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| Delta Ditch Run at Stockton Sailing Club/Richmond Yacht Club | June 2 |
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| Norcalsailing report featuring Summer Palace:
http://www.norcalsailing.com/entries/2012/06/05/ditchrun2.html#.T-iWoI2Mfqs Below quoted from Pressure Drop: Drew Scott was helming a F-28. "My crew is starting to swing around to pick me up when El Raton, in perfect control slides up beside me and asks if I would like to get picked up. They had already doused their chute and stopped beside me. I took their offer and got back into a boat (trying to stop a lightweight trimaran next to someone when it is blowing in the mid-20s is not easy so I figured I would not turn down El Raton. My crew ably finished the race on Papillon, only one boat behind El Raton! And I had many adventures with El Raton, but that is their story to tell. So, a great big thank you to the Ray Lotto and the crew of El Raton for pulling my soggy hide out of Suisun Bay!! Drew Scott Papillon (most of the time)" |
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| Author: Greg Hanket Subject: Beam reaching Info: (11662 views) Posted: Monday 8-25-08 08:43:58 AM |
I'm curious what the general thinking is regarding beam reaching. How high should the boat be pointed while flying the spinnaker before going back to the #1 - and which spinnaker (masthead or frac) for that matter?
I'm asking because we lost some serious distance on a beam reach during a recent PHRF race - and I don't know if it was due to us being on the wrong side of the course from when the wind filled in, current, or having the masthead spin flying (it came with the boat in 2003, and though this is the first season I've really used it, I can't tell if it's a little bulgy or not.) The rest of the fleet (including a couple of J27s) were to 15-20 boatlengths to windward of us with significantly better boat speed. Our speed improved when we put the #1 back up about halfway through the leg (I didn't try to carry the masthead above 90deg), but this may have just been the filling wind finally reaching us. What's the general thinking?
Thanks, Greg Hanket #44 rhumbnutz Havre de Grace, MD
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