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2far2drive
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Initially Posted - 01/13/2008 : 21:58:05

Well, I had a blast this weekend! I went out and we raced my buddy in a 75ish Morgan 25 all day and I have to say, we hung the whole time! I did pass him and totally stole his wind on a starboard tack, passed right by about 15ft apart and just took him and blasted past. I was pretty impressed but I couldnt hang well on port tack and usually fell back. We had a great weekend of sailing out there and I saw a couple of C25s.

Sunday (today) was decent in the beginning and then pretty much everyone was becalmed out in the bay. So we commenced to partying a little and I did notice one thing. Man, other people out there can be kinda stuck up a little or something. We called out on the radio a few times looking for some people to tie up with and hang out and we couldnt even muster a response while 10 before, we listened to all the boaters fighting someone on the radio in a vessel named seashell or some crap. Blah whatever. We had a blast out there anyways. Saw several C25s, if it was only on here, Im the white one, unnamed, logos kinda falling off the main. Yup, my insignia is coming off and well, I dont care too much.

One thing I noticed this weekend that made me really nervous was that on a hard port tack, I looked up and saw my lower shrouds just swinging around in the wind!!! I know they loosen up, physics tells me that, but swinging around in the wind, totally slack??? Thats not, correct is it? The upper was holding strong but the lowers, well, not so much. Im thinking I really need to tune my rig. Probably has a lot to do with me not hanging on a port tack. i did hang and slowly pull ahead on a beneteau 40 something. Probly wasnt pushing too hard right?? hahah

What a great weekend. Cant wait for it to get a tad warmer. Cmon Kemah C25 guys, lets have a meet up next weekend or so.

David
83 SR/FK #3341
Kemah Texas

Edited by - 2far2drive on 01/13/2008 22:03:07

GaryB
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Response Posted - 01/13/2008 : 22:24:56

Hey David,

I was out yesterday and had a blast too. I tried to hail you several times on Channel 16 but never got a response.

You're right about the attitude. I hailed my friends in the slip next to me and got them to answer. I asked them to go to 68 and apparently they didn't hear me the first time. I repeated and got blasted by some idiot telling me to go to another channel. Started to blast back and tell him that's what I was trying to do but decided to just blow him off. I noticed several other people got the same treatment.

GaryB
'89 SR/WK #5862 "LaFawnduh"
Kemah, TX

Edited by - GaryB on 01/13/2008 22:27:07

2far2drive
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Response Posted - 01/13/2008 : 22:47:48

Hey Gary,

Sorry about that. Half of the time I was on 68 with my friend and the other half well, I was dead serious on winning that race! I missed several hails from him as well.

Yea the attitude stinks what what can ya do right?

Ill try and be out there again next weekend as I have a 4 day weekend. Im a little nervous about my shrouds but Ill figure out something.

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 01/14/2008 : 09:13:43

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by 2far2drive
 Hey Gary,

Sorry about that. Half of the time I was on 68 with my friend and the other half well, I was dead serious on winning that race! I missed several hails from him as well.

Yea the attitude stinks what what can ya do right?

Ill try and be out there again next weekend as I have a 4 day weekend. Im a little nervous about my shrouds but Ill figure out something.
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See the rigging guide in our tech tips. As for responding to someone looking to raft up... hell no. It is incredible how much damage an unknown can do when allowed to come along side and tie up. It is far less risky when becalmed but still you get you get people who do not know your comfort zone. I had a dear friend who had some jet ski buddies on board her boat, they were anchored and swimming and such. She radioed me to sail over and raft up, when I got there and saw that everyone was wet and being very physical, I bore off and sailed away, hey I have carpet! I did not want wet people on my boat!

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2far2drive
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Response Posted - 01/14/2008 : 09:30:39

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Frank Hopper

See the rigging guide in our tech tips. As for responding to someone looking to raft up... hell no. It is incredible how much damage an unknown can do when allowed to come along side and tie up. It is far less risky when becalmed but still you get you get people who do not know your comfort zone. I had a dear friend who had some jet ski buddies on board her boat, they were anchored and swimming and such. She radioed me to sail over and raft up, when I got there and saw that everyone was wet and being very physical, I bore off and sailed away, hey I have carpet! I did not want wet people on my boat!

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Yea, I can understand that. It was kind of stupid I guess.

Just wanted some other sailors to talk to on a windless day. Im getting tired of the "marina" guys. Nothing but drunks with boats that never leave the slips, for the most part anyways. Yea Ill check the rigging guide, thanks again Frank.

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 01/14/2008 : 10:55:36

We tried to race on Saturday on Canyon Lake (Winter Series). The wind started at 12k and by the time we were on the first beat it was blowing 25k with gusts in the low 30's. While trying to reef the new main we got a slug stuck and suddenly were in survival mode with the main bagged out and the wind even higher. Finally got the main down, dropped the jib and retired.
Motoring back to our marina the wind was straight down the lake, giving it about a 6 mile stretch. With 90% throttle we were making
2-3k into 3' swells and were glad of an extra long shaft motor.
Only 4 boats finished out of the 15 who started and the RC cancelled the 2nd race.
Next Saturday is our Frostbite Regatta - I hope we still have usable sails!

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 01/14/2008 : 12:12:29

Do you think you put the slug in upside down? It is easy to do especially on a new sail.

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 01/14/2008 : 13:57:49

No Frank. They are larger than standard and I cannot get the mast gates ground down far enough to enable them to slide through easily, so any pressure on them (like if we are not head to wind) tends to hang them up - and in 30k wind there was a lot of pressure!!

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 01/16/2008 : 15:25:56

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Do you think you put the slug in upside down? It is easy to do especially on a new sail.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Uuuuhhh....there's an upside and a downside on a sail slug?!?

this is the kind I bought last spring, to replace my old all-plastic ones.

sorry for the hijack 2far - I enjoy rafting up in no-wind situations - I've made some great friends that way.

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 01/16/2008 : 17:21:49

They indeed are symmetrical, but it is relatively easy to twist one when reeving the sail and thus put it in "upside down".

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 01/16/2008 : 20:06:40

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Yeah, but what happened after he pulled his anchor back aboard?

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