THE PHANTOM SAILOR'S PAGE

MY PHANTOM EXPERIENCES

August 12, 20002

With experience in 420's, Lasers, Sunfish, Capris, Sonars and Rhodes 19's, I feel that I know at least a little bit about sailboats. I have raced around the northeast and also enjoy cruising. The Phantom definitely suprised me. As I found out, the hull was very well made, the boat manuevered quite well for its size and was incredibly fast. The Phantom's speed is far superior to that of an ordinary Sunfish or for that matter, any lateen rigged boat. In conditions of any wind speeds greater then 5 knots, the boat planes. Furthermore, the phantom routinely breaks the ten knot mark as far as boat speed.        I also believe that the Phantom is overpowered. The sail area is just a little too big meaning, that it gets a little too much wind. However, this is by no means a bad thing and in fact it is what makes sailing the Phantom such a joy.        Enough of my stories though, I am sure that others have had good experiences on this performance board boat. Please send us all your Phantom tales and pics. Thanks again and enjoy the water!

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RIGGING GUIDE AND SAIL PLAN

Quite a few of you have asked for a rigging guide and a sail plan. So I got to work figuring out the steps involved in rigging and comissioned my friend to do some sketchs of the Phantom. You will find them displayed below. Please remember that the rigging guide is just based on my experiences and how I like to rig my boat. Feel free to change it as you like or even do another way!                         RIGGING GUIDE 1. Bring the Phantom down the water's edge or wherever it is to be launched from. Arrange the rudder, centerboard, sail and mast so that they are all ready to go. 2.With the sail fully unrolled and the gooseneck (metal ring), facing the starboard side, slide the mast through the gooseneck. Bring the mast to a point where it is possible to thread the main halyard and then thread the halyard. 3. Pull the halyard until the upper boom is against the mast. Now the hard part..... 4. while holding the main halyard, drop the mast into the mast step and carefully push it in until it hits the bottom of the hole. 5. Thread the main halyard throughthe block to the the right of the mast and then through the bloack in the spray guard. Tie it off in the cleat above the centerboard trunk. 6. Take the back end of the main sheet and tie it to the birdle with a bowlin knot. then take the front end and put it through the main sheet block. Tie an eight knot to make sure it doesn't slip through. 7. Push the boat into the water and drop the centerboard when you are in about 3 1/2 feet of water. 8. Put the tiller under the bridle and drop the rudder into place. Make sure to put the little pin through the upper pin of the rudder mount.                      You are now ready to sail!