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Good evening to all. Tonight I will not explain a topic to know in order to achieve the committee boat license, but I showed a video to show you what it means to go on a sailing boat. In addition to writing this blog post of topics mainly theoretical, I would publish at least once a week, a few short stories of lived experience, with the intent to explain to non sailors some theoretical and practical knowledge essential to be able to go boating sailing and at the same time, to get closer to the memories and emotions of the sailor who is long overdue.

My little sailing experience is mainly based small boats sailing dinghies calls. There are many types of drift: laser, 4.20, 4.70, 49er, Rs etc. ..

There are essentially two types of vessels sailing in a boat: the cruisers and dinghies. Distinguished from the drift boat keel for two main reasons: the drifts have the keel and their size is small, it can be up to five meters away, keel boats, or boats with a keel weighted (or bulb), commonly called cabs are larger, from six feet up, and just have a fixed keel.

Typically the crew on the drift is reduced because of limited space that there is available, and is generally composed of two, rarely three, and sometimes even one person.

The derivation of the crew is very important, as well as in a cab. Since these boats very light, about 100kg, the crews must be very close-knit, does not take much to capsize (a term that indicates when the boat capsizes and goes in the water), an imbalance of weight, not having anticipated a gust of wind or just be awkward. There is nothing wrong with capsizing, indeed, sometimes very funny, and others is inevitable because of strong winds, but we will speak in a scuff another post.

Now I leave you with a video, I hope that what excites me emotions. Look at this video, found on YouTube , reminds me that every time I feel the adrenaline going sailboat. In my opinion drifts are much more exciting of the cabs, because the relationship you have with the boat is much more physical and intimate:

-more physical as the crew, the crew, who are essentially forward and adjust the jib, and beyond, and the helmsman, who drives the boat, with their weights to try to keep the boat flat so that this Scuffi;

-plus intimate, not just for the fact that you are stuck with their team mate side by side, but also because there is sailing, the wind, the boat and then you're there, four key components related to one 's more. The actions that we do have a lot less mechanical than the cruisers, for obvious reasons: because the boats are smaller and also sails, so you do not need gear ratios of force to adjust the sails or sail the craft.

Maybe when I'll try the same adrenaline on a cruiser change my mind, but for now I find that the emotions you feel on a drift, not try anywhere else.

Fair winds to all!

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FOLLOWS THE MARINE ENGINE

order to exit and enter the port can not use the sails, because it would be a bit 'dangerous, for obvious reason that I am not here to enumerate. So we need the classic engine. This part may seem less interesting than those that follow. Certainly the engine fans already know everything and will be facilitated to understand and study this part.

The engine is used for sailing boats used in addition to the maneuvers of exit and entry into port, even as an auxiliary engine for any case during our navigation.

How are these engines? Marine engines are either endothermic, that is, internal combustion engines. There are four phases: intake, compression, combustion or expansion, exhaust.

motors can be divided in cycles of phases:

four times: the cycle is complete with two movements complete and return the four phases are separated from one another.

2 times: a complete movement and return, the phases overlap each other.

addition the engine can have two types of fuel.

Gasoline: Gasoline is the fuel used. During the intake stroke is fed into the combustion chamber, a mixture of air and fuel. The power stroke is caused by the spark of the candle.

Advantages:
- more power at the same weight and dimensions;
- absolute dependence on an electrical installation;
- refined fuel, and cleaner, not a problem of filter clogging.

Disadvantages:
- absolute dependence on an electrical installation;
- high combustibility
for the type of fuel - fuel that produces volatile highly flammable vapors.

Diesel: Diesel fuel types used. During the intake stroke only air is immense in the combustion chamber. The power stroke takes place by injecting fuel into the combustion chamber that ignites on contact with air and high temperature.

Advantages:
- higher yield;
- cheaper fuel;
- independently from an electrical system;
- low combustibility for the type of fuel;
- safer fuel does not produce volatile highly flammable vapors.

Disadvantages:
- less refined fuel, clogging filters.

addition to this major difference, the motor may differ by location and transmission. Inboard
: Engine and transmission inside the boat.
Outboard: Engine and transmission to the outside of the boat.
Enfrofuoribordo: Engine and transmission within and outside the boat.

addition, the engine must be cooled, if not get warm. They are used two ways: the direct and indirect.

Open = Direct . The pump of the fishing sea water and sends it directly to cool the engine parts concerned and is expelled from the tailpipe, the engine used less power.

Advantages:
- lighter;
- less mechanisms, and therefore more reliable.

Mixed = Indirect . The pump of the fishing sea water and sends it to cool water mild closed-circuit cooling. It is then expelled from the exhaust pipe cooling, in turn, is fresh water to cool parts of the world involved. The temperature is maintained at optimum levels by the thermostatic valve which excludes the heat exchanger when the temperature is still low, and alerts when the temperature is too high. Used engine more power.

Advantages:
- smaller scale in the cooled parts.
- best performance at the start and at lower temperatures.

The direct cooling system is most commonly used, although the technology and typology of the new engines are moving towards the realization of the indirect.

Fair winds to all!

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OUR MOTOR

As we all know the real engine of our boat are sailing the sails. There are essentially two types of boats: the mainsail and jib, but the vessel can be equipped with both spinnaker and spinnaker sails to a navigation expert.

on all sailboats will find the first two sails available. Explain how the sails should be adjusted on a blog is impossible, for obvious reasons: you must be at sea to learn how to adjust the sails, and there are no fixed rules. A very general rule is that the sails must fuck [Pull in: it is a nautical term that means to Tighten a sail through the appropriate sheet of the mainsail or jib, in this case. The sheets are the ropes that allow us to adjust the sails] when we close-hauled or large, or gaits that allow us to tighten the wind, and let [Leave: remove the tension on the sail, a sail to swell] when we move away wind, sideways, loose, loose large, and stern, especially gait. These rules apply to the sails as the mainsail and jib, but the spinnaker and the spinnaker, there are different settings.

upwind is to go with the bow of the boat (front boat) near the corner dead. The dead angle is an angle of about 90 ° that we spend just to change tack in our sails, and direction. If you accidentally end up in this corner, we are against the wind, our sails and begin to bring more fileggiare and not because the wind is no longer used as a laminar flow to drive the boat.

Other nautical terms to know:
starboard = Right;
Left = Left;
Bow = Front of the boat;
Poppa = bottom of the boat;
luff = upwind, approach corner dead
Place = Move away from the corner dead
= Change Tack Tack;
= remove wind into the sails furled, lower the sails;
= Hoist the sails to the wind, raise sails.

Fair winds to all!