It looks like I wrote something without a total explanation. Light air is the
usual air that we have on Wednesday night races, I would not think of taking
the asym to weather in true winds over 6 to 8 knots. My #1 is a 150 and it does
the job up to 10 to 12 true, I usually have a crew of 6 to 7 and their weight
on the rail makes a huge difference. I broached once last year during the
prerace, we were fooling around with the spinnaker up and got hit with a wind
gust that must have been in the high teens and we were on a beam reach. It was
not funny at the moment; but, one of the crew was sitting on the coaming in the
cockpit and when we broached he slid off and his butt hit the water. He thought
he was a goner, thank god for life lines.
Tom
Frolic II C&C 36' cb
Chesapeake City, MD
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