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dmpilc
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Initially Posted - 02/13/2011 :  18:56:16  Show Profile
The weather held true today and we went racing. With our main in the shop, I sailed with 2 of our C-22 fleet members today, winds 15-18 gusting to 25 and temp in the upper 50's. I worked the main sheet. We sailed with full main and working jib, after taking down the 150 before leaving the dock. Glad we did as we almost suffered knockdowns twice. Good news is we crossed the line third and came in first on corrected time.
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1975 C-22 SK #5459 "Shadowfax" Fleet 52
PO of 1984 C-25 SK/TR #4142 "Recess"
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Response Posted - 02/14/2011 :  04:41:34  Show Profile
Good for you! I'm sure all our northern friends with cabin fever are just thrilled, but they forget it gets so hot and still in our summer that we end up with air conditioned cabin fever around July...
I was bummed I had to stay in and work on some wedding albums but I gotta finish them now or I'll be indoors when it really gets lovely outside.

Gotta tell ya, it looked like a perfect day outside, glad you were able to get out there and enjoy it.

Whoo Hooo... February in Dixie! Gotta love it.
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Response Posted - 02/14/2011 :  13:50:51  Show Profile
An interesting happened ysterday that I forgot to add above. I had mentioned on another thread that I might try to hoist my Rolly Tasker C-22 cruising sail on our C-25 and use it like a reefed main. I did try to do that, but it turned out that the posts on the slugs of the C-22 main were just barely too thick to work in the track of the C-25 mast (all plastic slugs sewn on, not shackled). Boy was that a surprise! I put 2 of them in the groove, but they were just large enough to bind. I've flown this sail on the C-22 with no problems. It never would have occurred to me that the groove opening might differ among mast extrusions.
That's why I sailed on a friend's C-22 yesterday. Actually, it took 3 to handle that boat yesterday so it's just as well that I crewed with them.
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Response Posted - 02/16/2011 :  04:50:23  Show Profile
Thanks for that info. I've thought about using a smaller main, ( blustery on Lake Lanier ) and that would have been an option, as so many are around. Would probably been a sudden awakening to me.

I'd still like to buy a smaller main, but then that comes after a few hundred other projects....( and Sailing!)
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Response Posted - 02/16/2011 :  16:09:42  Show Profile
I decided to take the sail slugs(slides) off of the C-22 main so I can use it on the C-25. Turned out only the top one at the headboard was attached with sewn on webbing, had to cut it off. All of the others were attached with plastic shackles, which popped open easily with a screwdriver. I'm keeping the shackles/slugs in case I ever need to replace one on the C-25 main.
The two mains have almost identical foot lengths, but the C-22 main has a luff of 21', considerably shorter than the tall rig's 27.6', but not so bad compared to the std rig's 24.6' The sail area lost will be mostly in the upper half of the leech. If you draw out overlapping triangles, you'll see that the lost sail area will be mostly in the roach along the upper half of the leech.
I'll try it out tomorrow, supposed to be cloudy and up to 60 in the afternoon.

EDIT: BTW, last Sunday we hit 8 kts on the speedo several times on the C-22, reaching using main and a poled out working jib! I didn't know it would sail that fast.
Edited by - dmpilc on 02/19/2011 08:17:12
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