No I think it was small enough that it didn't close off the slot and stop our forward progress.
Andrew Burton 61 W Narragansett Newport, RI USA 02840 http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/ +401 965-5260 On Feb 13, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Martin DeYoung <mdeyo...@deyoungmfg.com> wrote: > 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> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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