Alianna, my 35 MKII is setup up similar to Fireball with the high aspect ratio mainsail, ie shorter boom and she has a similar compliment of sails, mostly all Sobstad including a very light 162 percent genny and 2 spinnakers a staysail and a blooper. Nowadays most of those sails stay in dry storage in my basement and for cruising and single handed i have an 8 oz 135 furling headsail and loose foot main with 2 reef options. For best pointing i also feather up and lower the main on the traveller to keep the leeward rail dry which means below 23 degrees heel angle. All control lines are lead to the cockpit so no need to leave the cockpit to reef when conditions dictate. If i recall correctly Fireball has added ballast so she will be stiffer than Alianna and will likely point better. I won’t modify Alianna at this stage but i believe added ballast such as provided by a keel shoe would make her a better boat all around. It takes a Full compliment of very skilled crew to use the full sail inventory effectively and to provide weight on the windward rail when going hard to weather.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:20 PM Don Kern via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Ron > > Fireball carries four head sails when racing each has a cut and weight > appropriate to the apparent wind: light #1 150% (3-12 kts), #2 135% (12-20 > kts), #3 120%(18-28 kts) and #4 85% (survival). The main has only two > reefs, the lower reef points are placed between where a 1st and 2nd reef > would normally be and a the upper a little above the position of a normal > second reef. The boat was optimized for SORC racing in the mid 70s by C&C > and has a boom 2 ft shorter than normal (11.5 ft vs normal 13.5ft), thus I > do not put a reef in until 15+ kts with a #2 flying. We throw in > (literally) the second reef with a #3 when the boat is laying over too far. > I find the boat feathers up nicely in heavy air and try to keep the toerail > out of the water by easing the main down on the main track in gust. Always > trying adjust the sails to point and keep the boat on its feet (rail out of > the water). > > Cruising, we use a 138% roller furl and a main with three sets of reef > points. > > Seems like a lot of sails, but I've had the boat from 1980, so you do get > a collection. However, had to get a new #3 and #4 this year since I > destroyed the 20+ yrs old #4 and had the old #3 de-laminate. > Don Kern > *Fireball *C&C 35 Mk2 > Bristol RI > > > > On 6/20/2019 4:37 PM, Ronald B. Frerker via CnC-List wrote: > > That sure seems to be true and I wonder why??? Are we just being too > cautious when we start with a no.2 or when we drop to the no.3? Or is > there really no need ever for a no. 2? > Although cloth density might make a difference if our no. 1 is really for > light air. > Ron > Wild Cheri > C&C 30-1 > STL > > > On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, 03:29:55 PM CDT, Dennis C. via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > > For those of us race and change sails, one of my racer buddies told me you > never change down from a #1 to a #2. You always drop to your #3. In my > years racing since he told me that, I’ve come to agree with him. > > You might start with a #2 but you rarely change down to one. > > Dennis C. > Touché 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and > every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile
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