The 4th time I was so tired, I could right the cat but couldn't get back onboard. After 10 min hanging at the righting-line and several attempts to get aboard, I decided to fire a smoke-signal wich is always in my life-vest.
Watertemp was 10degr C and Airtemp 11degr C .
Was rescued by a friendly skipper who even gave me a tow back to the cat-beach.
An elderly skipper at the cat-club (67), showed me his setup how to climb on board.
He tied a 12 mm line to the front crossbar hull to hull, the slack on the line is just deep enough in the
water to put a knee or foot on it , while you're in the water.
When you try to climb onboard this line will go under the tramp and is not very helpful.
Now here's the smart-part, he braided another line to center of the boarding-line, ran it through a block
attached in the center of the bridle for the forstay. Tied a stopper-knot behind the block to prevent the
boarding-line from going under the tramp.
The stopperline is braided to a shock-cord witch is ran under the tramp, it keeps the whole setup out of
the water while sailing.
Here's a drawing,
Fiddled a bit with line-lenght on my P18-2, and now it works perfect and makes my wintersailing-project
a lot safer.
If somebody is interested, will post some pics.
Regards, André
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Tornado (80's Reg White)
Prindle 18-2 (sold)
Dart 16 (hired and hooked)
13 mtr steel cutter (sold)
Etap 22, unsinkable sailing pocket cruiser.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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