Thanks for the hael Gary, I sail the Hilton Head Beaufort area. The local BSYC club has some PHFR events frostbite type races I may well start with them. I don belong to the club but I understand they like tohave other sailers join in the fun so they can have more compition. I will leave a link to my site so you can see some of how the boat is set up.
Thanks again for your help. http://eastcostlady.blogspot.com/p/photos-of-progress.html On 1/2/14, Gary Nylander <[email protected]> wrote: > For most of your racing, you will use the racing main and the 135 or 155. I > seldom use my working jib but we don't get a lot of heavy weather around > here. Keep the standard main for practice. You may be trying to flatten it > out too much....a genoa will produce a backwind which makes the main look > terrible, but that is usual on a 30. > > You should sheet your 135 and 155's to the track near the winch. My boat > didn't have any jib tracks when I got her, and I added a track which starts > about a foot behind the shrouds (even with them) and is about 6 feet long. > My sheeting point for the 155 is roughly in the middle of the lifeline gate, > for my 140+/- it is at the front of the gate. The working jib goes just past > the shrouds and I sheet it so that the clew just hits the shrouds. I seldom > use it. > > Many 30's just used snatch blocks on the rail for jib sheets, but you need > something inside that, which your track should handle. > > When reaching, I use various methods to get the jib clew more outboard than > my track will allow - I have spinnaker twings (tweakers) ( small blocks in > about the middle of the boat on the rail ) which I can use to get the clew > back out to the rail. If it is blowing a bit, I have used snatch blocks to > the rail - you have to get the clew more outboard or it just becomes big and > round and slows the boat down. > > I have the spinnaker pole and an adjustable whisker pole, but seldom use the > whisker - the rules penalize you for anything longer than 13.5 feet (the J > measurement) and the spin pole is that long. > > Also the rules penalize anything bigger than 155%, so the 170 is only good > for cruising. If your rules allow larger genoas or longer poles, then you > could use the 170 and an extended whisker pole and sail non spinnaker. > > Check your PHRF rules - one of our groups allows you to sail non-spinnaker > with the rest of the fleet and get a 10% handicap adjustment. I don't think > that is enough. Our other local group allows non-spinnaker with a 15% > adjustment and a cruising chute tacked to the bow with 7.5%. Nobody allows > genoas larger than 155% without penalty. > > My opinion is the 30 would not benefit from having inboard tracks for the > small jib. The boat is kind of fat (10 foot beam) and running the jib past > the shrouds on the outside gives a sheeting angle of about 10-12 degrees, > which is about all it needs. As I don't sail in heavy weather very often (my > working jib is still 'krinkly' after 30 years) so I may be wrong - as your > previous owner built an adjustable little jib, you may have different > conditions. > > I also only have a single reef, but the boat was built for two - again, I > don't seem to need it. > > If I were you, I would start by sailing non-spinnaker and find a crew and > develop your crew work. Then add the spinnaker to the mix. Learning the > racing rules and tactics and changing sails and flying the spinnaker is a > lot to absorb in a limited time. I don't know where you sail and don't know > how many opportunities you have to race, but there is more to learn than > there is time for most of us. Find someone who has some experience to help - > pick his/her brain to build your skills. Maybe let someone else drive so you > can learn the skills that each person on the boat needs to you can coach > other crew later. > > Gary > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Curtis > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:39 AM > 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? > > > > > > > > > > -- “Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.” - Nicholas Monsarrat _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
