Our 1970 Redwing 35 (C&C 35-1) came with a boat load of sails. It was a
campaign boat for the Chi-Mac, sailing under the name Red Pepper. We
just took a Reacher, Lapper, Storm Jib, #1 and #3 in to Sea Bags of
Maine. We are getting custom bags made from the #1 and #3 with the sail
numbers. The rest we just traded for stock bags. Next up will be a
staysail and a banana staysail. I still have more sails tucked away in
the rafters and a 3/4 oz Spinnaker and a 1.5 oz Spanker hanging. I gave
the 1/2 Spinnaker to a lister that I raced with (C&C 36) and I am
keeping the 1/2 oz drifter. We still break out the Drifter on light
wind days. Works well with our C&C 35-3.
Neil Schiller
1983 C&C 35-3, #028, "Grace"
Whitehall, Michigan
On 11/4/2022 10:31 AM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List wrote:
My boat sails quite well with just the genoa. Prior to roller furling
this was a pain, wind changes were sail changes, but now it makes life
easy cruising 😊
Joe
Coquina
Ps – back in the day the 170s were not exotic racing sails, they were
just the normal light air sail. They worked (and still work) just fine
in the light stuff, the biggest issue was seeing around them. I almost
t-boned a humpback whale that was napping on the surface out of my
view on the low side, the whale exhaled and sank just enough for us to
glide over him. He was not happy to be disturbed though, he swam over
to ANOTHER boat and did a big jump to spray them LOL
