[Rhodes22-list] comfortable with wind

[Jay Friedland]

We were traveling at 4-5+ kts. (also, ML, meter was in kts.). This was on the bay with 2' rollers. The main on Rob's boat was vertical batten which helped, and using the outer track, no traveler adjustment this time. What I got was the ability to tack in extreme conditions, where I would always need to gather some speed previously and still wind up in irons much of the time.

Often going through a normal tack, I know Stan always say to let the sail follow the bow. Here, even if you delay the release of the jib a bit till the bow carries fully across the wind, it's been flawless. I just took my boat (without vertical batten and 155% genny) out this afternoon in the same or even higher winds with a major storm coming in. I tried it a half dozen times with no hitches.


Jay
s/v Wanderlust

On Sep 8, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Shawn Boles <shawn.sustain at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Thanks for the info!
> 
> Was your Genoa sheet in the outer track? Did you use the traveler?
> 
> The boat is indeed adjustable to  all reasonable conditions.  I used avoid
> 15+, days, but have found that with proper sail balance you can chug along
> like a sedate old lady. Of course if you want to sail harder that can be
> done as well...
> 
> Cheers,
> Shawn
> s/v Sweet Baboo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Robert O Baldi <rob.o.baldi at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> There has been discussion on the list about sailing on windy days. Jay
>> Friedland and I just came in after sailing in sustained wind of 23 to 28
>> mph wind. I know it was at least 28 because that was the highest speed my
>> handheld registered for the brief time I could try to check the wind. I
>> assume it was higher at some point, but when I held it up, the meter moved
>> between those numbers for maybe 20 to 30 seconds.
>> We had the boom at the low level. The Main reefed so that the 2's on the R
>> 22 were split with only one showing and about  1/3 of a 135 jib.  With the
>> weight of two people the boat handled fine. It was not a sail for the timid
>> or a novice. You have to be able to deal with all sorts of forces and
>> potentials for problems, so I repeat, this was not a sail for a beginner,
>> but it was a lot of fun and quite manageable. We kept remarking on how well
>> the boat is made. Because you can set the sails at any size you can balance
>> the boat in extreme conditions. At one point Jay let go of the tiller to
>> grab his hat and the boat just sailed on straight  with no hard rounding up
>> or any jerky motion.
>> Let's all tip our hats to Stan!
>> 
>> rob
>> Robert Baldi
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
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