[Rhodes22-list] UPS Sail... Everything I had hoped for and more!

[KUHN, LELAND]

Rick,

Thanks!  Good advice considering I'm also cheap, lazy, and rarely sail
downwind.

Yesterday I wasn't able to sail downwind at all on a 4-hour sail.  Most
of the time I had the centerboard down with the Genoa sheets ran across
the deck.  My speed averaged better than 3 knots and it looked like I
was at least 60 degrees into the wind, yet I still ended up downwind of
the marina entrance.  The waves weren't huge but coupled with the strong
current I had zero velocity-made-good.

I can certainly understand why cruisers are motoring so much.

Lee
1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
Kent Island, MD



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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] UPS Sail... Everything I had hoped for and
more!

Lee,

Well, you're hearing from me.  Mainly because I'm cheap and lazy.

The UPS is probably the easiest asymmetrical to deploy, but it is still
something extra to do.  I haven't found it any easier or faster than my
175
genny.

Except sailing on a full downwind run with the UPS paired wing-on-wing
with
the genny (forget the main).  Then you can go at wind speed until it
exceeds
hull speed.

Given the infrequency of down wind runs during my usual day sails, I
wish I
spent my $1000 on something more useful.

Rick

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:45 AM, KUHN, LELAND <LKUHN at cnmc.org> wrote:

> dc,
>
> I'm jealous!  I haven't heard from anyone who's regretted getting a
UPS.
>
> Good luck with the race.  My boat doesn't go hull speed most of the
time
> and when it does I think it's more luck than skill.  Wind was perfect
today
> and I couldn't get out.  I can go sailing tomorrow afternoon with a
wind
> prediction of 1 mph.  Guess I could hit hull speed with the old iron
genny.
>
> Lee
> 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
> Kent Island, MD
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org on behalf of David Culp
> Sent: Sun 5/16/2010 12:21 AM
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] UPS Sail... Everything I had hoped for and
more!
>
>
>
> I am updating our group about my new UPS sail that I have installed
> this season as I said I would.  Today was one of those days where the
> wind is 10 knots and then it's 5.... Up and down, up and down.  Nary a
> problem-I was leaving a wake going down the lake most of the way.  And
> it is fun too, because you can play it like a spinnaker if you want
> to.  Sailing is always fun, but it was extra fun today!  Racing
> tomorrow in light winds, should I tell them that it's an illegal sail?
>  Which reminds me... They are going to use Portsmouth handicapping and
> it doesn't specify the sail plan for our boat, so what is "illegal"?
> Our boat will go hull speed and that's it most of the time.  The skill
> is in getting it there.... Right?
>
> dc
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