[Alberg30] Bottoms

[John Birch]

With all respects to Jim's point - I always feel I can use every class legal
advantage I can get, particularly racing against some of the really hot A-30
sailors. In fresh water I'd use VC 17, in salt I'd have said use a hard
smooth paint carefully applied like Pettit's Unepoxy Plus and keep it clean.

All that said, and notwithstanding previous comments re ablatives - at our
Club in Burlington, Ontario, we have a very hot racer - Ron Barr, former
winning Canada's Cup helmsman, '79 Fastnet survivor aboard Evergreen, with
more silverware than Buckingham Palace - in short a very very good sailor -
he has just restored (and I mean wow restored a 1965 C&C Invader - one of
the few good looking C&C's ever made - full keel, counter stern). Ron
cleaned-up on the Lake Ontario Racing Circuit again this summer and what is
he using???? ACP50 - and he has that bottom so smooth. Like a fine shark
skin - and he was deadly on the water too.

He is planning to go South so VC would not have been the right paint for
salt - but I have never seen such a smooth ablative bottom.

No one ever likes to admit they were wrong but re ablatives - perhaps I was
less right ; )

If the paint is applied carefully - and maintained - it too can be fast -
Q.E.D.

Just some thoughts.

Cheers,

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "quest433" <quest433 at msn.com>
To: "Alberg 30 public list" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Alberg30] Bottoms


In the overall equation for winning, the type of bottom paint is probably a
second order effect...especially if your just starting.  It's more important
to have a clean bottom.  A weeks worth of growth is slower than the
difference between 2 kinds of paint....in my opinion.

Jim Mennucci
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Blevins
  To: Alberg 30 public list
  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 6:21 AM
  Subject: [Alberg30] Bottoms


  If you race your A30, do you paint with a "racing" bottom paint or a
"cruising" bottom paint?

  I'm not trying to start a thread on brands of paint, just questioning
whether it's worth the effort to switch from an ablative that I'm happy with
or go for that extra bit of speed by switching to a hard paint.

  Bill Blevins
  Sabrina #158
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