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- From: tarkkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lauri Tarkkonen)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: Tuff Luff and other headstay foils
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.234048.4444@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:40:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.014200.22963@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Nov10.183134.2735@das.harvard.edu> <1992Nov10.221143.13020@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <13NOV199211382963@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- In <13NOV199211382963@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu> ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (Two copper pyramids glued base to base with sap) writes:
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- >You seem to be oversimplifying the situation to support an argument that
- >the foil is always bad.
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- Your are absolutely right, in this kind of a discussion every one of us
- is oversimplifying. The big difference is the size of the boat and the
- type of rigg and then hte use of hte whole thing, cruising or racing.
-
- >You probably wouldn't try to convince us that coffee
- >grinders are bad/not worth the money/unreliable because you don't find them
- >on a j-24. On his S2, any time you are bareheaded you can't go upwind at all.
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- Very often the change of the fore sail is done during some other manouvers,
- at least I try to do it while I am on the run or a spinnaker reach. So it
- will not hurt me as much.
-
- >Even without fumbling, you still have to get all those hanks off (and more
- >hanks than on a j-24) after you drop the jib. Ok, maybe it's not 40
- >boatlengths,but even if it's 10 additional boatlengths, you go with the foil.
- >Besides j-24's hardly ever change headsails in the middle of a leg.
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- Even if I had a foil, I would avoid it.
-
- >By the way, did this get out? I think my news system is unreliable.
-
- At least I am reading you loud and clear.
-
- - Lauri Tarkkonen
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- >Tom O'Toole - ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu - JHUVMS system programmer
- >Homewood Computing Facilities, Johns Hopkins University, Balto. Md. 21218
- >>Here comes a jet ski.
- >>weuh weeuhh weeuhh weeuhh WEEUHH WEEUHH WEEUHH WEEUHH weeuhh weeuhh weeuhh weuh
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