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My take would be that if you ever find yourself "stucK" with not being able to release your main as smoothly as you had intended to, then it's high time to fix whatever gets in your way - while accounting for your personal style --- and that of any crew....

Andrew Linn of Oregon got a couple pictures of my boat capsized on the Texas 200. These pictures were taken about 20 to 30 minutes after the capsize and the boat had settled some. I'm hanging on the centerboard since I had been trying to right the boat. Andy jump in and together the boat righted.



This weekend I was cleaning up the boat and noticed that my mast head had sand on it. One of the sheeves was jammed. I lost the windex in the capsize. I believe that during the capsize the mast head initially hit the shallow bottom of the area we were in. The two feet of floatation I added to the mast head brought it back up after the impact. I know the mast head was up when I swam back around to the cockpit to release the main sheet.

John

My kids are just old enough to start getting into sailing so they were looking over my shoulder as I went through this thread; and the first thing one of them said was "He needs to paint the bottom of his boat". I thought you may get a chuckle out of that.

In a couple of years I would like to take them down and sail that.

Yes, orange! (Although I admit, I wasn't curageous enough to go for such a bright color....)

John,
I hope you will be pleased to know the DSA governing board had awarded you the Day Sailer Association Cruising Award for you 2011 Texas 200 exploits. Well done and congratulations!

adam aunins,
My first thought on seeing the capsize picture was "I need to get that old paint off". I don't need to repaint it as I don't keep the boat in the water when not sailing.

GreenLake,
Orange, now there's a thought. Actually one of the Tx200 sailors suggested just putting advertising on the bottom.

Bob Hunkins,
Thanks for the award. I just sent my 2012 article in to the DS Quarterly.

John

What kind of advertisement? Wasn't there some company that use a really fitting tag line? Now what was it again? Oh, here I remember: "Help, I fell and I can't get up..." That would work!

How about an orange centerboard?

Last, but definitely not least: CONGRATULATIONS!

An Orange centerboard has already been done by Mistermoon when he sailed the Everglades Challenge in 2010.

John

My kid says: "nice, bright magenta then!"