The sails you really need to club race your 30MKI:
a good main sail (Dacron 7 oz crosscut, loose foot, 2+2 batons would be fine to start with) and a good 150 or No.1 (Dacron 8 oz crosscut would be fine) Forget the drifter for racing, focus on white sail races for a while; practice with the drifter until you can get a good ¾ oz triradial spinnaker plus required rigging and gear and trained crew to use it. Step into racing with the spinnaker fleet then. Folding prop is a must to make the bottom more slippery, the speed gain is more than worth the handicap penalty. So if your racing main sail and 155 are still good sails start out with them, maybe invite a more knowledgeable sailor or sail maker aboard to check out your sails. Know how to tune your rig and experiment with different tensions in different wind conditions Dont forget to study the racing rules, your crew and others in your fleet will expect you to know them, especially in close quartered maneuvers, especially around the starting line and at mark roundings you can learn a lot from sources online. Get your core crew together, you and 2 others would be a good start for white sail racing, make sure everyone knows what tasks they are expected to do and practice performance sailing with that crew for a while, then go racing. Close quartered sailing in a fleet will be your big crew challenge; know your rights, avoid collision no matter what there is often a lot of ego involved in racing sailboats By white sail I mean no spinnaker racing. Hope you have a white sail fleet, because IMHO boats that race without spinnaker in windward/leeward courses are at a huge speed disadvantage to boats flying spinnakers that is not effectively compensated within the handicap system. _____ From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Curtis Sent: January 2, 2014 11:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Stus-List 30MK1 Racing ability Thanks for the advise. I don't yet have a crew. I have 7 sails that came with the boat. They are 1) standard Main 2) racing main 3) %115 Working "reef-able" Jib 4) % 135 Genoa 5) %155 6) %170 The standard main seams to be stretched out a bit I cant seam to get it to flatten out? 7 Asymmetrical or pole-less Drifter It came with a 3" spinnaker pole and a telescopic whisker pole. It does not have a cabin-house track for head sail trim? only track is way back next to the main winch? On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Gary Nylander <[email protected]> wrote: I've had Penniless for nearly 20 years and agree with what others have said. We had J-24's in the fleet and in light air they clobbered us. Then we moved them to the 'fast' fleet. But..... I have a shelf full of trophies that indicates that the 30-1 is OK. The ex-Admiral (and still boat partner) has an overall trophy from the 2010 B fleet (handicaps over 150 and no J-24's) which indicates with new sails and a clean bottom and a good crew (all of which she had), it is competitive. I won our Jib and Main series in 2013 and was second in a small Frostbite series, but the Thunderbird didn't come out for all the races (another good light air boat which we owe half a minute a mile to...). Depending on the depth of your fleet and local conditions you will have a great time. If your club includes sport boats and the like, then you may get frustrated - this past year the J-80 I was on and one other J-80 clobbered our small Saturday fleet - there were a few races where we were the only boats which finished within the time limit... but they didn't come out for JAM and Frostbite and I did well on Penniless. You have to realize that the 'new' boats for the most part have very different ratings that the 30. We are at 174 on the Chesapeake, the J-80 is 120, the Viper is 111, so they have to do really well to prevail. If you get to planing conditions (which are also good for the 30) they can take off and leave you in the dust, but in the 10 to 14 area you can go nearly as fast as they do. In under 5 knots they ghost along and leave you. And, you have a large spinnaker - downwind, they have to go nearly twice as far to keep up with you. If it is choppy, then you will do well, as they get stopped by the waves..... Give it a go - if you are new at racing, your learning curve will be the main problem to overcome, not the boat. And.... clean (smooth) bottom, good sails, and a good crew - can't emphasize that enough. Gary St. Michaels MD ----- Original Message ----- From: Curtis <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 7:27 AM Subject: Stus-List 30MK1 Racing ability Does the C&C30MK1 have the abilities to be a competitive club racer given all the new boats joining the field? What can be done to make it be more competitive? anybody want to share? The boat is new to me "well" a couple of years now but I think I would like to race a little but don't want to race a boat that cant win. Thanks for your help. 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