Maybe the only reason you were passing them was the Dazy staysail slowed your rate of "negative VMG" (drift backwards owing to current).
Martin ________________________________ From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Burton Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:48 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Handicap review I remember more than one Swiftsure when the conditions were too light for the drifter so we shifted to the Dazy staysail and started passing boats. Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Martin DeYoung <mdeyo...@deyoungmfg.com<mailto:mdeyo...@deyoungmfg.com>> wrote: I fondly recall sitting to leeward holding the drifter's clew by hand while going backwards in the current. Sometimes this was in the fog or late at night. Often when is was 0dark 30, cold and damp and I was changing back and forth between a drifter and a ½ oz spinny I would longingly gaze towards shore and wonder what the poor people were doing. I salvaged a lightweight spinnaker staysail from a dumpster to use as a "windseeker" in goose egg conditions. (I have a picture on my office wall of a C&C 39 flying the same staysail in 1977.) For drifter conditions I bought ($500) a lightly used very light Mylar/Kevlar laminate that is a little undersized but it was only $500. When conditions are changing quickly we use Calypso's light #1 which does very well from 3 to 10 knots TWS. Martin Calypso 1970 C&C 43 Seattle ________________________________
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