I was crewing on a 40' IOR design boat (similar to a C&C) in the SYC Grand Prix regatta (late fall boisterous weather) back in the late 80's.
We were going to weather on starboard in +-15 TWS and heavy traffic. Shortly after the start a port tack J-29 was bearing off to cross behind when the J-29's tiller extension failed. The J-29 rounded up into the boat I was on and hit us soundly on the port quarter leaving a hole large enough to pass a 6-pack through. With a little water coming in and an unknown amount of structural damage we retired. At the dock it was determined some epoxy and glass cloth would affect temporary repairs. Overnight the work was finished and we sailed to second place finishes in the 2nd and 3rd races of the 3 race regatta. The owner protested for redress and the average of our finishes which would give us a 2nd for the regatta. At first the protest committee was going to disallow the redress request as the stand on boat shares a responsibility to avoid contact. I had read through all the appeals in the back of the official rules book and found an allowed redress for equipment failure leading to a collision. With that in hand we got our redress and 2nd place. Martin Calypso 1971 C&C 43 Seattle -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Abbott via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 6:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Stus-List Tiller Stories Years back we brought a Kirby 25 in here from Toronto to campaign.....it had a tiller with a Ronstan extension....where the extension fitted on to the tiller there was some 'duct tape'......it wasn't until season 3 that I decided to see what was under the 'duct tape' .....in other words, why was it there in the first place? Didn't seem to be needed. Well, guess what.....the 'duct tape' was the only thing holding the Ronstan tiller extension to the plastic base bolted through the tiller. What a surprise! We had participated in about 70 races with the tiller extension used all the time like this. God bless 'duct tape'. Rob Abbott AZURA C&C 32 - 84 Halifax, N.S. On 2014/07/09 3:41 PM, Joel Aronson via CnC-List wrote: > Brent, > > Several weeks ago a J30 broke its tiller at the windward mark, causing > havoc for the rest of the fleet. Fortunately, he was doing his usual > sloppy rounding and everyone managed to go between him and the mark as > he did 360s while out of control. Don't be that idiot! > > Joel > _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album Email address: [email protected] To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album Email address: [email protected] To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
