+1. I spent three years crewing on other people's boats - headsail and spinnaker trimmer, foredeck, driver, "fourth", etc. - before buying my own boat and raising a crew for racing. My crew are relatively inexperienced and I want us all to rotate around and cross-train on every position. But that's still not the same as one person crewing around on different boats with different crews. My crew won't get that cross-pollination. It helps you judge what works well and what doesn't, and pick up information from a variety of sources.
Cheers, Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis C. via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> To: "cnc-list" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: "Dennis" <capt...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 8:05:28 PM Subject: Re: Stus-List '88 MkII 30 polar? Ditto. That's what I did. Not only do you absorb a lot of sailing go fast knowledge, you will also see what works best as far as running rigging configurations, strategy, etc. I worked every position on lots of boats. My time spent racing on other boats was priceless. I still do it. As a skipper who has experience as main trimmer, genoa trimmer, grinder, put, foredeck, mast, etc. I understand what each crew member is doing, needs to do. Makes me a better skipper. BTW, I didn't usually drive the boat. One of my crew was better at it. I usually did foredeck. Guy in my marina races his boat. He only drives. He never races on other boats nor does he do other positions on his boat. His racing program never improves. The other advantage to racing on other boats is you don't have to pay for broken stuff. :) Dennis C. Touché 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA Sent from my iPhone On Apr 28, 2016, at 7:06 PM, Russ & Melody via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com > wrote: Hi Lorne, Please do not try to learn how to sail and to race with a liveaboard boat that you just got in to. The very best way to learn racing and sailing is to get out by crewing on well found yachts. The ego of most crew members will smother you with information and by the end of a season you will see much of it applied. Good and bad. Then you can use your own boat, loaded as she will be, for pleasure. Say, a nice daysail once in awhile. Cheers, Russ Sweet 35 mk-1 At 03:20 PM 28/04/2016, you wrote: <blockquote> Never raced before, interesting table with lots of boats. I obviously have lots of reading tonight when I get off work. What dimensions are best to get as close to match and in what priority? I assume "I" J, P, E etc in that order need to match and that I is more important to match than J and more so then P etc down the line.  I do plan to get into racing this year, but it's a whole new world to me. I mainly bought it to live on, but want to increase my sailing experience. <blockquote> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Joel Aronson via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com > wrote: I'd look at the PHRF rating for similar sized boats like a Bene Oceanis 31, Dehler 29 etc. and use the closest. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Lorne Serpa via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com > wrote: A couple of my new weather routing apps would like a polar to make routing more accurate.  Anyone have one or know where to get one? If not, there polar are prep loaded. Would any get me close? C5g3 A35 BP5 CIGALE14 CLASS40 FIGARO2 IMOCA2008MONO650 POGO850 TRANSPAC52 Archambault a31 a35 a40rc Bavaria bavaria33 bavaria32 bavaria34 Bénéteau evasion32 figaro2 first210 first21_7 first25_7 first26 first27_7 first30jk first310s first31_7 first325gte first32s5 oceanis31 oceanis34 first24 first29 evasion34 firstclass10 oceanis351 Dehler dehler29 dehler32 Dufour dufour27 dufour34 dufour24 dufour34 Etap etap32i Express express27 Farr far36od mumm30 Hallberg Rassy J Boats j105 j109 j120 j122 j133 Jeanneau jod35 melody sunfast32 sunfast3200 sunfast32i Tartan tartan10 Wauquiez gladiateur X Yachts x332 xp33 _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated! -- Joel 301 541 8551 _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated! _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated! </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote> _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated! </blockquote> _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
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