Ok I don't know much about sailing, just don't flush toilet paper with your poop, you might block the onship plumbing. I'll be sleeping on the yacht Saturday nights 8, 15 & 22 in between lesson days. Also going to court on the 10th for holding what looks like licorice while driving. These lessons will constitute the backbone of my sailing awareness. All I've learned til now is from shopping on two yachts (both sold shortly thereafter). My first yacht will be small but I will take it into the ocean early in its career as Benji's yacht. Therefore possibly only one sail, possibly with a spinnaker. However the yacht I learn on will be fairly bigger and may have parts that my yacht won't. However as I'll be a qualified sailor by end of January, I'll likely volunteer at local sailing clubs as extra muscle.
Ok looking at some of the info from my coursework, I don't know what a halyard is. I believe the vang clutch is attached to the boom mast. Obviously the boom is the horizontal pole that controls the bottom horizontal part of the mainsail. These yachts likely have two or more sails not including the spinnaker. Ok the halyard appears to be some kind of thread that hoists up the mainsail like a rope, must be thread somewhere. Also I've noticed watching sailing on tv there are very sophisticated winching systems controlled by men with very muscular trunks that rapidly raise the sails in racing conditions. I can see myself doing that.
Bros I'll mention something that happened to me once that will sound unbelievable to you, it's like witnessing a UFO, nobody would believe you. I was chilling alone one time. Kind of unemployed and hermit like, around age 23 and a half. I'd dropped out of college for the second time and had no buddies, no goals, etc. This is typical in my life. Anyway I liked doing a lot of reading and spending time alone, all at basically no expense to the taxpayers, unlike prisoners, causing little distress to the public also. Anyway there I was in bed, with my book and I noticed coming into the window a little ephereal thread. It was like a psychic vision and seemed to be the manifestation of the fabled silver chord said to connect the astral body to the physical body. It's said when we sleep the astral body goes off via this silver chord. As it's somewhat intangible, we apparently cannot touch it, kind of like an emotion. Anyway I was in a passive minded state and tried kind of fingering this shimmering chord which was swirling around in slightly moving loops, through the gap in the window. Finally it seemed I could get my fingers close enough to it and I tried grabbing it and then a real life thread of hair was in my fingers and the chord disappeared. It's the only time I've ever seen the fabled mystical silver chord. The hair thread that came of it was real! I never bothered saving it but that was a real thing! Kind of like 9/11, not bullshit!
Speaking of fabled things, I don't see the harm in adding a link to a different fabled thing also involving hair however not one long strand but two tiny stubbles....
https://youtu.be/_7dr6PCeW4c
Hoisting the mainsail
- Helmsman to keep the yacht pointing into the wind. The mainsail will
flap as it is raised and the boom will be out to one side of the cockpit.
3 key crew Positions:
Timeline 1. By the Mast 2. The Pit 3. Mainsheet
1 Attach main halyard
to head of sail
2 Remove sail ties
3 Release the Vang
clutch
4 Mainsheet eased on one
winch, leave one turn on
the winch and keep the
boom under control
throughout hoist
5 Topping Lift pulled
tight
6 Reefing line jammers
opened (x3)
7 2 turns of Main
halyard around a
winch
8 Sweat the sail up the
mast
Tail the main halyard
(pull in the slack out of
the rope as the sail
goes up)
9 Keep an eye on the
mainsail going up and
call ‘halyard made’
when at the top
Load the halyard into
the winch and grind
the remainder of the
sail up
Keep an eye on the
mainsail whilst it is going
up
10 Topping lift eased
11 Mainsheet pulled tight
and loaded onto winch
12 Vang clutch closed and
pulled tight and
reefing line clutches
closed
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