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Michael Brown Windburn C&C 30-1 From: Randy Stafford <randal.staff...@icloud.com> To: cnc-list <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Sent: 6/27/2019 10:16 AM Subject: Stus-List Survey About Racing Hello Listers, I’d like to conduct a little survey about racing, tapping into the broad experience, geography, and boat diversity represented on this list. What prompted this is a discussion in my club about ratings, which expanded into a discussion about courses, tactics, and relative performance. I’d like to get perspective from the collective knowledge on this list, to add into that discussion. So here are some fairly objective survey questions, for those of you who race your boats: 1. Where do you race? Lake Ontario 2. What wind conditions are the rule and exception there? 6 - 14 knots in the spring. Lots of light or dead air in the summer. Frequent storms, squalls may hit 40 - 60 knots briefly. When the lake is cold there can be wind shear. 3. What kind of courses do you sail? W/L club races and at regattas, short ( < 20 nm ) medium ( < 100 nm ) and one long ( Lake Ontario 300 ) course race, 4. What sail plan do you fly? Mainly flying sail. 195% spinnakers both asymm and symm from a pole. 5. What model of boat are you racing? C&C 30-1 < 506 6. What PHRF rating do you race with? (please list adjustments) PHRF-LO FS: 175 NFS: 199 credit of 4 sec/mile for the main, -3 sec/mile penalty for 195% spin. Note that PHRF-LO adjusts based on main sail area but calculates the standard area using a default with lots of roach. My main does touch the backstay, lightly hangs up on tacks. 7. What is your boat’s fastest point of sail? Surfing under spinnaker. The C&C 30-1 is difficult to get over hull speed so even reaching at 30+ knots doesn't get close to planning ;-) 8. Is there leapfrogging in your races, or do boat-for-boat positions stay fairly constant? Some of the division have a wide rating spread, the fast boats pull ahead and stay there. With light summer wind and the random wind hole lead reversals are common. 9. How many boats are you usually competing against? As little as 4, as much as 11. 10. In general, how well do you perform in racing results? Windburn even for a C&C 30-1 is heavy. We are disadvantaged in light air, do well in heavy air. As a guess 75% of the time we are in the top 3. On our best days we have taken first at the Youngstown Levels, Lake Ontario 300 and LOSHRS races. And now a few more subjective questions: 11. Do you think your boat’s rating assumes you’ll race it on a particular kind of course with a particular sail plan? PHRF-LO states that the rating is suitable ( paraphrasing it here ) for windward leeward course of one mile legs in winds of 4 to 18 knots. No data from triangular or course racing is analyzed for rating reviews. 12. How do you think your local rating authority determines the rating for your boat? Initially a new boat ( class ) goes through an assessment at a handicapper's district meeting. We discuss everything including US PHRF data, sister classes and comparable. We make a best estimate then the rating is adjusted by -6 sec/mile "Protect The Fleet" for the first year until race data is available. 13. What do you think are the most important factors in your performance against your competition? Making the best of a heavy C&C 30-1. Recently the addition of North Sails 3Di 155% raw genoa and main has helped a lot in the light wind. 14. What do you think are the most important race tactics for beating your competition? Calling lay lines, watching for shifts, avoiding wind holes Thank you very much in advance for your responses to this survey. Best Regards, Randy Stafford S/V Grenadine C&C 30-1 #7 Ken Caryl, CO
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