Hi,
Just for the fun of it, I entered the text of your email into ChatGPT4.
You:
I have a set of polars for my C 34+ (below), but I am unsure of how to
interpret the downwind data. There is no information I have found on how the
angles were determined. I am interested in best angles for
Actually, 3 miles might be a bit short. Excuse the tech analysis but if
one assumes you sail 0.5 miles from the rhumb line between the upwind and
downwind marks and the arbitrary waypoint is only 3 miles away, then 0.5/3
is 0.1667 the sine of which equates to an angle of about 9.5 degrees. That
Purely arbitrary. 3-5 miles would probably work.
--
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 4:33 PM Matthew Wolford via CnC-List <
cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Dennis. How did you arrive at 10 miles.
Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 5, 2024, at 5:31 PM,
Thanks, Dennis. How did you arrive at 10 miles.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 5, 2024, at 5:31 PM, Dennis C. via CnC-List
> wrote:
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>
> Personally, I think sailing to polars can be challenging. I prefer to use
> VMG. VMG rules for windward/leeward race courses! Bear with me on this.
>
Personally, I think sailing to polars can be challenging. I prefer to
use VMG. VMG rules for windward/leeward race courses! Bear with me on
this.
First, a couple of definitions used by Touche's Nexus instrument system.
Velocity - speed and course
VMG - velocity made good wind based. The
On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 2:44 PM Bill Coleman wrote:
> I anguish over this nearly every race, and one thing I can tell you is
> that whichever choice you decide, you will wish you did the other!
>
> Bill Coleman
> Erie, PA
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> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 1:48 PM David Knecht via CnC-List <
>
Mike, I have 37 and I share your pain in getting to the stuffing box area; I
went with the PYI and have been happy with it; there are other brands which
seem to do well also; I just didn't want to crawl down in there on a frequent
basis, and bit the bullet on the new shaft...; best of luck with
I have a C 41 for sale, 6'06" draft
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 5:47 PM david coleman via CnC-List <
cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
> Let me know if you would be interested in c 43 landfallsw florida.draft
> 5.5.
> David
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> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 4:51 PM sail51--- via CnC-List
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I
David Thanks for the note .. Made me realize my note was missing the second digit of the number, C 41, … which is the model I’m interested in, but appreciate your offer Thanks Bud From: david coleman via CnC-List Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 5:46 PMTo: Stus-List Cc: david coleman Subject:
