[Public-List] Spring racing?

[Lawrence Morris]

John,

Rolph Townsend Won the season championship 7 years in a row without a  
adjustable backstay.  set it with medium tension and leave it.   You  
spend that money better elsewhere.  Same goes for the traveler.   
Invest that money in a racing genoa that will fit your roller furler.   
This arrangement works very well.  I have one for my boat and for  
going around the buoys it ease's the load on the foredeck. hoist the  
spinnaker and roll the genoa.

Racing genoa and a smooth, clean bottom will get you the biggest bang  
for your buck.

That's my 2 cents

Larry Morris
Solstice #501

On Dec 22, 2008, at 9:32 AM, John Scott wrote:

> Hi All.
>
> Never too soon to think of Spring, even though last nights wind was  
> howling and cold.
>
> For years (and years...) my friends and I have been sailing a  
> neighborhood Triton in the Wednesday night racing series on the  
> Miles River.  Sadly, our skipper is no longer with us.  We'd like to  
> stay together and we've been thinking of sailing Wooshkeetaan.   
> After all, she's just a big Triton.  Our biggest challenge will be  
> to transform her from a cruiser to a racer (affordably).  As first  
> steps, I suspect that top on our list of changes will be moving from  
> a roller furling genoa to a racing jib, moving from the old,  
> ineffective, traveller to a new one and, possibly an adjustable back  
> stay.  I plan to go back through the listserv archives for previous  
> discussions, but if any A30 racers are looking for something to do  
> today in this freezing weather, I'm open to any and all suggestions  
> (sail types, hardware, priorities, PHRF rating, etc.)
>
> Thanks, in advance.
>
> John Scott
> Wooshkeetaan #26
>
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