Link Dump

Won't be much news around here for a couple days, so here are a couple links of interest to outrigger sailors.

• First, a document about how to handle the "Malibu Outrigger," a sailing outrigger one-design class.  Of particular note are the sections about safely launching and landing through the surf on a beach, which I've been wondering about.  This link comes to you courtesy of Tim Anderson, outrigger adventurer extraordinaire.
• And second, I've also been wondering how the heck one reefs a crab claw sail.  Well, according to this article on Proafile, one doesn't "reef" (i.e., reduce sail area) a crab claw.  But one can "de-power" it quite effectively by means of a line between the spars.  Scroll down to the section titled "Reefing" to read about it - though the rest of the page has some good info, too.