[Public-List] Public-List Digest, Vol 3645, Issue 1
Gordon Laco
mainstay at csolve.net
Sun May 27 05:46:59 PDT 2018
Or if you keep the furler, consider it only as a means of stowing the sail… NOT as a means of shortening sail.
Gordon Laco
#426 Surprise
> On May 27, 2018, at 7:41 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>
> Good morning -
>
> I’d suggest that you were underpowered… and a rolled headsail results in a very poorly shaped headsail delivering more heeling force than forward drive. It is not possible to sail well with a partially rolled headsail.
>
> What size is your genoa when normally set? If it is a 150 or less, you’d have been better off with it set normally, but with the sheet leads shifted aft slightly to induce twist, and the halyard housed hard to pull draft forward. The trouble with partially rolling the sail is that you end up with a baggy sail with the draft in the wrong place… sometimes causing more trouble than a larger flatter sail.
>
> Was your reefed main flat? A poorly reefed main can actually cause more heeling forces than an unreeled one. In addition, if the main isn’t reefed so it is flatter than a full main, you’ll end up with a lot of weather helm… the boat will have to drag her rudder through the water and that saps speed.
>
> Forgive me if your main was well reefed… but I have seen many poorly reefed mains… a properly reefed sail doesn’t need it’s reef points tied at all… all the load is on the reef clew which draws the new foot of the sail hard up against the boom. If there is any load on the reef points at all, then the clew reef line is too slack, resulting in a baggy sail. The only thing the reef points should do is bunch up the bunt or loose fabric of the reefed sail so you can see under it… nothing else.
>
> Taken all together, the upshot of this is that if a boat has shortened sail too much for the conditions, and the means of shortening sail prevents what sail is still set from driving her along, she’ll feel unhappy… if there’s a chop, she’ll lack power to drive through it. If she’s beating, she won’t point and will feel soggy… if she’s racing, the fleet will draw away… if she’s cruising, well she won’t get where she wants to go with much grace and pleasure…
>
> Gordon Laco
> #426 Surprise
>
>
>
>
>> On May 27, 2018, at 7:17 AM, Sheldon Shikoluk via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>
>> Raced my A30 in 20 knt. winds yesterday, had a single reef in main and
>> rolled genoa up to 100%. couldnt sail well with the chop any suggestions
>> Rainbow A30
>>
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>>> 1. Re: Second race of the year... (Joseph Balderson)
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>>> 3. Re: Second race of the year... (Gordon Laco)
>>> 4. Re: Second race of the year... (Joseph Balderson)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 06:33:08 -0400
>>> From: Joseph Balderson <joebinc at gmail.com>
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>>> How many degrees will Suprise tack through in 8kts of breeze and a fairly
>>> smooth sea?
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 25, 2018, 11:27 AM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello gang -
>>>>
>>>> Well I missed writing up the first race of the year, as has been my habit
>>>> for a while now, so here?s the Second Race of the Year.
>>>>
>>>> The first race is perhaps better laid aside, due to a regrettable lapse
>>> on
>>>> my part involving forgetting to put the spinnaker aboard. We finished
>>> 3rd
>>>> but the experience was marred by the three of us bickering all the way
>>>> around the course trying to place blame for the big forget. Well I
>>> should
>>>> say it was the crew against me, a two way bicker, not three. I feel
>>> quite
>>>> justified in suggesting that they should not have believed me when I said
>>>> earlier in the week that the ?chute was still aboard from last year? my
>>>> track record should have alerted to them to the fact that I rarely recall
>>>> things like that correctly. Clearly they should have challenged me, and
>>>> that challenge would have driven me to check and THAT would have revealed
>>>> that the sail was not in the boat. If they?d done that, we?d have had
>>> the
>>>> sail and surely would have fought our way up to a first place finish. If
>>>> we?d had the spinnaker on board. Their position was that I should have
>>>> checked myself. Weak, I say.
>>>>
>>>> There was another problem. This one I place squarely on the race
>>>> committee. Due to a bit of confusion on their part, and a drifting
>>>> windward mark, they initiated the start sequence four times. One time
>>>> involved the guy on the horn trying it out? his timid staccato beeps made
>>>> everyone start their watches? Then the mark drifted and the second start
>>>> sequence was cancelled while the crash boat sped out to windward to catch
>>>> it and anchor it properly? I forget what happened with the third
>>>> (accidental beep again I think) then there was the real start.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, we were charging in, glorying in our brand new genoa being used
>>>> for the first time, when I realized with ten seconds to go that we were
>>>> alone? the rest of our fleet was about minute and ten seconds behind us.
