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Arthur


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2011-07-06 20:29:07 - Re: Perf on Texel Race
Thnx for this reply Aaron. Let me explain that my crew and I are only fresh water sailors. The wind is not the problem, the waves in combination with the wind however... See the picture in my avatar, flat water, but over 22 kts of wind and we had fun! Even on a reach, for which the F18 cat was NOT designed.

After the decision to go out on Texel, we discovered that this years race would not bring us fun, so we headed back for the safe beach/bar. I would have done the race in any other monohull in these conditions and I am sure I would have fun.

Technical: we are overpowered when TWS > 16 kts, but we have some tricks to depower; Mastrake, spreaderrake, diamondtension, cunningham, mastrotation, daggerboards up, jib-angle, mainsailtraveller... In this way we "manage" to go to 22 kts, although the word survival comes into mind rather than catsailing. Let's see how we will perform next year on Texel ;-)

Cheers, Arthur
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2011-07-12 07:16:31 - Re: Perf on Texel Race
I'm not sure if you mean all those things (mast rake etc) are adjustable on the water - in my class we have the same adjustments except no mast rotation - and the only thing NOT adjustable while sailing is the angle and length of the spreaders - which imho is more than enough adjust-ability... SO much so it is often possible to de-tune the boat to go slower ;-)
Luckily we have 2 crew + skipper - the extra hands come in handy (pun intended!) when raking the mast back also requires a change in vang tension, shroud tension (main and lowers) etc etc - and the class association also wants to add adjustable trapeze points - like a 505 that can change the point of force applied by the trapeze lines on the mast - damn one more string to worry about!! - but it should make crosswind sailing (which is pretty darn fun in my class) even more fun in the breezier conditions - we already had a 40% increase in Spi area about 10 yrs ago - which oddly made it easier to handle! go figure...
But you are very correct in that 'survival-sailing' is not much fun really - whatever conditions are survival for you...
It is just a pity when they happen on a single day event such as this!
Not so bad for normal club sailing as there is always next Saturday!
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