[Rhodes22-list] Sailing right angles

[Richard Beytagh]

I you are looking to get a better shape to your main off the wind, Selden
make a reverse Vang called a Gnav. It works well on on the Rhodes, but is a
little expensive.



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Richard Beytagh
Phone: 828 337 0180

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Rick <sloopblueheron at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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