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hewebb
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Initially Posted - 08/24/2014 :  04:25:05  Show Profile
Yesterday I moved my boat into a slip at Joe Poole Lake. After getting everything rigged decided t go for a quick sail to see some of the lake. There was another sail boat out there on approximately the same heading so, you guessed it, a race. I could not keep up with him and also he was pointing a degree or two better. Came back to the slip and learned that I was trying to run with a J24. Twas a good sail anyway.
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islander
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Response Posted - 08/24/2014 :  05:56:07  Show Profile
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learned that I was trying to run with a J24.

Been there, Done that with the same results. I have quit a few J Boats in my area with a dealership not far away. It's fun to try and stay up with them. I really feel like a slug when the larger J's with their million dollar sails go by me coming back from one of the races across the Sound with only the main up.
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shnool
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Response Posted - 08/24/2014 :  07:00:39  Show Profile  Visit shnool's Homepage
Buy a Capri 25 and pass his keester.
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 08/24/2014 :  08:16:12  Show Profile
I hated going out on a windless Sunday as the local club Sonar fleet headed out to the racecourse, passing me as if they had 20 hp engines running.

But one breathless day, we were sailing parallel to a 60+' Swan, and steadily if slowly passing him. The uniformed crew obviously became somewhat agitated, and was playing with the trim, occasionally glancing over at us. Revenge of the snails! (I suspect our advantage was that we could heel the little C-25 just enough to help shape the sails in the <5 kt. air.)
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GaryB
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Response Posted - 08/24/2014 :  10:18:15  Show Profile
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Originally posted by Stinkpotter

I hated going out on a windless Sunday as the local club Sonar fleet headed out to the racecourse, passing me as if they had 20 hp engines running.

But one breathless day, we were sailing parallel to a 60+' Swan, and steadily if slowly passing him. The uniformed crew obviously became somewhat agitated, and was playing with the trim, occasionally glancing over at us. Revenge of the snails! (I suspect our advantage was that we could heel the little C-25 just enough to help shape the sails in the <5 kt. air.)


I'll never experience the Sonar fleet passing me in those conditions. I won't even drive down to the boat if there is less than 7 or 8 knots. At least not in the summertime.

There's a guy with a webcam and weather station on the shore of Galveston Bay about 2 miles North of where I keep my boat. At 8 am this morning it was already 84 degrees with humidity above 80% and it it was dead calm. I clicked the house A/C down another notch and went back to sleep!
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