[Rhodes22-list] R22 Labor Day weekend sailing photos from Lake Manawa

[Jesse Shumaker]

Alex, now that you mention it, I think you're right that my genoa appears
to be cut a bit higher when I compare it to what I see in photos of other
R22s.  This is the 130% that came with the boat.  The PBO had replaced the
175% with this sail.  When I got the boat, the foresail had a greenish tint
presumably due to humidity at it's prior home in Florida.  Last winter I
sent it to Sail Care <https://sailcare.com/site/> for cleaning and it came
back looking great.  I've got the GB furler where you need to attach the
jib using a metal loop that screws into the furler.  This spring when
putting the foresail back on, I noticed that my sail must have come back
slightly smaller since the original attachment point at the bottom was now
too low to reach, so I had to attach it a few inches higher.  Apparently
something about the cleaning process made the sail shrink slightly.  I'm no
expert on sail trim / design and have not tried any other foresails on my
boat so I can't speak to relative performance.

Thanks to Mary for the explanation on boat capacities.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 6:35 PM S/V Lark <Colealexander at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting.   My Bucc has an aluminum CG approved plate riveted to the CB
> trunk  (now banged and worn to illegibility) stating a capacity of six
> people and 6? hp maximum outboard.   It’s physically possible to get that
> many people on her but I wouldn’t recommend it.   Six HP would be silly
> hanging off a 500# boat.     I wondered how Stan avoided having a similar
> fiction posted in the R-22.    Sailboatdata shows a first build date of
> 1968
> for both.
>
> Nice photos.    Your jib seems cut higher then mine, allowing more overlap
> for a similar sail area.    Have you flown other jibs to see if that
> creates
> a better slot with the main?
>
>
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