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- From: tarkkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lauri Tarkkonen)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: Tuff Luff and other headstay foils
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.215451.3441@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:54:51 GMT
- 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> <guido.722012392@sparc-3>
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- In <guido.722012392@sparc-3> guido@blink.att.com (Guido Bertocci) writes:
-
- >tarkkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lauri Tarkkonen) writes:
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- >>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 :-).
-
- As I said, if you compare badly executed hank sail change to a well executed
- foil change there is a real difference. Because people interested in winning
- races invest more in practice as well as equipment Mr. Scot might be under
- the false impression that there is a really big difference between the
- two procedures, when the real difference was between the crews. :-).
- Maybe I am not that stupid after all. ;-).
-
- - Lauri Tarkkonen
-