was built to be. I am HAPPY! JLC, FWB Vic 18 Cal 20

Congratulations. Sound like your earned this boat....good luck with everything. Um did someone mention a requirement is to change your name to Chris. There are five of us, no kidding, with CAL-20's and guess what our first names are. Wishing nothing but the best, and years of enjoyment on an American Classic sailing vessel. You will make your friends envious. While they are playing and preping their Cals and other boats, you will be out for a days sail. They are about as maintenance free as it gets...:) Where is home port for your jewel. /ch Chris #4 On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:07 AM, roaming_lawn_gnome <ro… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: > Finally, The 1965 Cal 20 is mine, papers were signed and more importantly hands shook, yes I am now the proud owner of a Cal 20. > The trailer she is on failed so I left her parked 43miles from my home port. I will go in the morning to hobble her over to the bay, launch and motor it to my Mooring. The trailer structurally failed before the Three Mile Bridge, which is a good thing because I still have the vessel and she is undamaged. It looks like my first launch will not be mast up, she will be launched, and she will be tenderly motored 50 miles to my mooring, then I can refit a trailer I have here so that she can be hauled out and tended to as she needs a bit of spiffing up and hardware bedded to make her the sailing vessel that she was built to be. > I am HAPPY! > JLC, FWB > Vic 18 > Cal 20 > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- /ch

It's easier to step the mast in the water than on the trailer. The Cal 20 web site gives directions that are well thought out. I use a 100' line thru a snatch block attached to the jib halyard to pull the mast up as a person stands in the cockpit and pushes it up. Attach both aft lower stays and one upper stay to support the mast from toppeling sideways. Wire your spreaders well and replace your spreader brackets if they have not been replaced with HD ones. You can order the brackets from Steve Seal's Rigging in Alameda CA. You can download his catalog on www.cal20 links. Sounds like your old trailer gave all it had. We trailer sailors have lots of sea(road?) stories to tell! Good sailing, My Best, Mike From: roaming_lawn_gnome <ro… [at] yahoo.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 9:07 PM Subject: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal Finally, The 1965 Cal 20 is mine, papers were signed and more importantly hands shook, yes I am now the proud owner of a Cal 20. The trailer she is on failed so I left her parked 43miles from my home port. I will go in the morning to hobble her over to the bay, launch and motor it to my Mooring. The trailer structurally failed before the Three Mile Bridge, which is a good thing because I still have the vessel and she is undamaged. It looks like my first launch will not be mast up, she will be launched, and she will be tenderly motored 50 miles to my mooring, then I can refit a trailer I have here so that she can be hauled out and tended to as she needs a bit of spiffing up and hardware bedded to make her the sailing vessel that she was built to be. I am HAPPY! JLC, FWB Vic 18 Cal 20 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

On 9/9/2011 9:23 AM, mike farrell wrote: > It's easier to step the mast in the water than on the trailer. > The Cal 20 web site gives directions that are well thought out. I use > a 100' line thru a snatch block attached to the jib halyard to pull > the mast up as a person stands in the cockpit and pushes it up. > Attach both aft lower stays and one upper stay to support the mast > from toppeling sideways. My method is very similar except we just use two guys. One holds the mast, standing all the way aft in the cockpit. The other one picks up the bottom of the mast and the two move it aft. At this point it's unbalanced--the guy at the mast foot has to hold it down. He runs the pivot bolt through and the stern guy pushes the mast up. When the stern guy reaches the forward end of the cockpit seats, the other guy grabs the mast while the stern guy steps up onto the deck. Push the mast up; it's held by the lower shrouds and the backstay; secure the forestay,; secure the other shrouds. > Wire your spreaders well and replace your spreader brackets if they > have not been replaced with HD ones. Two years ago we were putting my friend's mast up and the spreader bracket broke off just as we were lifting it. (!). I had already replaced mine with the stronger ones. > You can order the brackets from Steve Seal's Rigging in Alameda CA. Steve also sells the heavier backstay, which is also worth doing. Chris Campbell

