KEELBOAT  PROCEDURES

PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF THE FOLLOWING PREPARATIONS PRIOR TO SETTING SAIL:

•    Confirm with the office the specific name and number of your boat.
•    Wear your life jackets at all times and DO NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO SWIM FROM THE  BOAT!!!
•    Check for water in the keelbox and cockpit. Pump out, if necessary. (This must be done every sail.)
•    Check for required equipment: pump, paddle, type  4 throwable cushion, anchor w/line, first aid kit, and whistle.
•    Check all standing rigging for problems: missing ring pins, loose stays, shrouds, etc.
•    Check all running rigging for problems: chafed or missing lines, broken cam cleats, etc.

PREPARE TO LEAVE THE MOORING IN THE FOLLOWING WAY:

1.    Unroll jib and snap onto headstay. Cleat jib sheets so jib won’t go in water.  Do not raise the jib on the mooring!!!
2.    Uncover mainsail and stow cover in starboard lazarette.
3.    Ease mainsheet, vang and outhaul and attach main halyard.
4.    Raise head of mainsail to the tape at the top of the mast.
5.    Tension cunningham, then outhaul, then vang.  Tweak sail shape once underway.
6.    All boats are equipped with reefing lines.  Do not untie any part of the reef line! When reefing, do not over tighten reef points. It will destroy the sail.  If there are white caps on the water, reef the mainsail!
7.    Release mooring. (Back mainsail to get desired tack. Tiller toward boom.)
8.    Once clear of the moorings, uncleat jib sheets and raise jib (all the way to the top).
•    Sail in West Harbor only.  Only boats with an auxiliary engine are permitted east of Brickyard Point. Assistance rendered outside of West Harbor will result in significant charges.  
•    Do not secure the keelboat to any dock.  Use mooring only.
•    CONSTRUCTION CAUSED NEW SHOALING TO SOUTH & WEST OF MOORING FIELD.
•    Stay at least 100 yards offshore to prevent grounding.

MOORING AND STOWING THE BOAT SHOULD BE DONE IN THE FOLLOWING WAY:

1.    Lower the jib onto the foredeck before you get back to the mooring field and secure it.
2.    Return to any mooring that is marked with 150 lb. (The larger moorings are to the north of the mooring field and are reserved for our cruising boats).
3.    Approach the mooring SLOWLY!!! Luff the mainsail early and approach on a close reach, under mainsail only.  Mainsheet and vang should be free. Do not approach downwind!!!!  Please do not use the point and pray method to pick up the mooring.
4.    As the bow reaches the pick-up stick, you  must  have no way on.   Select a new mooring if approaching too fast.
5.    Grab the pick-up stick and secure the large mooring loop to the bow cleat.  Before leaving the boat, run the mooring line through the starboard bow chock.  The pick up stick should lie on deck between the shrouds on the starboard side.  Be sure to tie a cleat hitch over the loop on the bow cleat using the pick up stick line.  Lead weight should be close to cleat.
6.    Lower the mainsail quickly and roll or flake it.  If flaking, flake approx. 8-10 inches on either side of the boom with the luff staying near the mast. Use sail ties on the leech as you go.
7.    Ease the outhaul (to minimize stretching), cover the mainsail and be sure to tuck dangling lines into sail.  
8.    Roll the jib using the boom as a support. Remove and coil the jib sheets and stow in the starboard lazarette.   Stow the jib on bunk in cabin.  Please do not fold the jib in half.
9.    Secure all lines neatly - halyards, sheets, vang, etc.
10.    To secure tiller, cleat mainsheet (not too tight!) and fasten to port stern cleat.  Leave slack between mainsheet cleat and stern cleat.  Throw a clove hitch around the tiller and run sheet forward and around the starboard cheek block (located amidships) and into cam cleat.  Coil and stow remaining line.  The boat should be SHIPSHAPE!
11.    REMOVE ALL GARBAGE and take it with you when the launch picks you up.
•    Please check out with the office and return lifejackets. Kindly report any problems, damage
or concerns to the office.

THANKS FOR SAILING AT THE WATERFRONT CENTER!!!