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From: "Ron Radko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> BTW Mike, sailing the jib only is actually pretty reasonable in heavy air.
> The boat sails pretty nicely. ...
We had the helm down pretty much all the way most of the time. As long as
we kept the speed up, it was working. But if we got slowed down, then we
had to fall off to accelerate back to where we had enough steerage.
When towing under bare poles, we could not get the bows into the wind and
waves. Best we could do was about 45 degrees to the wind, just like beating
with the jib - the helm was full down. We even tried having our tow drive
to leeward to help steer the stern around, but that didn't do it, either.
As we came up more into the wind, the tow line slackened and we couldn't
make it. Moving weight forward and to windward helped, but not enough. It
was after we had to wear about again on to the shoreward tack that the
larger mono came over to help out.
Had we put the jib out, I'm not sure the extra speed would have balanced out
the extra pressure from the jib. I suppose that if the motor could have
essentially taken the drag of the tow, we could have sailed the tri on the
jib. But I doubt it would have been at the 7 - 8 kt we were sailing when
free with jib alone, so I don't know if we would have had the steerage under
those conditions.
You may have felt you were getting most of your power from the jib with the
main boarded out, but at least the main was balancing the boat. I was
surprised, too, to see how close we seemed to be to the other boats rounding
the windward mark, and almost suggested putting up the main again. But I
didn't know about the lost battens, so it was a good call on Jim's part.
Cheers,
Tom Speer
F-24 MkI Ama Deus
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http://www.tspeer.com
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