>>>> Yup? we were making a perfect start a minute early. The upshot of all
>>> that
>>>> was having to wheel around and start after everyone. We clawed our way
>>> up
>>>> from last place to third, but as usual, we were left wondering how things
>>>> might have turned out if we?d only started better?and if we?d had the
>>>> spinnaker...
>>>>
>>>> Well I guess I did tell about the first race after all? on to the second.
>>>>
>>>> This time we DID have the spinnaker aboard, but Steve had to cancel so it
>>>> was only Clint and I to run the boat. I decided not to fly the sail. We
>>>> got a clean start, marvelled at how with the new sail we could keep up
>>> with
>>>> SUNDANCE ,our mortal enemy, upwind? but it all fell apart at the leeward
>>>> mark after the run when we became entangled in a squabbling mass of
>>> vermin
>>>> (Shark class yachts) in addition to the majestic TO LIFE, the custom
>>>> Killing 50 which had started with A Fleet five minutes behind us and was
>>>> overtaking. By the time we got clear of all the dead air (and the fine
>>>> breeze had subsided to a sigh of course) SUNDANCE as 1/3 of the windward
>>>> leg ahead of us and we were never close to them again. We ended up 4th
>>> in
>>>> our fleet? not great but ahead of MAID MARION, so we took solace in that.
>>>>
>>>> Oh well, there?s always next week? bring on the 2018 racing season!
>>>>
>>>> Gordon Laco
>>>> #426 SURPRISE
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 08:31:52 -0400
>>> From: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
>>> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
>>> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Second race of the year...
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>>> With leeway, I don?t reckon she can do better than 100 degrees. She?ll
>>> point a little higher, but unless it?s blowing it?s not worth jamming her
>>> up that high? she just slows down and leeway increases.
>>>
>>> She comes to life upwind in wind over 12 knots. We are competitive in
>>> that wind speed and above, but performance drops dramatically when the air
>>> is below 8-10 knots compared to our foes. Funny thing is that we come to
>>> life again in drifting conditions when we?re gliding along at 0.5 knots?
>>> we are deadly in very light airs. I think the reason is that once we get
>>> her moving, she doesn?t stop. Our narrowness and weight play for us so
>>> long as I don?t wiggle around too much. We accelerate in puffs much more
>>> slowly than the lighter boats, but once we get going, we glide a long way
>>> in the lulls when they just stop.
>>>
>>> There are no Alberg 30?s who care to race where we sail so we?re always in
>>> a mixed fleet racing against Pearson 28, Aloha 27, CS 27 C&C 27, Irwin 31,
>>> Tanzer 7.5, Niagara 26 etc on PHRF. There is a Grampion 26 who sometimes
>>> comes out? ?Grumps? are ugly as sin, but are good sailors, as is the Tanzer
>>> 22? both those boats somewhat anomalies in their tribes so people used to
>>> make jokes that their designers were just lucky with them when all their
>>> larger and smaller boats in their lines were such poor performers.
>>>
>>> Gordon Laco
>>> #426 Surprise
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On May 26, 2018, at 6:33 AM, Joseph Balderson via Public-List <
>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How many degrees will Suprise tack through in 8kts of breeze and a fairly
>>>> smooth sea?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2018, 11:27 AM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello gang -
>>>>>
>>>>> Well I missed writing up the first race of the year, as has been my
>>> habit
>>>>> for a while now, so here?s the Second Race of the Year.
>>>>>
>>>>> The first race is perhaps better laid aside, due to a regrettable lapse
>>> on
>>>>> my part involving forgetting to put the spinnaker aboard. We finished
>>> 3rd
>>>>> but the experience was marred by the three of us bickering all the way
>>>>> around the course trying to place blame for the big forget. Well I
>>> should
>>>>> say it was the crew against me, a two way bicker, not three. I feel
>>> quite
>>>>> justified in suggesting that they should not have believed me when I
>>> said
>>>>> earlier in the week that the ?chute was still aboard from last year? my
>>>>> track record should have alerted to them to the fact that I rarely
>>> recall
>>>>> things like that correctly. Clearly they should have challenged me, and
>>>>> that challenge would have driven me to check and THAT would have
>>> revealed
>>>>> that the sail was not in the boat. If they?d done that, we?d have had
>>> the
>>>>> sail and surely would have fought our way up to a first place finish.
