On Aug 3, 12:55 pm, katy wrote:
Joe wrote:
On Aug 3, 12:34 pm, katy wrote:

Joe wrote:

What's the best way to tack when yer flying two headsails without
someone on the fore deck feeding the forward forsail around the aft
forsail stay?

Ya follow me? Say a 100% on both forestays.

Joe

Roll up the forward sail to where it won't interfer and tack on the
foresail attached to your jib boom...then let out the foresail when the
tack is nearly completed....

I'd rather feed it around by hand then risk roll up failure at sea,
no jib boom...yet.
Guess I could use block and tackle from the bow to the fore foresail
clew in the same way.

Joe

If you're having roll up failures maybe you need to get your furler rig
upgraded....without a furler it sounds like a mess...BTW...are you
having that dead sea preoblem where you're at because of all the unusual
heavy rains in Texas flooding the Gulf and keeping the oxygen levels
low? They had a blurb on the tube the other night (May have been CNN)
where an ocenaographer was talking about the shrimp industry possibly
suffering, along with some of the commercial fishers....- Hide quoted text -

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Well the baby shrimp are being washed out of the grasslands a bit
young I suspect, but I don't really know how it's affecting the shrimp
season. I may have to run to Roseys and see..sounds good for dinner.
We have had 18 inches of rain in the last 30 days. The local
weathermen are comparing the history of heavy rain in July and are
tying it to major hurricane strikes here in Texas. In 1900 they has a
similar rainy July and Galveston got wiped out, same when Camellie and
Alicia years.

Most likely they are just grasping straws. Knock on wood.

From Da news:
After a rather wet July, the National Weather Service said the threat
of late season hurricanes should be a concern for Southeast Texans.

Meteorologist Jim Sweeney said the Golden Triangle has seen more than
twice the normal amount of rainfall for this time of year and is
caused by a weaker high pressure ridge in the Atlantic.

"What it does is swing like a conveyor belt all the moisture right
into Texas," he said. "The upper level low pressure is a like magnet
on moisture."

Sweeney said the NWS always tells people to have their emergency
preparedness kits ready because it is never too early to prepare.

"Review your tropical preparedness information, check to see if you
have enough batteries, cash on hand, drinking water and at least a
half a tank of gas," he said.

Sweeney said recent high level easterly winds concern him, but any
tropical development at this time would cause more trouble for the
Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles than the Gulf of Mexico.

"The trajectory would take it (tropical formations) to the Yucatan if
anything develops," Sweeney said. "But ultimately, something could
develop if the water temperature increases like it does in the later
summer months."

The NWS meteorologist said to minimize tropical activity, he would
like to see westerly winds in the tropics to keep any formations from
developing.

However, the rain Southeast Texans have seen during the week will
continue due to favorable upper level dynamics.

"Beyond Friday, the forecast calls for less rainfall, but everyone
should keep an eye on the weather at least a week in advance," Sweeney
advised.

Joe