I was amazed at how well my spinnaker was doing with the wind forward of the beam. I was flying it in asym mode, but it was cut as a symmetrical. I was racing a C&C 40 up the winding twisting Chester and from a broad reach to a close reach they could not pass us with a full main and #1 genoa. One little tight section to go and then bear off to run down to Chestertown on a broad reach and we'll have this race :) Hmm - wind coming up a bit - boat healing over - here comes a gust - RIIIIP there goes red white and blue nylon bits all flying off to leeward :(
Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Curtis Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 8:35 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Asymmetric Sailing to weather Great that a disaster was thwarted. I love how little it takes me in a story to open up my imagination. Thanks . On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 5:37 PM, TOM VINCENT <tvince...@msn.com<mailto:tvince...@msn.com>> wrote: It looks like I wrote something without a total explanation. Light air is the usual air that we have on Wednesday night races, I would not think of taking the asym to weather in true winds over 6 to 8 knots. My #1 is a 150 and it does the job up to 10 to 12 true, I usually have a crew of 6 to 7 and their weight on the rail makes a huge difference. I broached once last year during the prerace, we were fooling around with the spinnaker up and got hit with a wind gust that must have been in the high teens and we were on a beam reach. It was not funny at the moment; but, one of the crew was sitting on the coaming in the cockpit and when we broached he slid off and his butt hit the water. He thought he was a goner, thank god for life lines. Tom Frolic II C&C 36' cb Chesapeake City, MD _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> -- "Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world." - Nicholas Monsarrat
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