My system is a lot easier. One day I will convert it to single man use. The method uses simple scaffold cross braces (17 dollars at Home Depot...and very strong) drill out the center pin that forms the X joint so you have two pieces of pipe. Bend the drilled ends as needed as you will be building a simple and portable A-frame. At the top of the A frame push a suitable steel bolt through one pipe then one loop a short 3 loop peice of chain and the other pipe, fasten with self securing nut at the other side. Measure it out and install a deck fitting that you can bolt the other end of the pipe too very easily. Then use the main sheet tied off to the bow and jib halyard conected to the chain on the A-frame to balance the A-frame in a dead vertical position. Align the mast step, this is where a second person is needed, and then start pulling in the main sheet. You can stop at any time as needed. Basically a take off from this method; http://www.sailingtexas.com/Movies/Hunter23lowermast/hunter23lowermast.html Makes quick work in any kind of weather, and if you are travelling and you encounter low bridges, well it takes less then 30 minutes to lower the mast allowing you to carry on with your travels. Regards /ch On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: > ** > > > On 9/9/2011 9:23 AM, mike farrell wrote: > > > It's easier to step the mast in the water than on the trailer. The > Cal 20 web site gives directions that are well thought out. I use a 100' > line thru a snatch block attached to the jib halyard to pull the mast up as > a person stands in the cockpit and pushes it up. Attach both aft lower > stays and one upper stay to support the mast from toppeling sideways. > > > My method is very similar except we just use two guys. One holds the mast, > standing all the way aft in the cockpit. The other one picks up the bottom > of the mast and the two move it aft. At this point it's unbalanced--the guy > at the mast foot has to hold it down. He runs the pivot bolt through and > the stern guy pushes the mast up. When the stern guy reaches the forward > end of the cockpit seats, the other guy grabs the mast while the stern guy > steps up onto the deck. Push the mast up; it's held by the lower shrouds > and the backstay; secure the forestay,; secure the other shrouds. > > Wire your spreaders well and replace your spreader brackets if they > have not been replaced with HD ones. > > > Two years ago we were putting my friend's mast up and the spreader bracket > broke off just as we were lifting it. (!). I had already replaced mine with > the stronger ones. > > You can order the brackets from Steve Seal's Rigging in Alameda CA. > > > Steve also sells the heavier backstay, which is also worth doing. > > Chris Campbell > > > > > -- /ch

Going to your link opened a scam site on my browser, telling me I've one an iPad 2. I closed my browser real quick. Beware all. Wilkie On Sep 9, 2011, at 7:58 AM, chris123 wrote: My system is a lot easier. One day I will convert it to single man use. The method uses simple scaffold cross braces (17 dollars at Home Depot...and very strong) drill out the center pin that forms the X joint so you have two pieces of pipe. Bend the drilled ends as needed as you will be building a simple and portable A-frame. At the top of the A frame push a suitable steel bolt through one pipe then one loop a short 3 loop peice of chain and the other pipe, fasten with self securing nut at the other side. Measure it out and install a deck fitting that you can bolt the other end of the pipe too very easily. Then use the main sheet tied off to the bow and jib halyard conected to the chain on the A-frame to balance the A-frame in a dead vertical position. Align the mast step, this is where a second person is needed, and then start pulling in the main sheet. You can stop at any time as needed. Basically a take off from this method; http://www.sailingtexas.com/Movies/Hunter23lowermast/hunter23lowermast.html Makes quick work in any kind of weather, and if you are travelling and you encounter low bridges, well it takes less then 30 minutes to lower the mast allowing you to carry on with your travels. Regards /ch On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: On 9/9/2011 9:23 AM, mike farrell wrote: > > > It's easier to step the mast in the water than on the trailer. The Cal 20 web site gives directions that are well thought out. I use a 100' line thru a snatch block attached to the jib halyard to pull the mast up as a person stands in the cockpit and pushes it up. Attach both aft lower stays and one upper stay to support the mast from toppeling sideways. My method is very similar except we just use two guys. One holds the mast, standing all the way aft in the cockpit. The other one picks up the bottom of the mast and the two move it aft. At this point it's unbalanced--the guy at the mast foot has to hold it down. He runs the pivot bolt through and the stern guy pushes the mast up. When the stern guy reaches the forward end of the cockpit seats, the other guy grabs the mast while the stern guy steps up onto the deck. Push the mast up; it's held by the lower shrouds and the backstay; secure the forestay,; secure the other shrouds. > Wire your spreaders well and replace your spreader brackets if they have not been replaced with HD ones. Two years ago we were putting my friend's mast up and the spreader bracket broke off just as we were lifting it. (!). I had already replaced mine with the stronger ones. > You can order the brackets from Steve Seal's Rigging in Alameda CA. Steve also sells the heavier backstay, which is also worth doing. Chris Campbell -- /ch

