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Good Morning from a Partly Cloudy Upper Chesapeake Bay,
My name is Patrick McGough and I was given/donated the 1964 Hull#79 Tartan 27?Petrel.? Previously owned by a former editor of?Chesapeake Bay Magazine, this particular boat seems to be in great shape.? I have joined the Chesapeake Bay Tartan Sailing Association and purchased their 132 page manual and have probably read it thru 5 times now.? I was glad to see a group specifically for this boat and am excited to hopefully see it continue (unlike so many sites that seemed like a good idea at the time).? The previous owner partnered with a gentlemen who was a hell of a woodworker and made all kinds of wooden "what-nots" and steadily working my way thru what goes where.? I am curious to hear about other boats in the area.? I will be sailing her out of the Patapsco in the Inner Harbor (always fun playing chicken with the big merchant ships).? I am currently a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary and am also a Sea Scout skipper (trying to get youth passionate about the water and all things maritime).? I wonder if there have been others that have raced their T27s.? I think I read somewhere the owner of this group might have raced hers somewhere up New York way.? Would love to hear about that.? A lot of groups are doing virtual happy hours, virtual meetings and seminars and I wondered if there might be an interest in doing something like that with this group.? I have a Zoom account and would be happy to host such an event even it turned out to only be a couple of us, just to virtually introduce, talk sailing, and talk about our boats.? I might even be tempted to set up my meeting space aboard?Petrel. Let me know and I would be glad to organize something like this in the next couple of weeks.? We could do any evening or a Saturday or Sunday.? I guess as we all come out of quarantine or start visiting our boats we may not have the time, but I think it could be fun to just virtually meet. Patrick McGough |
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Hi Patrick,
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Welcome to the group and congrats on your well cared for boat! Definitely a bit undersocialized here so I'm game, but also not bored at least. Only casual racing with the small local club. I do fine but there's one little cat rigged boat that carries a ton of sail that goes off the front when things are light, and I don't have large headsails to fly, only a roller furler probably 120 jib. As far as I can piece together from history, previous owners have been pretty in to racing this boat and had plenty of first places. As the Handbook says, she sails best on her feet. I think the giant barn-door rudder is probably a big part of that. Get balanced sails and a neutral helm and she's on skates. But as I was just remarking, it's been way more refitting than sailing so far. No doubt the serious racers have since moved to vinyl and epoxy boats with deep fins and planing hulls and high aspect rigs. A large part of sailing is still skill tho. And no design is optimal for all conditions. Folkboats plough through rough waters instead of bobbing, and they carry powerful rigs with a low center of effort and outsail larger and much newer boats on the San Francisco Bay. So one winning strategy is knowing your strengths and refusing to play unless conditions are in your favor =) Btw, I finished reading _Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay_ a bit ago and recommend it as a sort of anthropology and natural history, even though that's not my stomping ground. Everything I know about from the Chesapeake Bay is currently from there. Volunteered twice a week for years teaching dinghy sailing, btw. 27' feet of lead and complex stuff still stresses me out. Getting people on the water is a fantastic cause. Harder logistically for me to do now but I was hoping to park at a marina down in Berkeley and spend a good chunk of this summer doing that but Cal Sailing Club is of course shuttered. I'm in upstate New York part time now too. Would love to see your wooden what-nots. Cheers, -scott On 0, patrick.mcgough@... wrote:
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Greetings Patrick and welcome to the T27 owners club.
It sounds like #79 was probably well taken care of.? If so, you are lucky.? You are also lucky because the T27 is a great boat for the Chesapeake with it's 3'6" draft with the board up you can get into some gunkholes and up some creeks that few larger boats can reach.? She is a good sailor and competitive in a slower PHRF racing division.? One of the secret weapons the T27 has is that the centerboard can be partially deployed or not deployed at all.? In certain conditions (light winds) there is no need for the centerboard which only provides more whetted surface and drag.??
I have sailed a bit around the mid-Chesapeake/Annapolis on a friends boat and have been a little ways up the Patapsco.? Have they taken down that eyesore Sparrow's Point yet?? Some of my favorite spots are on the eastern shore though there are a few nice spots along the western shore.? Harness Creek off the South River comes to mind.
I think your offer of setting up a zoom meeting for T27 sailors is a fine idea.? We all may never meet in real life but Zoom would be the next best thing.? Picking a date and time may be a challenge but as you say, we don't need every member present at any given time anyway.??
I'm not sure if anyone here knows what IRC chat is but there is a ##sailing chatroom there which is free.? I like to monitor what goes on there and the people on there are smart and helpful, usually.? You can download an app so you can chat from your smart phone or here is a link to an IRC portal page:??https://sailingfortuitous.com/chat/
My best,
Caleb D
T27 #328
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To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, May 16, 2020 7:53 am Subject: [T27Owners] Introduction Good Morning from a Partly Cloudy Upper Chesapeake Bay,
My name is Patrick McGough and I was given/donated the 1964 Hull#79 Tartan 27?Petrel.? Previously owned by a former editor of?Chesapeake Bay Magazine, this particular boat seems to be in great shape.? I have joined the Chesapeake Bay Tartan Sailing Association and purchased their 132 page manual and have probably read it thru 5 times now.? I was glad to see a group specifically for this boat and am excited to hopefully see it continue (unlike so many sites that seemed like a good idea at the time).? The previous owner partnered with a gentlemen who was a hell of a woodworker and made all kinds of wooden "what-nots" and steadily working my way thru what goes where.? I am curious to hear about other boats in the area.? I will be sailing her out of the Patapsco in the Inner Harbor (always fun playing chicken with the big merchant ships).? I am currently a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary and am also a Sea Scout skipper (trying to get youth passionate about the water and all things maritime).? I wonder if there have been others that have raced their T27s.? I think I read somewhere the owner of this group might have raced hers somewhere up New York way.? Would love to hear about that.? A lot of groups are doing virtual happy hours, virtual meetings and seminars and I wondered if there might be an interest in doing something like that with this group.? I have a Zoom account and would be happy to host such an event even it turned out to only be a couple of us, just to virtually introduce, talk sailing, and talk about our boats.? I might even be tempted to set up my meeting space aboard?Petrel. Let me know and I would be glad to organize something like this in the next couple of weeks.? We could do any evening or a Saturday or Sunday.? I guess as we all come out of quarantine or start visiting our boats we may not have the time, but I think it could be fun to just virtually meet. Patrick McGough |
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