R19 Sailing Guide
2.0 Rigging the Mainsail and Jib.
4.0 The Lifting Keel and Rudder
Club Sailing R19s have a full inventory of sailing equipment, including harbour charts and a buoyancy aid for each member of the crew. For racing a spinnaker can be provided. Wide beam and high freeboard make R19s dry boats, but waterproof outer clothing should be worn if conditions are windy. Sailing gloves would make life more comfortable for those not ‘hardened’ as sheets and halyards are quite thin. You will be taken out to your boat by launch, when the main hatch will be removed and the principal elements of the boat will be pointed out. (Back)
2.0 Rigging the Mainsail and Jib.
This operation is normally completed on the mooring. If a strong tide is running against a light breeze, however, it may be preferable to sail off the mooring under jib only and round up into wind to set the mainsail. (Back)
Remove the sail cover by releasing turn buttons and buckles.
Detach the main from the aft end of the boom and attach it to the head of the mainsail.
CHECK THAT THE DOUBLE HALYARD IS NOT TWISTED, then feed the mainsail into the mast groove and hoist a few inches.
Cast off the mainsheet and kicking strap tackles.
Hoist the sail with the main halyard - it may be necessary to ‘feed’ the sail into the mast luff groove and lift the boom.
Securely jamb the halyard when the sails appear tight.
Tension the kicking strap tackle. (Back)
The jib is furled on a roller headstay.
Uncleat the furling rope and pull on either sheet, and sail will unfurl.
CHECK THAT THE SPINNAKER HALYARD IS SLACK AND AWAY FROM THE TOP OF THE JIB TO AVOID WRAP. (Back)
First decide whether it is easier to leave the mooring on port or starboard tack.
A crew member on the foredeck unclips the carbine hook and holds the mooring rope
Pull the clew of the jib to windward to push the bows of the boat onto the chosen tack, before releasing the mooring line.
Then sail away!! (Back)
4.0 The Lifting Keel and Rudder
The centreboard is raised and lowered by a rope emerging from the aft face on the cabin, through a cleat. The R19 is a ballast keel boat and, whilst sailing, the centreboard is restricted from being lifted beyond 35 degrees of rake by a wire strop terminated in the cockpit floor. The keel may be lifted further when the boat has run aground and all sheets are eased, or when anchoring in shallow water with the sails dropped, by releasing this clip. THIS PREVENTOR MUST BE RECONNECTED IMMEDIATELY SAILING IS CONTINUED
The rudder blade can be lifted by unscrewing the clamp on the stainless steel frame. Make sure it is well released. (Back)
The R19 has sailing characteristics similar to those of a large dinghy. It is stable and forgiving and the only potential hazard is being struck by the boom. Try to avoid involuntary gybes! In windy weather your boat will be reefed when you go aboard. If you are sailing under full mainsail and the wind increases first ease the pressure on the mainsail by easing the mainsheet traveller down the track, if necessary, apply moderate tension to the backstay tackle to further depower the rig. If the boat is still overpowered it must be reefed. If you wish to sail with the boom clear of the cockpit, you can. Lock the luff cunningham on a reef hook and pull in the first reef. (Gold rope). (Back)
Cast off the mainsheet and Kicking strap tackles and allow the mainsail to flag to one side of the boat
Lower sufficient mainsail to allow the first or second reefing eye in the luff on the sail to be hooked into the windward reefing hook at the front of the boom.
Retension the main halyard an pull the first (Gold Rope) or second (Green Rope) reefing line fully home and engage jamber at forward end of the boom. Retension the kicking strap tackle. (Back)
Allow the sail to ‘flag’. Release the kicking strap tackle and slacken the main halyard to enable the reefing hook to be removed.
Cast off the reefing line, by pulling by pulling on the reefing line, which will release the jamber.
Hoist the mainsail and tension the kicking strap. (Back)
The boat is equipped with an anchor attached to 2m of chain and a nylon anchor warp.
Ensure that the warp is securely attached to the bow eye before lowering the anchor over the side.
Pay out a length of anchor warp equal to at least three times the depth of the water.
NOTE. IF THE ANCHOR IS COVERED IN MUD WHEN RETRIEVED - PLEASE WASH IT OFF BEFORE BRINGING ABOARD. (Back)
The boat sails very well on jib only and will tack to windward. Unless there is very little wind IT IS ADVISED TO DROP THE MAINSAIL WELL BEFORE THE MOORING. (Back)
Lower the boom onto the side deck and push the sail into the cabin, leaving the headboard in the mast to control the sail.
Pick up the mooring buoy and haul up until the mooring hook can be clipped into the LARGE SHACKLE at the top of the chain.
Roll up jib WATCH THE SPINNAKER HALYARD
Flake the mainsail over the boom and wrap the part above the top batten round the boom to hold it in place
Fit the sail cover. (Back)
Care of the boat whilst sailing
PLEASE DO NOT STAND ON THE MAIN HATCH - IT IS ONLY A LID
PLEASE TRY TO PROTECT THE HULL GRAPHICS BY PROPER BERTHING AND USE OF FENDERS
PLEASE DO NOT FORCE ANY OF THE EQUIPMENT AS THIS IS NOT NECESSARY - CHECK AND FIND THE PROBLEM (Back)
NB WHEN OPERATING THE LIFTING OUTBOARD BRACKET, ALWAYS ENSURE THAT THE ENGINE IS IN THE UPRIGHT POSITION AND ONLY HOLD THE ENGINE BY THE CARRYING HANDLE (Back)
Lower the engine carefully on its bracket
The cut out switch must be overridden with the dead-man-clip.
Turn the petrol and choke controls to ‘on’
Unscrew the air bleed on the filler cap
Set the throttle to start and pull the starting cord
When the engine fires the choke control can be turned to off (Back)
Press the stop button
Turn the petrol to off
Screw in the air bleed
Hoist the engine to the sailing position (Back)
Boats electing to race in the spinnaker division will be rigged with a chute, pole and sheets. The retrieval line will be flaked out on the cabin sole. (Back)
Check the retrieval line is clear on cabin sole
Clip the outer end of the pole to the appropriate guy and hoist the pole to a horizontal position (Pole up - Red rope and Pole down - Blue rope)
Pull the halyard and also the sheet and guy to release the spinnaker from the chute and hoist fully
Trim the sheet and guy
Flake the halyard onto the cabin sole
The spinnaker is gybed by ‘end for ending’ the pole, keeping the windward jib sheet on top of pole as you gybe. (Back)
Let go the halyard whilst pulling in the retrieval line
Release the sheet and guy as the spinnaker drops
Lower the pole outer end to the deck and secure by tensioning pole down
Flake the retrieval line onto the cabin sole (Back)
Home
| The Venue | The Boats | Corporate
Charter | Tuition | Racing
| Contact Us | Charges
CLUB SAILING POOLE
Lake Yard, Lake Drive, Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset, BH15 4DT.
Tel: 01202 687575 Fax: 01202 687578
mailto:clubsail@globalnet.co.uk
Webmaster: dataweb@globalnet.co.uk