You sure about that. Here's what I get. Check the URL in the screen scrape. I clicked on the one in the post. The other way to get there is to go to sailingtexas(dot)com and click on the howto section. Then look for lowering hunter mast. Regards /ch On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:23 PM, David Wilkie Owen <dw… [at] me.com> wrote: > > Going to your link opened a scam site on my browser, telling me I've one an > iPad 2. I closed my browser real quick. Beware all. > > Wilkie > > >

I see the problem Wilkie...its an add. Firefox automatically blocks it for me. So clearing the cache and history on both Firefox and Google Chrome I can reproduce what you get. Just kill that page if it comes up. Personally I think its harmless but the safest way if you have a concern is to go to the sailing Texas web site, then in the blue header bar you will see a title called How To, click on that one, the add may appear if you don't have add blocking installed and proceed to the video. These are embedded in the site, not YouTube so I cannot provide you with a direct link. Sailing Texas is a pretty reputable site so I would be very surprised if anything malicious is going on here. Best regards /ch

David. You won an iPad TWO!!!!! YOU LUKY GUY!!! I'm jealous. (&%$#@!!) Jerry PS. Speaking of New Cals, When I was at Seal Beach Y.C./Alamitos Bay Marina, I replaced the 3/8" , long, hex drive, knurled thumb screws that came with my manual set traveler, that were holding the knoted ends of my travelr sheet, and my tiny wire size blocks to the ends of my track, that, together with similar blocks attached to the slider/main sheet car, gave me two to one mechanical advantage for converting it to a racing style traveler set up, with longer, 1/4" by half inch bolts. (I use 3/16" braid and cam cleats on the vertical side of the cockpit seat) Now the blocks are secure and won't pop out if I do a crash jibe in the Hurricane Gulch. Woooo HOooooo! Just like a new Cal! The extra 1/8" did the trick. Now I hope I don't snap my mast next time. From: David Wilkie Owen <dw… [at] me.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal Going to your link opened a scam site on my browser, telling me I've one an iPad 2. I closed my browser real quick. Beware all. Wilkie On Sep 9, 2011, at 7:58 AM, chris123 wrote: My system is a lot easier. One day I will convert it to single man use. The method uses simple scaffold cross braces (17 dollars at Home Depot...and very strong) drill out the center pin that forms the X joint so you have two pieces of pipe. Bend the drilled ends as needed as you will be building a simple and portable A-frame. At the top of the A frame push a suitable steel bolt through one pipe then one loop a short 3 loop peice of chain and the other pipe, fasten with self securing nut at the other side. Measure it out and install a deck fitting that you can bolt the other end of the pipe too very easily. Then use the main sheet tied off to the bow and jib halyard conected to the chain on the A-frame to balance the A-frame in a dead vertical position. Align the mast step, this is where a second person is needed, and then start pulling in the main sheet. You can stop at any time as needed. Basically a take off from this method; http://www.sailingtexas.com/Movies/Hunter23lowermast/hunter23lowermast.html Makes quick work in any kind of weather, and if you are travelling and you encounter low bridges, well it takes less then 30 minutes to lower the mast allowing you to carry on with your travels. Regards /ch On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: > > >On 9/9/2011 9:23 AM, mike farrell wrote: > >> It's easier to step the mast in the water than on the trailer. The Cal 20 web site gives directions that are well thought out. I use a 100' line thru a snatch block attached to the jib halyard to pull the mast up as a person stands in the cockpit and pushes it up. Attach both aft lower stays and one upper stay to support the mast from toppeling sideways. > My method is very similar except we just use two guys. One holds the mast, standing all the way aft in the cockpit. The other one picks up the bottom of the mast and the two move it aft. At this point it's unbalanced--the guy at the mast foot has to hold it down. He runs the pivot bolt through and the stern guy pushes the mast up. When the stern guy reaches the forward end of the cockpit seats, the other guy grabs the mast while the stern guy steps up onto the deck. Push the mast up; it's held by the lower shrouds and the backstay; secure the forestay,; secure the other shrouds. > > >Wire your spreaders well and replace your spreader brackets if they have not been replaced with HD ones. > Two years ago we were putting my friend's mast up and the spreader bracket broke off just as we were lifting it. (!). I had already replaced mine with the stronger ones. > > >You can order the brackets from Steve Seal's Rigging in Alameda CA. > Steve also sells the heavier backstay, which is also worth doing. > >Chris Campbell > > > > -- /ch

