[Rhodes22-list] Sailing right angles

[Rick]

Christopher,

I expect your larger genny is blown out, your forestay is too loose for the
larger sail, your foot and leach lines aren't holding or your sheeting
angles to the car are off.  (As a rule of thumb, the sheet should bisect
the angle of the clew.)  Of course, the smaller sail will pull better at
higher wind speeds because you don't have to furl it as much.  But any
foresail, no matter how much it is furled, should not luff under 50 deg off
the true wind.

Rick

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Christopher Cowie <
ccowie at cowieassociates.com> wrote:

> I found the large Genoa would luff inside 110 degrees and I would lose 2
> knots if furled  with lines inside and the 130 points up to 90 with no loss
> of speed.
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> On Jun 6, 2016, at 6:55 PM, Curtis Ruck via Rhodes22-list <
> rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org<mailto:rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>> wrote:
>
> Rick,
>
> How do you perform in less than perfect conditions with your headsail?  I
> race weekly (for recreational, not competitive reasons, and come in last
> even with a ~270 PHRF).  In my typical air, I have 3-5 knots with 1/2 - 1
> knot current (Susquehanna River mouth).
>
> I single hand and at best I can get 110 tack angle with the 170.  It
> doesn't change any with rolling the head up some and running the jib sheets
> inside the outer shrouds.
>
> My current plan is to move from the rope traveler between the backstays to
> a rail behind the cabin (the rail was installed by a previous owner, but
> didn't provide the traveler system, of which mine just arrived in the
> mail).  And as soon as fiscally possible move to a 130.
>
> The only place I even get close to keeping up is downwind wing-on-wing
> legs, but the club doesn't race non-spin boats straight downwind so... I'm
> always well behind.  In the below race, I was lapped before I even made it
> around the northern mark.
>
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