>>> If
>>>>> we?d had the spinnaker on board. Their position was that I should have
>>>>> checked myself. Weak, I say.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was another problem. This one I place squarely on the race
>>>>> committee. Due to a bit of confusion on their part, and a drifting
>>>>> windward mark, they initiated the start sequence four times. One time
>>>>> involved the guy on the horn trying it out? his timid staccato beeps
>>> made
>>>>> everyone start their watches? Then the mark drifted and the second start
>>>>> sequence was cancelled while the crash boat sped out to windward to
>>> catch
>>>>> it and anchor it properly? I forget what happened with the third
>>>>> (accidental beep again I think) then there was the real start.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, we were charging in, glorying in our brand new genoa being used
>>>>> for the first time, when I realized with ten seconds to go that we were
>>>>> alone? the rest of our fleet was about minute and ten seconds behind
>>> us.
>>>>> Yup? we were making a perfect start a minute early. The upshot of all
>>> that
>>>>> was having to wheel around and start after everyone. We clawed our way
>>> up
>>>>> from last place to third, but as usual, we were left wondering how
>>> things
>>>>> might have turned out if we?d only started better?and if we?d had the
>>>>> spinnaker...
>>>>>
>>>>> Well I guess I did tell about the first race after all? on to the
>>> second.
>>>>>
>>>>> This time we DID have the spinnaker aboard, but Steve had to cancel so
>>> it
>>>>> was only Clint and I to run the boat. I decided not to fly the sail.
>>> We
>>>>> got a clean start, marvelled at how with the new sail we could keep up
>>> with
>>>>> SUNDANCE ,our mortal enemy, upwind? but it all fell apart at the leeward
>>>>> mark after the run when we became entangled in a squabbling mass of
>>> vermin
>>>>> (Shark class yachts) in addition to the majestic TO LIFE, the custom
>>>>> Killing 50 which had started with A Fleet five minutes behind us and was
>>>>> overtaking. By the time we got clear of all the dead air (and the fine
>>>>> breeze had subsided to a sigh of course) SUNDANCE as 1/3 of the windward
>>>>> leg ahead of us and we were never close to them again. We ended up
>>> 4th in
>>>>> our fleet? not great but ahead of MAID MARION, so we took solace in
>>> that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh well, there?s always next week? bring on the 2018 racing season!
>>>>>
>>>>> Gordon Laco
>>>>> #426 SURPRISE
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>> Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 08:42:14 -0400
>>> From: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
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>>> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Second race of the year...
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>>> And all that reminds me of when I had the honour of being one of HMS BEE?s
>>> captains? she?s an apes-War of 1812 replica schooner gunboat. She could be
>>> jammed up to seem to point quite high (for a schooner) but the leeway up
>>> there was heartbreaking.
>>>
>>> When doing her best, laid off a bit and footing along, I would stand by
>>> the helmsman and look to leeward through the foremast?s shrouds? THAT was
>>> where we were going, not where the bowsprit was pointing. But that was
>>> better than what she?d do jammed up as high as she?d point?
>>>
>>> Well you have to love gaff rigged schooners for what they are? and there?s
>>> lots to love... but they don?t sail like sloops can. That said, I think
>>> BLUENOSE, the famous Grand Banks schooner, unbeaten during her career,
>>> still holds the speed record for average speed sailing around a triangular
>>> course? I think I read she averaged 17 knots: beating, running and
>>> reaching.
>>>
>>> Gordon Laco
>>> #426 Surprise
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On May 26, 2018, at 6:33 AM, Joseph Balderson via Public-List <
>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How many degrees will Suprise tack through in 8kts of breeze and a fairly
>>>> smooth sea?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2018, 11:27 AM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello gang -
>>>>>
>>>>> Well I missed writing up the first race of the year, as has been my
>>> habit
>>>>> for a while now, so here?s the Second Race of the Year.
