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- From: whoward@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (Will Howard)
- Subject: Re: Tuff Luff and other headstay foils
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.143223.8009@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:32:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.201859.71493@watson.ibm.com> dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W.
- Levine) writes:
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- >On a bigger boat, the trade offs change a lot. If you have tactical room
- >for it, a tack change on a twin slot headfoil is pretty efficient. You
- >should be
- >able to do hookup at the cost of your bowman forward for about a minute,
- >followed
- >by under a minute to do the hoist, followed by a tack, and then another short
- >period while the bowman slaps the shock-cord over the old jib to keep it from
- >leaving. Probably about 3 minutes end to end, with the penalty being that of
- >having the weight on the bow. For a NY-36, that's between 1 and 2 tenths of
- >a knot of boatspeed. You lose a little more because you are going to incurr
- >some loss of focus and attention when all this is going on, but it's not huge.
- >Probably a little longer to do a inside or outside set, if you don't want to
- >take the hitch for a tack change due to tactical considerations.
- >
- .
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- .
- >
- >My guess, again for a NY-36, since that's the boat I'm most familiar with, is
- >that the break-even point for a tack change is a little under 3/4 of a
- nautical
- >mile from the mark. More than that and it's a clear win, under that and
- >you don't
- >get back the cost, unless the conditions have changed an awful lot. I'd say
- you
- >can change a little closer to the mark going to the larger genoa than the
- other
- >way round, and I'd also say that the distances only vary a little betwen
- >changes
- >between a #1 and a #2 or a #2 and a #3.
-
- Also both the NY36 and J24 are fractional-rigged boats. For a big masthead boat
- the cost (of changing headsails)/benefit(of having the right sail up) ratio
- shifts further in favor of changing jibs. As with any maneuver it really helps
- to practice sail changes under non-race conditions.
-