[Rhodes22-list] Close Haul Question

[Mary Lou Troy]

Lee,
Was that speed through the water or over ground (GPS). If you are 
taliking over ground, on the Chesapeake, it depends on whether the 
current is with you or against you. If you were out by the shipping 
channel, you were surely feeling the effects of the current. Did you 
go out Eastern Bay? If the tide was going out, I imagine there is 
quite a bot of current there as well. Do you have 3 sets of leads for 
the jib (cabintop, side deck and on the coaming tracks)?  If you were 
sheeted to the cabin top, it might be better to be sheeted to the 
side decks - the jib might have been pinched a bit if it was to the 
cabin top. Also we also don't point nearly as well with the 175 genoa 
reefed to 100 even with the sheets inside. No real advice - just a 
few thoughts.

Mary Lou
1991 R22  Fretless
Rock Hall, MD

At 09:09 AM 5/22/2007, you wrote:

>I typically sail on a beam to close reach for fun and so I end up back at the
>marina without having to motor.
>
>Yesterday I decided to do a destination sail.  There was a small craft
>advisory due to heavy chop, but winds were generally less than 15 knots.  I
>started with a full main and no genoa just to try it out.  I was on a run
>and immediately exceeded theoretical hull speed.  It was fun riding the
>waves but I certainly had to stay focused--a couple of times I let the chop
>hit me on the beam and I felt like the boat was going to roll over.  After
>about 30 minutes the chop died to about two foot waves and I enjoyed a fast
>broad reach for about an hour.  By this point I had reached the shipping
>channel in the middle of the Chesapeake, and decided it was time to turn
>back.  Since the last hour had mostly been a broad reach, I figured I could
>follow the same path home on a close reach.  The wind and waves got a little
>better, yet it still took me five hours of sailing and a half an hour of
>motoring to get back to the marina.  Part of the delay was experimenting
>with different adjustments and spending more time going fast than into the
>wind, but I still felt like I could have done something different to make
>better time.
>
>In about a 10 knot wind, full main, 10 to 15 degrees of heel, 120% genoa
>rigged to the outside, board up, boom and poptop up, close reach; I could
>steadily maintain 5 to 5.5 knots, even with a little chop.
>
>In about a 10 knot wind, full main, 10 to 15 degrees of heel, 100% genoa
>rigged between the mast and inner shroud, board down, boom and poptop down,
>traveler to windward, close haul; I could only do 1.5 to 2 knots.
>
>Question:  If your destination is into the wind, do you make better time
>going slow into the wind, or fast off the wind, or somewhere in between?  I
>assume the answer is slow into the wind with lots of tacks, but it just
>didn't feel that way.  Also, is there something I could have done to improve
>my speed into the wind?  Any advice is appreciated.
>
>Lee
>1986 Rhodes22  At Ease
>Crab Alley (Kent Island, MD)
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