new to site

[payperboy]

hello everyone,
Just bought my 16 last week never sailed before. I always had a passion to and now i can. Have been searching for the right boat for over a year now i am sure this one is. Hope to learn a lot not only from the site but the sailors as well.

[jimyoung]

Welcome aboard!  I am sure that you will find that the guys (and gals!) here will be a treasure chest of knowledge and stories.  Read what you can, get whatever instruction that you can but mostly just get out on the boat and enjoy her!  You've chosen a well built and responsive boat, and it really only takes about an hour or two to learn to sail..... Then the rest of your life to learn to sail well.

Fair winds.

[Salty19]

Welcome, paperboy.

The CP16 is a great boat for the first timer as well as experienced captains.  She's safe and stable for her size and easy to learn the basics and beyond.

As Jim alludes to, most of us are still learning!  You'll pick up the basics quickly I suspect but it does take awhile to get really good at it.

Enjoy the new boat and take good care of her!

[newt]

Welcome aboard Payperboy.  Spring is the perfect time to go sailing!  I would take along a sailor, and that will shorten your learning curve by a bit....

[Bob23]

Payperboy:
   Always remember: Keep the mast pointing up... the rest is details! I have learned so much from the crew here at the site. It has truly enriched my sailing knowledge and I feel as if I'd made some great friends here. Welcome!
Bob23

[Craig Weis]

That's a great little boat. The 16 is.
~So any 'extra' gear stored on board out to go fwd. Don't need to drag transom.
~Most newbies tend to crab into the wind too much. Don't do that and stall fwd progress of the boat.
~Need some speed to come about.
~Get in the habit of speaking your maneuver. "Prepare to come about. Helms-a-lee." As the tiller is swung over. If your sailing with crew, "Prepare to come about", means for them to un cleat the head sheet and take up slack on the lee side.
~Let out the sheet for both the head sail and main sail one at a time till the trailing edge starts to 'flap'. Pull in till the flap goes away.
~To see what the sails are doing...Buy some of those red [port] and green [starboard] stick-onto-the sails tell tails and and space them in about a foot and up/down in three places vertically both fore and aft on the leading and trailing edges. The idea is to have those tell tails plastered against the sail and horizontal. That space of air between the main sail and head sail can be observed and toyed with till both sails are pulling well.

Welcome aboard payperboy. " had a passionto and " Just for fun you can go back to this first post and click on the 'Modify Message' box and put the space back in between passion and to. --->> had a passion to and <---kind of like that and then click 'save'. This is a very friend site for posting.

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[don l]

Welcome and fairwinds.  We sail a cp16,  this is our 3 year.  Welcome again!

cajun

[B.Hart]

  Welcome payperboy, the 16 is a forgiving boat,and will be patient with you. What area will you be sailing in?    HAPPY SAILING  BILL

[payperboy]

Thanks again for the welcoming.  Being in northern MN i plan on starting on some small lakes that does not allow motors then working my way up to some of the bigger lakes (Red Lake, leech lake, Cass lake). Then eventually try lake of the woods and finally lake superior.

[curtisv]

Payperboy:
   Always remember: Keep the mast pointing up... the rest is details! I have learned so much from the crew here at the site. It has truly enriched my sailing knowledge and I feel as if I'd made some great friends here. Welcome!
Bob23

Bob,

Great first rule of sailing.  It reminds me of the first rule of landscaping.  Green side up.

Curtis