[Rhodes22-list] Sailing right angles

[Rick]

Curtis,

I have had the same experience racing with an IMF and diamond board model.
I'm pretty sure the -270 PHRF is for the hanked up main and centerboard
model.  My rankings only became decent when the RC subtracted another
minute; but still, the embarrassment remains of always arriving after the
keg is drained.

Mid-boom sheeting won't do you any good.  That is for a main with the foot
entirely attached to the boom.  Stan's bar between the back stays would
work better keeping the boom down and at the right angle.

If you can race with the spinnaker fleet wing-on-wing with an asymmetric
and genny, that could get you a first without the extreme handicap.  It
would be a $1000 pop to Doyle for an asymmetric called the UPS.

Rick

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Curtis Ruck via Rhodes22-list <
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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