I would suggest taking a couple of Quaaludes until you relax a bit, and that anxiety goes away. I can only imagine the feeling you must have had when he rolled that Asymmetrical out and just left you in the dust. But probably what will happen, is that there are going to be questions about Sprint length, The Asymmetrical, and whether you can jump back and forth between Asymmetrical and Symmetrical without an additional penalty. Then they might change the rules that may make him sad. On our fleet, they allowed 12in, until I brought it up that that didn't take into account different lengths of boats, and the amount of space you need for an asymmetric furler on a larger boat. Then they made it a percentage of length. But only to a certain length.
Also, how often do you have triangles, which it sounds like this race was?. in our local fleet, we used to have triangles equally interspersed with windward leeward's, but then whoever runs the fleet changed it mostly to Windward Leeward's, which screws everything up for our type of boats. Obviously the people running ours have newer boats like J boats and Shocks and that sort of thing. If you can count on triangles, The Asymmetrical might make sense. On my 39, we got the biggest bang for the buck by adding a foot onto the boom, and a large Roach. That really helped downwind and off the wind. That only cost 6 seconds, but was well worth it. Bill Coleman Erie Pa -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Stafford via CnC-List Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 12:23 PM To: cnc-list Cc: Randy Stafford Subject: Stus-List Tacking Down an Asym on a 30 MK I Listers- A guy in my yacht club has started an arms race by adding an asym with a top-down furler to his Ranger 28. Wednesday night in light air I beat him to the windward mark by a minute or two, then he hoisted his asym and dropped me like a bad habit. He beat me by five minutes corrected time in a one-hour race despite spotting me 12 sec/mile with his new adjusted rating (demonstrating yet again that ratings don’t necessarily account for performance differences). It was an eye-opening demonstration. So now I’m thinking I need an asym to compete. I know a guy who flew one on a 30 MK I. He welded a bracket forward of the stem, to fasten a tack line block, and had a sock instead of a furler. If I want to compete with this Ranger 28, I’ll have to add two furlers (one on the forestay and one for the asym) to be able to set sails as fast as him. So I can’t just shackle an asym tack line block to the spare headsail shackle on the stem, and hoist/douse the asym using a sock. I need a tack point forward of the stem to accommodate a furler. Thus my question to you listers: any experience with adding a bowsprit or bracket etc. to your C&C for tacking down an asymmetrical spinnaker? I did some reading last night on after-market bowsprits (e.g. Selden), but of course wanted to check with the collective wisdom on Stu’s list. Any advice or recommendations? Thanks, Randy Stafford S/V Grenadine C&C 30 MK I #79 Ken Caryl, CO _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray _______________________________________________ Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray
