[Rhodes22-list] highest comfortable wind speed

[Cary Tolbert]

Stan, thanks for chiming in. My vote would be for you to be more involved
with The List.
Two years ago I replaced my 175 with a new 130 from GB. Amazingly I pointed
better. This year I replaced the IMF and have amazed other sailors with how
fast I was sailing. So...... new sails from GB do make a difference.
I have learned, on my own, not to wear shoes when sailing. This keeps me
from standing on the lines in the cockpit.

Cary Tolbert
Radford, VA
s/v Whisper   86

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 6:07 PM Mark Olson <Mark-Olson at verizon.net> wrote:

> 9 stays also allow for this:
>
> I had a pin come out and one of forward stays while sailing in moderate
> winds last year.  My sailing companion went on a tack which took the
> stress
> off that side.  I grabbed another pin, put it in, retightened it and we
> sailed for a few more hours.
>
> Mark Olson
> Nyack New York
> s/v Satchmo - 1983
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Nyberg
> Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 5:51 PM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] highest comfortable wind speed
>
> Thanks for the reminders Stan.
>
> I can personally attest to Stan’s point about the 9 stays allowing the
> mast
> to remain vertical even in the event of a jib stay failure.  In my case,
> conditions were fairly moderate, and I reefed the IMF main as quickly as I
> could manage, and motored back to the marina, so I didn’t push things too
> hard.  But obviously, if the mast had come down, and inconvenience would
> have turned into a catastrophe.
>
> Here’s to a catastrophe avoided!
>
> Peter Nyberg
> Coventry, CT
> s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)
>
>
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