>>>>>
>>>>> The first race is perhaps better laid aside, due to a regrettable lapse
>>> on
>>>>> my part involving forgetting to put the spinnaker aboard. We finished
>>> 3rd
>>>>> but the experience was marred by the three of us bickering all the way
>>>>> around the course trying to place blame for the big forget. Well I
>>> should
>>>>> say it was the crew against me, a two way bicker, not three. I feel
>>> quite
>>>>> justified in suggesting that they should not have believed me when I
>>> said
>>>>> earlier in the week that the ?chute was still aboard from last year? my
>>>>> track record should have alerted to them to the fact that I rarely
>>> recall
>>>>> things like that correctly. Clearly they should have challenged me, and
>>>>> that challenge would have driven me to check and THAT would have
>>> revealed
>>>>> that the sail was not in the boat. If they?d done that, we?d have had
>>> the
>>>>> sail and surely would have fought our way up to a first place finish.
>>> If
>>>>> we?d had the spinnaker on board. Their position was that I should have
>>>>> checked myself. Weak, I say.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was another problem. This one I place squarely on the race
>>>>> committee. Due to a bit of confusion on their part, and a drifting
>>>>> windward mark, they initiated the start sequence four times. One time
>>>>> involved the guy on the horn trying it out? his timid staccato beeps
>>> made
>>>>> everyone start their watches? Then the mark drifted and the second start
>>>>> sequence was cancelled while the crash boat sped out to windward to
>>> catch
>>>>> it and anchor it properly? I forget what happened with the third
>>>>> (accidental beep again I think) then there was the real start.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, we were charging in, glorying in our brand new genoa being used
>>>>> for the first time, when I realized with ten seconds to go that we were
>>>>> alone? the rest of our fleet was about minute and ten seconds behind
>>> us.
>>>>> Yup? we were making a perfect start a minute early. The upshot of all
>>> that
>>>>> was having to wheel around and start after everyone. We clawed our way
>>> up
>>>>> from last place to third, but as usual, we were left wondering how
>>> things
>>>>> might have turned out if we?d only started better?and if we?d had the
>>>>> spinnaker...
>>>>>
>>>>> Well I guess I did tell about the first race after all? on to the
>>> second.
>>>>>
>>>>> This time we DID have the spinnaker aboard, but Steve had to cancel so
>>> it
>>>>> was only Clint and I to run the boat. I decided not to fly the sail.
>>> We
>>>>> got a clean start, marvelled at how with the new sail we could keep up
>>> with
>>>>> SUNDANCE ,our mortal enemy, upwind? but it all fell apart at the leeward
>>>>> mark after the run when we became entangled in a squabbling mass of
>>> vermin
>>>>> (Shark class yachts) in addition to the majestic TO LIFE, the custom
>>>>> Killing 50 which had started with A Fleet five minutes behind us and was
>>>>> overtaking. By the time we got clear of all the dead air (and the fine
>>>>> breeze had subsided to a sigh of course) SUNDANCE as 1/3 of the windward
>>>>> leg ahead of us and we were never close to them again. We ended up
>>> 4th in
>>>>> our fleet? not great but ahead of MAID MARION, so we took solace in
>>> that.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh well, there?s always next week? bring on the 2018 racing season!
>>>>>
>>>>> Gordon Laco
>>>>> #426 SURPRISE
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>> Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 09:06:06 -0400
>>> From: Joseph Balderson <joebinc at gmail.com>
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>>> I'm there with pointing, 100 plus a little. So it's full and by no pinch.
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 26, 2018, 8:32 AM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> With leeway, I don?t reckon she can do better than 100 degrees. She?ll
>>>> point a little higher, but unless it?s blowing it?s not worth jamming her
>>>> up that high? she just slows down and leeway increases.
>>>>
>>>> She comes to life upwind in wind over 12 knots. We are competitive in
>>>> that wind speed and above, but performance drops dramatically when the
>>> air
>>>> is below 8-10 knots compared to our foes. Funny thing is that we come to
>>>> life again in drifting conditions when we?re gliding along at 0.5 knots?
>>>> we are deadly in very light airs. I think the reason is that once we get
>>>> her moving, she doesn?t stop. Our narrowness and weight play for us so
>>>> long as I don?t wiggle around too much. We accelerate in puffs much more
>>>> slowly than the lighter boats, but once we get going, we glide a long way
>>>> in the lulls when they just stop.
