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Just purchased a beautiful 1976 Pintail 14

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On my centerboard daysailer (a Luger 16) the CB had several lead weights glued into it to keep it down. The rudder had some sort of spring that would hold it down. Small boats are often used in shallow places and locking the CB or rudder down could lead to losing either one if you strike bottom. At speed, my CB would begin to rise; I recall I used a bungee cord to keep it down. Ken

Great purchase! Have you found the SailMFG tribute site yet? It can be reached at SailMFG - Preserving the Legacy of SailMFG Sailboats It has lots of information about these sailboats, and some rigging information about the pintail. I used to own a Whip (sail # 33), and think SailMFG boats were really good quality and simple boats.

tighter traveler means the boom will be farther out laterally when you sheet in for close-hauled. Looser means the boom will be closer to the boat's centerline. In general, the former would be preferable in heavy air, the latter in light air. I suspect it was meant to be adjustable accordingly. Plus, your tiller's so high, you'll need some slack in the traveler just to have it pass over the tiller. And how loose you can have it is limited by the height of the boom (and traveler block). the traveler should draw tight before those two can touch and go "two-blocked".

arknoah- I did see that website, thanks. Unfortunately there's not too much info out there on the pintail! nolatom- Thanks for that explanation.

Who knew that I would be Loving a 1969 MFG sailboat?? Life is interesting, or, well...boating is. On my centerboard case there is no hole for locking. Mine just has the line that you must tie off on the side of the case. My maiden voyage on the boat was a 2 hour wonderfully surprising experience. My girlfriend even agreed to come with me! Wonderful steady breeze on the Hudson River out of Saugerties, NY. that was three days ago. So... yesterday, during my 2nd sail on her, there was a pretty serious wind out of the north west that was messing with me and keeping me on my toes. I was looking at the stays and thinking to myself that I might add a couple more .... to make sure this old boat could stand up to my kind of sailing. About 4 minutes after I went through that thought process about the stays, one snapped near the deck sending the whole shebang into the river, sails, mast, boom. As a big powerboat passed me by without so much as a wave I gathered up everything and under the power of the smallest electric trolling motor I could find for her I humbly and silently found my way back to my marina on the Esopus Creek. That was the first time this ever happened to me. Getting dismasted in the middle of the river in a raging wind. I'm glad I didn't notice the quickly approaching HUGE tug with barge until I was underway, because that would have made me really nervous! Pintail is a 14 ft. boat. To me it seems much bigger. I guess because of the width. p.s. Do adults really need to have a list of smiley(and vomiting!) icons to decorate their words??! Bizarre to me.

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Sailboat Guide

Pintail is a 14 ′ 0 ″ / 4.3 m monohull sailboat designed by F. S. Ford Jr. and built by MFG Boat Company starting in 1967.

Rig and Sails

Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.

The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
LOA: Length overall in feet
Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

Date introduced in dispute. The MFG brochures says ‘introduced in 1969’.

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