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| 1175.1 | Magazines available | ISLNDS::LANE | | Fri Apr 14 1989 15:44 | 16 |
| Small Boat Journal is an excellent magazine specializing in all
boats under 30'. Your issues have all been addressed, although
not specifically for a Catalina 22, in the last year's issues.
They just listed your boat as one of the best ever, along with the
Lightening, Hobie-14, etc.
I picked up a Catalina magazine at Gauch Brothers Marine in Shrewsbury
recently. It's basically a class newsletter for all sizes of
Catalinas. Helpful hints, personal experiences, and ads for
Catalina specific accessories were included.
Hope this helps, and enjoy your new boat.
Rick
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| 1175.2 | | XCUSME::JOHNSEN | | Fri Apr 14 1989 17:40 | 10 |
| I sail my Hobie at Massabesic Lake in Manchester N.H. There are
a lot of Catalinas on that lake. They all seem to moor at the
Massabesic YC. If you're in the area and feel like some
racing this might be a good place. The YC puts on races all
summer long, and the wind is some of the best for New England
lakes.
Enjoy,
Jeff Johnsen
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| 1175.3 | A Fellow Catilina Owner | CSOA1::GELO | | Fri Apr 21 1989 18:47 | 20 |
| As stated in .1, the best place to get information specific to the
Catalina 22 is in the "Mainsheet" (Catalina's National Association
magazine). I'm surprised Frank Butler didn't mention it to you.
You don't need to belong to any fleet or club to gain National
Association membership. All you do is send the Association your
annual dues (usually about $15), and you receive 4 issues per year.
There's lots of techy information, owner's modifications, and builder's
comments in the issues.
You picked a popular line. The Catalina 22 Class is one of the
strongest and largest fleets for Catalina Yachts.
I own a Cat 25 (since 81), and sail on Lake Erie. The boat holds
up to the occasional 4ft - 6ft chop pretty well.
I'll look through my back issues of Mainsheet and send you what
I can. Can you give me a mail to?
Carl
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| 1175.4 | C22 Association and reefing jack-line | CSSE32::BLAISDELL | | Sun Apr 23 1989 22:16 | 53 |
| re .0
Welcome to C22 sailing.
I also recommend that you join the C22 Association. Membership is $15 and
should be sent to Class Secretary: Loal Soafield, P.O. Box 7885, Eugene, OR
97401. Checks should be made payable to the Catalina 22 National Association.
Membership includes a subscription to MAINSHEET, a combined class magazine for
all the Catalina fleets. I suggest that you may also wish ot purchase a copy
of "Lifesavers: Catalina 22 Boating Tips". This was published about a year ago
and contains reprints of technical articles from several years of C22 MAIN
BRACE and now MAINSHEET publications. It costs $10 for members, $25 for
nonmembers (the $25 includes Association membership).
I just had a jack-line installed on my C22 mainsail. My mainsail, like most
C22 mains, uses sail slides shackled to grommets in the luff. With this
arrangement, the problem that occurs when reefing is that you have to visit
the mast to remove the sail stop and the bottom slide from the luff tube. This
is quite clumsy in reefing conditions.
The jack-line puts the bottom slide on a line that runs from just above the
reef points to the tack. The slide is held in position by running the
jack-line through two sail-slide shackles, one fastened to the grommet that
held the fixed sail-slide and the second to a new grommet placed just above.
The slide itself is also threaded onto the jack-line and is located between
the two shackles. It looks something like this:
| |
| |o <-- top of jack-line
| ||
| || o o <--- reef points
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| ||
| ||
| |o <-- sail slide shackle 1
| |[ <--- sail slide
| |o <-- sail slide shackle 2
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| ||
| +| <------ sail stop
| | <------ luff tube entry for bolt rope or sail slides
| ||
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| |o tack
| |=========================
Please call if you have any questions.
- Bob
C22 #11684
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| 1175.5 | Mainsheet has lots of good tips | EPSDEV::SAFDIE | It takes an EE to spell geek | Mon Apr 24 1989 14:39 | 41 |
|
I have owned a C22 for the past three seasons. I found the reefing and
raising/lowering sail less than simple at first because of the problem
of the slides popping out of the mast slot. I didn't find a sail stop to
be useful either.
I made a simple cover plate from some aluminum which solved the
problem very nicely. The plans were in a back issue of Mainsheet.
Basically, it's just 2 pieces of aluminum, filed smooth and bent to fit in
the slot entrance. It effectively reduce the width at the entrance so the
slides can't pop out but will still slide up and down. Two screws hold it
in place. This diagram may or may not make sense!
/|
/ | Make one for each side of the track.
/ |
---/ |
| " O | " indicates bend
| " | O indicates screw holes
| " |
| " | Top view
| " |
| " O | |
| " / -}<--- Screws
| " / |
|__"/ __|
<-------Mast slot (
__
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|
-}<-- Screws
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That and a topping lift have made raising/lowering sail and reefing a lot
easier for me.
Enjoy your boat.
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| 1175.6 | Thanks - | AITG::RAHAIM | | Wed May 03 1989 09:43 | 24 |
| First of all, I want to thank folks who took the time to respond.
The following is a quick view from a new owner (of a used Catalina):
The Catalina 22 group headed by Loal Schofield is a worthwhile way
of getting info and they've been very helpful. Their Lifelines publication
is good..but not complete.
The Catalina 22 Owner's Manual is a joke...but the owners group seems to
have made strides in supplementing it.
The two lessons I've learned:
* Learn from others...people are more than willing to help - we
all like to believe we know it all, but a little humility
goes a long way.
* Get out on the water and do it (but under reasonable conditions) -
I learned more in my first hour than I did reading all
winter...and more in 5 minutes of 20 knots wind than I
thought possible...as the saying goes..more than I wanted
to learn.
Jack
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