Bon Soir Bruno - summer is coming! Yes, agreed 100%. I don’t have a setup for the asym so I do it old school, (sock and snatch blocks) which is a bit of a hassle and kind of a deterrent single handed. Great for light air as you say, and magic when those conditions are stable I’ve sailed solo from Toronto to Whitby (35NM) on two occasions, making great time, barely touching the sails, windstar in charge. The asym is straightforward but can be a handful at its limits - A friend and I drag raced for about 20 Nm two summers ago, great photos of each-others bottom paint at times, before we finally reduced sail, much later than we should have. Epic fun. (The 33-2 won of course…;-)).
Andy - after 10 seasons and for my use, that 110-115 Genoa on a furler and the drifter on a sprit and furler would really be the final setup, and safe to manage solo. Bruno - Do you have pics of the setup? I’ll fix the transposition error in the blog…. Dave 33-2 Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:17 PM, Bruno Lachance <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dave, thanks for sharing the measurements. (I think your no1 and 3 are > inverted). > > I understand your most used sail is your 114% (a small no 2 in your > inventory). And I agree that tacking a 140+ genoa is not fun singlehanded and > that a heavily reefed/furled sail is not very efficient. > > My most used sail is a low cut 110, so about same as yours. It is the sail > that mostly live on the furler when cruising and it is fine even in light air > if not in a hurry. On a beam reach or with the wind behind however, I will > hoist my 82 m2 asym on a furler / selden sprit. This a good combo for > cruising and it is a lot of fun and easy to use an asym spinnaker. I think > you do the same on Windstar. I find that sailing with low apparent wind in > light air with a smaller jib/genoa is really painful. Nothing replace sail > area when needed. > > Again, Andrew, it depends of your sailing area: average wind conditions and > the most common sailing angle if you often cruise the same area. > > I can send you pictures of our boat with different sails if you want to see > what they look like on the 33-2 rig. > > Bruno Lachance > Bécassine, 33-2 no 166 > New-Richmond, Qc > > Envoyé de mon iPad > >> Le 2 mars 2022 à 18:30, Dave S via CnC-List <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> >> Customized C&C Cutting Boards available at: >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/cutting_boards >> Hi Andy, >> For some reason I’m not getting list emails reliably… >> I had a new Genoa made and find for my uses that it’s a great compromise. It >> sets well and reefs acceptably. My #3 was older but in good shape like >> yours and it’s the clear winner when the wind is blowing but I found it >> frustrating in lighter air. The 140 was too big for singlehand in most >> conditions and didn’t reef usefully. >> >> Some details here >> >> http://cncwindstar.blogspot.com/2021/01/sail-inventory.html?m=1 >> >> I can send the specs of the headsail if you wish. >> >> Dave 33-2 Windstar >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On Mar 2, 2022, at 11:45 AM, andrew--- via CnC-List >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi everyone thanks for the good points to consider. >>> >>> I’m a roller furling novice and not sure how well genoa “reefing” works. >>> >>> I do have #3 genoa (maybe 100%) which is older but hardly used, and in >>> reasonably good shape. Racing is fairly low key here in Comox and the boat >>> has been kitted out pretty heavily for cruising. I’ve had the boat 4 years >>> now and have done “almost” as much work as Windstar, and zero >>> documentation, with the exception of filing away lots and lots of invoices! >>> >>> I’ll talk to the sail maker (UK) and let you know the decision, and the >>> rationale behind it. >>> >>> Thanks again! >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> Customized C&C Cutting Boards available at: >>> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/cutting_boards >> Hi Andy, >> For some reason I’m not getting list emails reliably… >> I had a new Genoa made and find for my uses that it’s a great compromise. It >> sets well and reefs acceptably. My #3 was older but in good shape like >> yours and it’s the clear winner when the wind is blowing but I found it >> frustrating in lighter air. The 140 was too big for singlehand in most >> conditions and didn’t reef usefully. >> >> Some details here >> >> http://cncwindstar.blogspot.com/2021/01/sail-inventory.html?m=1 >> >> I can send the specs of the headsail if you wish. >> >> Dave 33-2 Windstar >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Mar 2, 2022, at 11:45 AM, andrew--- via CnC-List <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi everyone thanks for the good points to consider. >>> >>> I’m a roller furling novice and not sure how well genoa “reefing” works. >>> >>> I do have #3 genoa (maybe 100%) which is older but hardly used, and in >>> reasonably good shape. Racing is fairly low key here in Comox and the boat >>> has been kitted out pretty heavily for cruising. I’ve had the boat 4 years >>> now and have done “almost” as much work as Windstar, and zero >>> documentation, with the exception of filing away lots and lots of invoices! >>> >>> I’ll talk to the sail maker (UK) and let you know the decision, and the >>> rationale behind it. >>> >>> Thanks again! >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> Customized C&C Cutting Boards available at: >>> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com/cutting_boards
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