>>>>
>>>> There are no Alberg 30?s who care to race where we sail so we?re always
>>> in
>>>> a mixed fleet racing against Pearson 28, Aloha 27, CS 27 C&C 27, Irwin
>>> 31,
>>>> Tanzer 7.5, Niagara 26 etc on PHRF. There is a Grampion 26 who sometimes
>>>> comes out? ?Grumps? are ugly as sin, but are good sailors, as is the
>>> Tanzer
>>>> 22? both those boats somewhat anomalies in their tribes so people used to
>>>> make jokes that their designers were just lucky with them when all their
>>>> larger and smaller boats in their lines were such poor performers.
>>>>
>>>> Gordon Laco
>>>> #426 Surprise
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On May 26, 2018, at 6:33 AM, Joseph Balderson via Public-List <
>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> How many degrees will Suprise tack through in 8kts of breeze and a
>>> fairly
>>>>> smooth sea?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 25, 2018, 11:27 AM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
>>>>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello gang -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well I missed writing up the first race of the year, as has been my
>>>> habit
>>>>>> for a while now, so here?s the Second Race of the Year.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The first race is perhaps better laid aside, due to a regrettable
>>> lapse
>>>> on
>>>>>> my part involving forgetting to put the spinnaker aboard. We
>>> finished
>>>> 3rd
>>>>>> but the experience was marred by the three of us bickering all the way
>>>>>> around the course trying to place blame for the big forget. Well I
>>>> should
>>>>>> say it was the crew against me, a two way bicker, not three. I feel
>>>> quite
>>>>>> justified in suggesting that they should not have believed me when I
>>>> said
>>>>>> earlier in the week that the ?chute was still aboard from last year?
>>> my
>>>>>> track record should have alerted to them to the fact that I rarely
>>>> recall
>>>>>> things like that correctly. Clearly they should have challenged me,
>>> and
>>>>>> that challenge would have driven me to check and THAT would have
>>>> revealed
>>>>>> that the sail was not in the boat. If they?d done that, we?d have
>>> had
>>>> the
>>>>>> sail and surely would have fought our way up to a first place finish.
>>>> If
>>>>>> we?d had the spinnaker on board. Their position was that I should
>>> have
>>>>>> checked myself. Weak, I say.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There was another problem. This one I place squarely on the race
>>>>>> committee. Due to a bit of confusion on their part, and a drifting
>>>>>> windward mark, they initiated the start sequence four times. One time
>>>>>> involved the guy on the horn trying it out? his timid staccato beeps
>>>> made
>>>>>> everyone start their watches? Then the mark drifted and the second
>>> start
>>>>>> sequence was cancelled while the crash boat sped out to windward to
>>>> catch
>>>>>> it and anchor it properly? I forget what happened with the third
>>>>>> (accidental beep again I think) then there was the real start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, we were charging in, glorying in our brand new genoa being
>>> used
>>>>>> for the first time, when I realized with ten seconds to go that we
>>> were
>>>>>> alone? the rest of our fleet was about minute and ten seconds behind
>>>> us.
>>>>>> Yup? we were making a perfect start a minute early. The upshot of all
>>>> that
>>>>>> was having to wheel around and start after everyone. We clawed our
>>> way
>>>> up
>>>>>> from last place to third, but as usual, we were left wondering how
>>>> things
>>>>>> might have turned out if we?d only started better?and if we?d had the
>>>>>> spinnaker...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well I guess I did tell about the first race after all? on to the
>>>> second.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This time we DID have the spinnaker aboard, but Steve had to cancel so
>>>> it
>>>>>> was only Clint and I to run the boat. I decided not to fly the sail.
>>>> We
>>>>>> got a clean start, marvelled at how with the new sail we could keep up
>>>> with
>>>>>> SUNDANCE ,our mortal enemy, upwind? but it all fell apart at the
>>> leeward
>>>>>> mark after the run when we became entangled in a squabbling mass of
>>>> vermin
>>>>>> (Shark class yachts) in addition to the majestic TO LIFE, the custom
>>>>>> Killing 50 which had started with A Fleet five minutes behind us and
>>> was
>>>>>> overtaking. By the time we got clear of all the dead air (and the
>>> fine
>>>>>> breeze had subsided to a sigh of course) SUNDANCE as 1/3 of the
>>> windward
>>>>>> leg ahead of us and we were never close to them again. We ended up
>>>> 4th in
>>>>>> our fleet? not great but ahead of MAID MARION, so we took solace in
>>>> that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oh well, there?s always next week? bring on the 2018 racing season!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gordon Laco
>>>>>> #426 SURPRISE
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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