I logged many hours and miles over an 8 year span on my buddies C&C24, doing PHRF round the marks, day races (40 to 60 miles) and long distance short handed (for a little 24) racing (100+ miles) on Georgian Bay.
It had hanked sails, split backstay with adjuster, triangular mainsheet system, a single radial reaching chute, 2 main reefs, a reefable #3, a 9.9 outboard The best things about the boat - great light air performance, good pointing, easy to get good trim and boat speed on all points of sail. There was a comment about it being tough to handle on reaches, I don't recall that at all. We were able to make the boat perform well on reaches. The reaching chute was amazing - you could carry it right up to a close reach if you had to. On a broad reach, approaching a leeward mark you could put up your headsail, fly the chute almost around the mark, pop the guy pin as you round and head to windward, never slowing down at all. We could gain so much on competitors at leeward marks with that sail (but maybe just making up what we lost by not flying a tri-radial sail . . . ) I think the 225 rating was fair, we had to earn what we won . . . The triangular mainsheet system was poor though. Oh to have had a decent traveller system on that boat. The boat did not perform as well in heavier air and seas. We had several nemesis type competitors who could bear down and blow us away in heavier air - esp a Kirby 1/4 ton and a Thunderbird because of their fractional rigs. There was also a C&C25 we could never seem to keep up with when it started blowing. We usually did well against a Sirius 22, an Abbott 22, a Shark, a Pearson 26, a Catalina 25. Probably the Kirby and the C&C25 were the ones who were harder to beat. Because we were bigger folks ourselves (plus crew - our wives were not tiny either) weight distribution was always something to manage on that boat. I did foredeck and was perhaps not the lightest person to be on the foredeck but we made it work. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Cheers, Steve Hood S/V Diamond Girl C&C 34 Lions Head ON ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:09:10 -0400 From: Ed Dooley <edoo...@madriver.com> To: <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List C&C 24 Club Racing (ok) Message-ID: <cd89a756.8eda%edoo...@madriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Mine is a 1983, but no racing, except when a bunch of us cruisers get together over across Lake Champlain on the New York side at Split Rock we sometimes try to prove our cruiser is faster getting there or back. Hanked on foresails, no spinnaker, adjustable split backstay (which seems overkill for such a small mainsail), boom vang, shin ripping traveler in the cockpit. Ed On 4/9/13 10:38 AM, "cnc-list-requ...@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list-requ...@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Mine is 1978 Niagara model with outboard motor, jiffy reefing, inboard > headsail fairlead tracks, Cunningham, split adjustable backstay, > midboom sheeting with traveler, boom vang, 4:1 outhaul, spinnaker > stuff, everything lead back to the cockpit and barber haulers. It's > all kind of awkward for me because everything is in a different place compared to my previous boat. > Our Thursday night races do not allow spinnakers. > > Dwight I'm glad to know yours did well off the wind. I an pretty sure > if I can improve my sheeting angles off wind I will do better. > > Thanks! > Orren -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://cnc-list.com/pipermail/cnc-list_cnc-list.com/attachments/20130409/e9 a69042/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
