Actually it is Main Trimmer. The three sails on a canoe are the jib, fore, and 
main, with the largest being the fore. You will also see a ‘kite’ which is 
launched off the top of the foremast and a staysail which is flown like a 
mizzen staysail on a yawl.

 

And, you’re right. Light weight is important. And most often, she sits on the 
stern pulpit, goes out there before the race starts and stays. You may notice 
on some of Joe’s pictures that there are some small boats where the main is 
trimmed by somebody more forward through a block at the aft end of the pulpit. 

The boat I was on used to squat badly and often she got a bath – when the water 
was cool, she wore foul weather bib overalls and taped the bib legs around her 
ankles to avoid getting a bath.

The races are usually about 2 hours long – they race at about 10 am to noon, go 
in for lunch, then go back out around 2. Two races on Saturday and one on 
Sunday is the norm. Almost every boat has a tender – you saw Midnight Lace 
which tows one of the North family boats ( #9 or 15 or 4) out and back (that 
was the black boat with the little sitting area in the bow). They have two 
other smaller boats for the others. 

 

And, each boat has a log bottom, even the newly built ones – CBMM built a small 
one a couple years ago and is finishing a 5 log one right now. It is about 33’ 
or so long, not counting the bowsprit (with the jib extending forward of that) 
and the pulpit. 

 

If anyone is interested, there’s a great book by John North II called 
Tradition, Speed and Grace which documents the boats, the history and has an 
impressive selection of pictures and prints of paintings of the canoes.  John’s 
family has been involved with canoes for about 80 years, and he is still the 
skipper of Island Bird – he’s in his ‘80’s.

 

Gary Nylander

 

 

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Looks to be the safest too!   What is the name for this person's job...Mizzen 
Trimmer?  I notice that most of the boats delegate this to a lighter type 
person, usually female...how does she get out there and does she stay there all 
day?

 

Richard

s/v Bushmark4: 1985 C&C 37 CB; Ohio River,Mile 584.4

Richard N. Bush 

2950 Breckenridge Lane, Suite Nine 

Louisville, Kentucky 40220-1462 

502-584-7255

 

 

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Best job on the boat!

http://www.cryc.org/CRYCandCRYCCLogCanoeRaces/cryc_logcanoe_dsc_5940.html

 

Joe

 

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Most of the canoes still have most of their wood in the hulls, some have been 
sheathed in fiberglass, but they still flex. (there is often a bailer person 
keeping them dry). The one I was on leaked between some of the logs. Very high 
maintenance.

They have a handicap system, which uses the length, width at certain points, 
and so forth. Sail area is not counted, that is up to the braveness of the 
owner and crew. 

The number 9 boat in Joe’s pictures is a steady winner – the family which owns 
it has two others as well. There is no way they are casual – as there is only a 
centerboard (about 8 feet deep, pivoting, with a cord of two feet or so – no 
ballast in them), the hiking boards as shown (usually more of them – from two 
to four) are the ballast with crew scrambling out to steady the boats and then 
scrambling down, taking the boards out from under the gunwale and sliding them 
to the other side when they change course.

 

Most of them are not steady enough to stay upright when the masts are up 
(spruce, hollow, works of art) without having the boards laying across them. 
The masts are raised by hand – generally about a dozen people hauling them up – 
pivoting on the mast step. They are tender and fast! When they tip over, they 
must be disassembled and taken to shore or a dock and then reassembled for the 
next race. 

 

Awesome to watch and exciting to race upon.

 

Gary

 

 

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Joe; fascinating photos...thank you ro sharing these; we certainly have nothing 
remotely close to that kind of racing around here...; are these boats used just 
for racing or are they used  for casual sailing etc.; They look to be high 
maintenance!  How are the races scored?  

 

Richard

s/v Bushmark4: 1985 C&C 37 CB: Ohio River, Mile 584.4

 

Richard N. Bush 

2950 Breckenridge Lane, Suite Nine 

Louisville, Kentucky 40220-1462 

502-584-7255

 

 

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http://www.cryc.org/CRYCandCRYCCLogCanoeRaces/index.html 
<https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=5e52ff46-02c4aee3-5e52d631-0cc47adc5e34-c43ca6458cf3b2d8&q=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cryc.org%2FCRYCandCRYCCLogCanoeRaces%2Findex.html>
 

 

OK this is the real link, no idea what happened to the last one???

 

10 hours is a very long day in a 13 foot Whaler, next time I am bringing better 
cushions!

Joe Della Barba

Coquina C&C 35 MK I

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