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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: Vin McAteer ([email protected]) contact the author Subject: Express experiment.... Info: (16818 views) Posted: Thursday 9-27-01 12:30:00 PM |
Tried this on the boat yesterday: a crew member is a 49er sailor that just happened to have a kite that he did not want. Well, we tried it on the Express rig set up like a conventional chute....perfect fit. We did this in about 8-10kts of wind and found that the boat was much faster in the marginal chute angles or a #1. The sail is cut rather flat and is a little smaller than the conventionsl express 27 spin. I guess you could call it a code 0 flown off the pole....nice for a distance race maybe??
Regards,
Vin
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