Sounds good! I have on 2 occasions tried this alone! Both times I broke something. Do it in the morning before the wind comes up. From: Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal On 9/9/2011 9:23 AM, mike farrell wrote: > It's easier to step the mast in the water than on the trailer. The Cal 20 web site gives directions that are well thought out. I use a 100' line thru a snatch block attached to the jib halyard to pull the mast up as a person stands in the cockpit and pushes it up. Attach both aft lower stays and one upper stay to support the mast from toppeling sideways. My method is very similar except we just use two guys. One holds the mast, standing all the way aft in the cockpit. The other one picks up the bottom of the mast and the two move it aft. At this point it's unbalanced--the guy at the mast foot has to hold it down. He runs the pivot bolt through and the stern guy pushes the mast up. When the stern guy reaches the forward end of the cockpit seats, the other guy grabs the mast while the stern guy steps up onto the deck. Push the mast up; it's held by the lower shrouds and the backstay; secure the forestay,; secure the other shrouds. Wire your spreaders well and replace your spreader brackets if they have not been replaced with HD ones. Two years ago we were putting my friend's mast up and the spreader bracket broke off just as we were lifting it. (!). I had already replaced mine with the stronger ones. You can order the brackets from Steve Seal's Rigging in Alameda CA. Steve also sells the heavier backstay, which is also worth doing. Chris Campbell

Just archiving this valuable info for posterestory. er..posteriorstory or, posterity. Finally, no funny curvy red line under the word. Reminds me, I've been putting of dropping me mast for a few years now. Got to replace the burned out tricolor and deck light with an LED bulb, or change it to something else, like a pulpit bi-color...and take the fershlugginer heavy romex wires out of my skinny little mast. Why doesn't this spelling software have correct spelling for yiddish-english-words? not even Bubbkis? Jerry Sphritz, Captain Josh Slocum's Yiddish progeny. From: mike farrell <ve… [at] yahoo.com> To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal Sounds good! I have on 2 occasions tried this alone! Both times I broke something. Do it in the morning before the wind comes up. From: Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal On 9/9/2011 9:23 AM, mike farrell wrote: > It's easier to step the mast in the water than on the trailer. The Cal 20 web site gives directions that are well thought out. I use a 100' line thru a snatch block attached to the jib halyard to pull the mast up as a person stands in the cockpit and pushes it up. Attach both aft lower stays and one upper stay to support the mast from toppeling sideways. My method is very similar except we just use two guys. One holds the mast, standing all the way aft in the cockpit. The other one picks up the bottom of the mast and the two move it aft. At this point it's unbalanced--the guy at the mast foot has to hold it down. He runs the pivot bolt through and the stern guy pushes the mast up. When the stern guy reaches the forward end of the cockpit seats, the other guy grabs the mast while the stern guy steps up onto the deck. Push the mast up; it's held by the lower shrouds and the backstay; secure the forestay,; secure the other shrouds. Wire your spreaders well and replace your spreader brackets if they have not been replaced with HD ones. Two years ago we were putting my friend's mast up and the spreader bracket broke off just as we were lifting it. (!). I had already replaced mine with the stronger ones. You can order the brackets from Steve Seal's Rigging in Alameda CA. Steve also sells the heavier backstay, which is also worth doing. Chris Campbell

I was thinking more about hacker's tweaking a known good site. Maybe I need to look at my security settings closer.... Thanks. Wilkie On Sep 9, 2011, at 10:56 AM, chris123 wrote: I see the problem Wilkie...its an add. Firefox automatically blocks it for me. So clearing the cache and history on both Firefox and Google Chrome I can reproduce what you get. Just kill that page if it comes up. Personally I think its harmless but the safest way if you have a concern is to go to the sailing Texas web site, then in the blue header bar you will see a title called How To, click on that one, the add may appear if you don't have add blocking installed and proceed to the video. These are embedded in the site, not YouTube so I cannot provide you with a direct link. Sailing Texas is a pretty reputable site so I would be very surprised if anything malicious is going on here. Best regards /ch

