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shnool
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Initially Posted - 07/07/2014 :  12:09:12  Show Profile  Visit shnool's Homepage
You know things are all a matter of perspective. Ran into a motor-boater as I was leaving Sunday 7/6 from 9 straight hours of sailing... I asked how his "holiday" was. He said, "It was OK, a bit too windy, and cool though." His response was "how was yours?" I said, probably the 2 best sailing days of the year. Winds were consistently over 15mph, and gusts were reaching 30 at times. White-caps most of the time. Rarely did the overworked knotmeter drop below 6 knots, and when it did it was only because it had pulled out of the water!

Here I am in a shadow, only doing 6 knots.. just off wind...


Then here we are just hitting a small puff... Right around the point to starboard, the wind is cooking through the slot, so this was our warmup... that puff was about spreader height, hadn't really hit the water at all... Of note, that picture was taken from a sailboat about the same distance away from me as I was from the other skipper to my starboard... great fun! This was one of very few moments where I was behind the S2.



By the way, I am quite sure I had too much rake before... I tightened the forestay, and loosened the backstay in tandem, and effectively went from 15ish inches of rake to what looks like 8ish. Now the boat bites and steers quite easily right up until I hit about 25 degrees of heel, at about 30 she rounds right up. I'm finding it easier to keep the boat in the groove now, even in a chop. I also loosened forward lowers a decent amount, and have just enough aft lowers to keep pre-bend at 1 inch... if I am looking at it correctly, the forwards should prevent inversion, and I should have between 3 and 5 inches of "bend" I can do. I hope that is all right... I also noted that the stick wasn't straight up, so I fixed that too.
Edited by - shnool on 07/07/2014 12:20:59
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