For most of your racing, you will use the racing main and the 135 or 155. I seldom use my working jib but we don't get a lot of heavy weather around here. Keep the standard main for practice. You may be trying to flatten it out too much....a genoa will produce a backwind which makes the main look terrible, but that is usual on a 30.
You should sheet your 135 and 155's to the track near the winch. My boat didn't have any jib tracks when I got her, and I added a track which starts about a foot behind the shrouds (even with them) and is about 6 feet long. My sheeting point for the 155 is roughly in the middle of the lifeline gate, for my 140+/- it is at the front of the gate. The working jib goes just past the shrouds and I sheet it so that the clew just hits the shrouds. I seldom use it. Many 30's just used snatch blocks on the rail for jib sheets, but you need something inside that, which your track should handle. When reaching, I use various methods to get the jib clew more outboard than my track will allow - I have spinnaker twings (tweakers) ( small blocks in about the middle of the boat on the rail ) which I can use to get the clew back out to the rail. If it is blowing a bit, I have used snatch blocks to the rail - you have to get the clew more outboard or it just becomes big and round and slows the boat down. I have the spinnaker pole and an adjustable whisker pole, but seldom use the whisker - the rules penalize you for anything longer than 13.5 feet (the J measurement) and the spin pole is that long. Also the rules penalize anything bigger than 155%, so the 170 is only good for cruising. If your rules allow larger genoas or longer poles, then you could use the 170 and an extended whisker pole and sail non spinnaker. Check your PHRF rules - one of our groups allows you to sail non-spinnaker with the rest of the fleet and get a 10% handicap adjustment. I don't think that is enough. Our other local group allows non-spinnaker with a 15% adjustment and a cruising chute tacked to the bow with 7.5%. Nobody allows genoas larger than 155% without penalty. My opinion is the 30 would not benefit from having inboard tracks for the small jib. The boat is kind of fat (10 foot beam) and running the jib past the shrouds on the outside gives a sheeting angle of about 10-12 degrees, which is about all it needs. As I don't sail in heavy weather very often (my working jib is still 'krinkly' after 30 years) so I may be wrong - as your previous owner built an adjustable little jib, you may have different conditions. I also only have a single reef, but the boat was built for two - again, I don't seem to need it. If I were you, I would start by sailing non-spinnaker and find a crew and develop your crew work. Then add the spinnaker to the mix. Learning the racing rules and tactics and changing sails and flying the spinnaker is a lot to absorb in a limited time. I don't know where you sail and don't know how many opportunities you have to race, but there is more to learn than there is time for most of us. Find someone who has some experience to help - pick his/her brain to build your skills. Maybe let someone else drive so you can learn the skills that each person on the boat needs to you can coach other crew later. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: Curtis To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Stus-List 30MK1 Racing ability Thanks for the advise. I don't yet have a crew. I have 7 sails that came with the boat. They are 1) standard Main 2) racing main 3) %115 Working "reef-able" Jib 4) % 135 Genoa 5) %155 6) %170 The standard main seams to be stretched out a bit I cant seam to get it to flatten out? 7 Asymmetrical or pole-less Drifter It came with a 3" spinnaker pole and a telescopic whisker pole. It does not have a cabin-house track for head sail trim? only track is way back next to the main winch?
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