Captain Slocum was convinced that the Fuegains were saying "yammerschooner" which he believed was their way of begging. His Martini-Henry rifle protected his life and property. Spell check doesn't include yammerschooner either or most of the Gaelic my grandmother spoke in Co Mayo, I guess we'll just have to press on. Be safe this weekend and keep your powder dry. My Best, Mike From: Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 7:26 PM Subject: Stepping Mast also as::Re: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal Just archiving this valuable info for posterestory. er..posteriorstory or, posterity. Finally, no funny curvy red line under the word. Reminds me, I've been putting of dropping me mast for a few years now. Got to replace the burned out tricolor and deck light with an LED bulb, or change it to something else, like a pulpit bi-color...and take the fershlugginer heavy romex wires out of my skinny little mast. Why doesn't this spelling software have correct spelling for yiddish-english-words? not even Bubbkis? Jerry Sphritz, Captain Josh Slocum's Yiddish progeny. From: mike farrell <ve… [at] yahoo.com> To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal Sounds good! I have on 2 occasions tried this alone! Both times I broke something. Do it in the morning before the wind comes up. From: Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> To: "Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, September 9, 2011 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal On 9/9/2011 9:23 AM, mike farrell wrote: > It's easier to step the mast in the water than on the trailer. The Cal 20 web site gives directions that are well thought out. I use a 100' line thru a snatch block attached to the jib halyard to pull the mast up as a person stands in the cockpit and pushes it up. Attach both aft lower stays and one upper stay to support the mast from toppeling sideways. My method is very similar except we just use two guys. One holds the mast, standing all the way aft in the cockpit. The other one picks up the bottom of the mast and the two move it aft. At this point it's unbalanced--the guy at the mast foot has to hold it down. He runs the pivot bolt through and the stern guy pushes the mast up. When the stern guy reaches the forward end of the cockpit seats, the other guy grabs the mast while the stern guy steps up onto the deck. Push the mast up; it's held by the lower shrouds and the backstay; secure the forestay,; secure the other shrouds. Wire your spreaders well and replace your spreader brackets if they have not been replaced with HD ones. Two years ago we were putting my friend's mast up and the spreader bracket broke off just as we were lifting it. (!). I had already replaced mine with the stronger ones. You can order the brackets from Steve Seal's Rigging in Alameda CA. Steve also sells the heavier backstay, which is also worth doing. Chris Campbell

I do our club's web site and had a similar issue. Some members could get thru fine, some got warnings, some were blocked. Finally figured out the ones beings blocked were using Avast as their AV software...nobody else but them. Dropped an email to them complaining that they must be mistakenly flagging us since nobody else had an issue, and of course figured I'd never hear back. To my surprise I got a reply the next day, and they told me one page had a link that referred to a site with known malware content. The line didn't actually do anything it was just remarked out but it was inserted in my home page..I cleared it and the next day all was well..I was more surprised I got a response than that I had a problem.. No endorsement above, actually am not a big fan of any Anti Virus software for the reason above, the results vary too widely for me to believe any single one is worth buying and using..your mileage will vary. Beau 'Callipygian' The Cal 21with the lovely stern From: David Wilkie Owen <dw… [at] me.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal I was thinking more about hacker's tweaking a known good site. Maybe I need to look at my security settings closer.... Thanks. Wilkie On Sep 9, 2011, at 10:56 AM, chris123 wrote: I see the problem Wilkie...its an add. Firefox automatically blocks it for me. So clearing the cache and history on both Firefox and Google Chrome I can reproduce what you get. Just kill that page if it comes up. Personally I think its harmless but the safest way if you have a concern is to go to the sailing Texas web site, then in the blue header bar you will see a title called How To, click on that one, the add may appear if you don't have add blocking installed and proceed to the video. These are embedded in the site, not YouTube so I cannot provide you with a direct link. Sailing Texas is a pretty reputable site so I would be very surprised if anything malicious is going on here. Best regards /ch

