Martin,

Wow! wire in the luff 😳 this is for some serious conditions.

And the 5 500 km shipping cost would probably be more expensive than the 
sail...  but thanks for the offer.

Still waiting for a reply from my sailmaker, but I'm pretty sure the feedback 
will be similar to the one I received here.

Bruno, on the right coast looking north



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Le 6 avr. 2021 Ă  22:05, Martin DeYoung 
<martin.deyo...@outlook.com<mailto:martin.deyo...@outlook.com>> a Ă©crit :

Bruno,

I have a 2.2oz “chicken chute” with wire in the luff tapes packed away in 
Calypso’s storage locker.

I have not hoisted it but have stretched it out in a loft to evaluate its 
condition. My guess it was made by Hood back in the 70’s.  It looks like a good 
used low mileage sail with limited UV exposure.  It has very narrow shoulders 
and is small enough in square area it might be entertaining on a 33’ boat.

Let me know if you want to take it for a test sail.  Based on other times/other 
boats when a wire luff chicken chute was called for I expect you would need a 
TWS of 25+ to get this sail to fly well.  Of course, you break it, you bought 
it.

Martin DeYoung
Calypso
1971 C&C 43
Seattle/Port Ludlow

From: Bruno Lachance via CnC-List<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
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Cc: Bruno Lachance<mailto:bruno_lacha...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Stus-List Re: Heavy spinnaker sizing vs medium/light for 33-2

Thank you all for the group wisdom.

To be clear my plan was never to compensate the shorter length of the luff by 
not hoisting the chute to the masthead. I am fully aware of the consequences in 
higher winds. I have seen people do that before when the chute is on the 
smaller side in the attempts to have a fuller shape in light conditions. No big 
deal when it's light, but even then I really doubt it makes the boat faster. It 
sure looks bad!

So back on deck. As a reference, I usually set my pole at about 18-20 inches 
higher that the boom, with a chute 3 ft shorter, i'm worried I would need to 
set the pole too high, but I thought maybe I could flat the sail a little and 
keep the pole lower than usual. Gybing with the pole too high does not look 
appealing neither.

The seller is pretty far so impossible to have a look or confirm measures. He 
says the sail is 40.8 but he measures 44 " by hand" whatever that means. With a 
foot of 21.5, 40.8 makes more sense, so a tad short.

Still tempted by the price...and It is appealing to keep my nice North AirX 600 
crisp for racing.

Bruno Lachance
BĂ©cassine , 33-2
New-Richmond, Qc.





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Le 6 avr. 2021 Ă  17:07, Gary Nylander via CnC-List 
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> a Ă©crit :
Bruno, I tried what you are thinking about. It didn’t work. Dennis is right, 
you do not want three feet of halyard swinging your chute around – it does not 
get pretty. And, if you have the pole hoisted up in the air to get the chute 
hoisted all the way, you have a higher center of effort for that chute and it 
will move around, which is what you don’t want in heavy weather. The ultimate 
trick would be to have a separate halyard attached three feet down the mast 
just for that chute, but on our masthead boats, you will get all tangled up 
with the forestay. Sorry.

Gary – 30-1
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Cc: Dennis C. <capt...@gmail.com<mailto:capt...@gmail.com>>
Subject: Stus-List Re: Heavy spinnaker sizing vs medium/light for 33-2

A heavy weather chute should have narrow shoulders.  It should be fully 
hoisted.  Failure to fully hoist in heavy weather will increase the potential 
for oscillation and loss of control.

While we're on heavy weather spin flying, on Touche', we never ever let the 
center seam cross to the weather side of the forestay.  That is, we prefer a 
slightly reaching trim as opposed to a dead downwind trim.  Trimming the 
chute's center seam to weather of the forestay increases the chances of 
oscillation and ultimately a death roll.

I'd rather broach than do a death roll!

To answer the question, talk to your sailmaker.  This chute sounds a wee bit 
short to me.

  --
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 11:22 AM Joel Aronson via CnC-List 
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote:
Bruno,

Sounds about right.  Just don't hoist the chute to the masthead.

Joel

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 10:42 AM Bruno Lachance via CnC-List 
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote:
Question for the spinnaker gurus of the group:

The light/medium sym spinfor my 33-2 has a luff/leech lenght of 44 ft and a 
foot of 23.3 ft. This is a sail designed for this boat

I'm looking at a used spin that seems to be a heavier cloth, that would be used 
as a S-3. The dimensions are Luff: 40.8 / foot: 21.5




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