{"id":1474,"date":"2015-11-23T11:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2015-11-23T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T19:48:04","slug":"know-your-knots-or-have-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/general\/know-your-knots-or-have-the-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Knots &#8211; or Have the App!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-By Tradewinds Member Tim G.<\/p>\n<p>Hey Matt<\/p>\n<p>Had a great day sailing on Wind Song on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Setting out from the dock, we knew we would be putting in the 2nd reef right away due to the projected gusty winds.<\/p>\n<p>As we reviewed the running rigging, the 2nd reef sheet was not fed through the clutch so we wouldn&#8217;t be able to secure it &#8211; the port winch would be taken by the mainsheet.<\/p>\n<p>We tried to fit the reef sheet through it\u2019s clutch, but it was too large to feed through so we found a thinner sheet and fed it forward though the clutch to a point forward on the cabin top.<\/p>\n<p>We reefed in the 2nd reef, and then secured the thinner sheet around the reef sheet with a rolling hitch (our memory refreshed via the ASA app on my iphone) and then tightened and clutched the thinner sheet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1475 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1.jpg\" alt=\"ASA APP\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/1-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1476 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1477\" src=\"https:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/3.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1478\" src=\"https:\/\/tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"300\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/4-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It worked like a charm and we had a blast sailing in 25+ gusts around the GG bridge and back thru the slot.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Tim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-By Tradewinds Member Tim G. Hey Matt Had a great day sailing on Wind Song on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Setting out from the dock, we knew we would be putting in the 2nd reef right away due to the projected gusty winds. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/general\/know-your-knots-or-have-the-app\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-skippers-tip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}