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 From: CnC-List <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> On Behalf Of Richard Bush via CnC-List Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 11:29 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Richard Bush <bushma...@aol.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List [EXTERNAL] Re: Log Canoe Race Photos 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 -----Original Message----- From: Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > To: 'cnc-list@cnc-list.com' <cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Cc: Della Barba, Joe <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov <mailto:joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov> > Sent: Tue, Jul 16, 2019 11:07 am Subject: Re: Stus-List [EXTERNAL] Re: Log Canoe Race Photos Best job on the boat! http://www.cryc.org/CRYCandCRYCCLogCanoeRaces/cryc_logcanoe_dsc_5940.html Joe From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Gary Nylander via CnC-List Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 10:50 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: Gary Nylander <gnylan...@atlanticbb.net <mailto:gnylan...@atlanticbb.net> > Subject: Re: Stus-List [EXTERNAL] Re: Log Canoe Race Photos 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 From: Richard Bush [mailto:bushma...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 10:05 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: Della Barba, Joe <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov <mailto:joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stus-List Log Canoe Race Photos 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 -----Original Message----- From: Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > To: 'cnc-list@cnc-list.com' <cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Cc: Della Barba, Joe <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov <mailto:joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov> > Sent: Tue, Jul 16, 2019 8:55 am Subject: Stus-List Log Canoe Race Photos 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 _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. 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