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- From: guido@blink.att.com (Guido Bertocci)
- Subject: Re: Tuff Luff and other headstay foils
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:59:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <guido.722012392@sparc-3>
- References: <1992Nov10.014200.22963@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Nov10.183134.2735@das.harvard.edu> <1992Nov10.221143.13020@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Nov13.185255.4694@ttinews.tti.com> <1992Nov17.000333.5080@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- tarkkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lauri Tarkkonen) writes:
-
- >In <1992Nov13.185255.4694@ttinews.tti.com> scott@soldev.tti.com (Scott Taylor) writes:
- >>I am afraid that you know not of what you speak. When sailing bare headed
- >>you lose both boat speed and pointing ability. On a large boat, where a
- >>headsail change will take 3-5 minutes with hanks, you could easily lose
- >>30-40 boat lengths.
-
- I've crewed on a C&C 35 with hanks and it never took us that long to
- change head sails. Our procedure involved undoing the lower hanks
- on the jib that is still up, attaching the new jib in the space vacated
- by the current jib hanks. When the new one was completely attached, the
- old one was "de-hanked" as it came down. As soon as old one was completely
- off the new one was hoisted. Hoisting a hanked sail is very fast.
- We were probably completely without headsail for only 15-20 seconds.
- While this boat was relatively low tech with a lousy handicap we often beat
- much faster boats by not screwing up boat handling and paying attention
- to tell tales and wind shifts. We also ate real well since
- we made good food a priority :-).
-