HaHA Andrew, BUSTED!
You have to be careful, many employers also utilize monitoring software, to keep track of where employees surf. Getting caught can be a career limiting event.
Hey, I'll take you up on your offer of those little springs for the cam cleat. My traveler cleat wouldn't hold yesterday, so we tied it to the tramp lacing,(now I know why I used 1/4" dyneema!) so that it had about 8" movement from center. The wind was 25 mph, as recorded on the buoy just down the bay, & the seas were crazy. A strong front had passed & the waves were 3', from two different directions. When they meet you get 4+' vertical waves, sometimes only a foot or two apart. I couldn't believe how the boat emulated a mechanical bull. We still went nearly full power, I'm amazed nothing broke, both hulls were under water at times, right up to the tramp, rooster tails off the main beam. We both got washed off the hull while trapped out,twice, it's quite a gymnastic event to attempt to head up when you are both overboard being drug by the harness! My buddy is yelling "head up" - Fool,I would if I still had hold of the tiller. "Release some power" - can't man, don't have the main sheet either, hang on, it's still cleated, I think we can save it.
That was my 33rd day on the boat this summer, & the wildest ride ever. Technically we never dumped. In one crazy wave set, combined with that of a large boat wake, & a sudden drop in wind, we slow motion flipped, INTO the wind. We both went off the windward hull as it went over, but just as the I was thinking, damn we have to right it & the mast was horizontal about 4' off the water, a gust hit & flipped the boat upright. We were still attached by the hooks, & scrambled aboard, hunted down lines & blasted off again. I'm still stiff this morning.
I'll send you a PM & some cash for a couple of those springs, can't find them here..
edited by: Edchris177, Sep 12, 2010 - 10:09 AM