In this case I think its advert revenue they are chasing. Today I went there again to test it and a consumer guidance page pops up. The site has gotten extremely popular since the passing of the founder, really nice guy, his new wife taking over and continuing the tradition, and the state of the US economy. Its now more popular then ever. What is interesting is that while the front page has click through ads, the following pages except the link for boats for sale, have pop up adverts. Thats really annoying and typically something a young lad who do chasing money. I dont know who runs the site from the technical end, but from the ownership side, they are good people. If you look at the code on the page with any browser you can extract the link for the video and get there directly as its embedded in the page rather then hosted remotely. So looking at the referring URL you get the link below http://www.sailingtexas.com/Movies/Hunter23lowermast/WMM_320265240_TYPE01.SWF?u=ybc&o=ybc&i=http://www.sailingtexas.com/Movies/Hunter23lowermast/hunter23lowermast320.jpg&b=3&f=http://www.sailingtexas.com/Movies/Hunter23lowermast/Hunter23lowermast320.flv&d=ybc Which if you look at it is really poor code...:) The video is pretty good however and pretty similar to the method we used in Ottawa on the River. One thing we added was a mast collar the was attached to premeasured 2x4s. The collar was basically chain wrapped in plastic, the kind you use for a bike lock then attached at a marked spot on the mast. The 2x4's could be anything solid really were attached tothe collar. In this manner you could raise the mast yourself in a pinch as, in addition to the stays, the 2x4s kept the mast in vertical alignment. We always has someone in the cockpit helping as it made it easier but your could do it alone from the bow if needed. Takes about 20 minutes to rig the entire thing up, and we typically would launch several boats this way at the local marina off the boat ramp as all were trailer sailors and the water levels are very high in the spring, even those boats with a 3.5 draft could be launched with a tongue. If the boat was 4 ft or more, we could have just let the trailer fly in on it own being attached to a towing tether but we did not have to resort to that. However Ive heasrd from friends in the States, its a very effective means for launching a CAL 20...:) /ch On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:27 AM, The SV Emergency Exit Crew < sv… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I do our club's web site and had a similar issue. Some members could get > thru fine, some got warnings, some were blocked. Finally figured out the > ones beings blocked were using Avast as their AV software...nobody else but > them. >

I tested the system on this page (using a concrete block for the counterweight) and found it worked very good on Calli. I always have to step the mast alone...seems like.. http://home.comcast.net/~vic-sitter/site/?/page/Mast_Raising_System/ For trailering I made a tall rear mast carrier with eyelets that slip over the pintles and it has a roller on it so I can roll the mast back until it can be hooked in the step. To counteract the imbalance a bungee cord stretched across the handrails keeps the base down. After that I follow what that guy does, tie the weight to the jib halyard, hoist the weight, cleat the line off, then I can go to the cockit and walk the mast up. Once you get the mast picked up about shoulder high the weight really kicks in..same thing going down, just about where you need to step off the cabin and the mast weight gets tough you've got just enough counterweight left to assist.. Now I wonder if I could make a pole that attaches to the pulpit and rests against the bow so I could use it in the water... From: chris123 <ch… [at] gmail.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] My new Cal In this case I think its advert revenue they are chasing. Today I went there again to test it and a consumer guidance page pops up. The site has gotten extremely popular since the passing of the founder, really nice guy, his new wife taking over and continuing the tradition, and the state of the US economy. Its now more popular then ever. What is interesting is that while the front page has click through ads, the following pages except the link for boats for sale, have pop up adverts. Thats really annoying and typically something a young lad who do chasing money. I dont know who runs the site from the technical end, but from the ownership side, they are good people. If you look at the code on the page with any browser you can extract the link for the video and get there directly as its embedded in the page rather then hosted remotely. So looking at the referring URL you get the link below http://www.sailingtexas.com/Movies/Hunter23lowermast/WMM_320265240_TYPE01.SWF?u=ybc&o=ybc&i=http://www.sailingtexas.com/Movies/Hunter23lowermast/hunter23lowermast320.jpg&b=3&f=http://www.sailingtexas.com/Movies/Hunter23lowermast/Hunter23lowermast320.flv&d=ybc Which if you look at it is really poor code...:) The video is pretty good however and pretty similar to the method we used in Ottawa on the River. One thing we added was a mast collar the was attached to premeasured 2x4s. The collar was basically chain wrapped in plastic, the kind you use for a bike lock then attached at a marked spot on the mast. The 2x4's could be anything solid really were attached tothe collar. In this manner you could raise the mast yourself in a pinch as, in addition to the stays, the 2x4s kept the mast in vertical alignment. We always has someone in the cockpit helping as it made it easier but your could do it alone from the bow if needed. Takes about 20 minutes to rig the entire thing up, and we typically would launch several boats this way at the local marina off the boat ramp as all were trailer sailors and the water levels are very high in the spring, even those boats with a 3.5 draft could be launched with a tongue. If the boat was 4 ft or more, we could have just let the trailer fly in on it own being attached to a towing tether but we did not have to resort to that. However Ive heasrd from friends in the States, its a very effective means for launching a CAL 20...:) /ch On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 9:27 AM, The SV Emergency Exit Crew <sv… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: > > >I do our club's web site and had a similar issue. Some members could get thru fine, some got warnings, some were blocked. Finally figured out the ones beings blocked were using Avast as their AV software...nobody else but them. >