[Alberg30] Drifter advice

[greg]

You are exactly right about the coin toss... drifter or motor.   Let me be
more clear... I want to keep sailing and as you say... 12 kts is ideal but 7
or 8 kts is not. There are those situations that arise in the summer months
when the wind is light for weeks and my genny is what I call tail heavy from
the uv protection on the leach and the sheets that are great for the stronger
winds  become to heavy  as well. Lake Michigan is big but it is a bathtub
after all and the surface action  seams to upset the sails more easily than  a
swell. Yes I can and should use a lighter sheet. That said... I was thinking
that  a drifter style roller furling head sail would be the cure. What do I
really want / need?

Kindest regards- Greg

schuylki at vanent.vanebros.com wrote:

> My thinking is 12 knots on the wind is pretty much ideal for an Alberg with
> a #1 genoa (someone once calculated that to be a 163% jib on the Alberg
> 30)and full main.
>
> Drifters are made of nylon; they won't hold an efficient shape hard on the
> wind. Probably why the sailmaker was steering you to the spinniker is that
> sail is more versatile in all other wind directions. I have a tri radial
> spinniker that will carry up to about 70 degrees off the wind (20 degrees
> forward of the beam)-although, at that point I am much more comfortable
> running up the genoa. What I would like is someday to have a radial head
> spinniker to catch more wind going directly downwind.
>
> I guess the point I am making is it's all a matter of preference-to me,
> when the issue of setting a drifter comes up, the issue of starting the
> engine should come up too...
>
> Michael
> Checkmate #220
> P.S. The way I read the class racing rules (here on the Chesapeake) is that
> drifters are not allowed.
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