Judy,
While it certainly won’t apply to a C27’s keel I had a friend with a wing keel C22 that swore in ultra light wind a wing keel would always turn. We all chuckled until we got a look at his keel on a trailer a couple of years later. The lead alloy stub of the keel was indeed bent 10° to 15° so the wing was no longer level. The owner who was all over doing a technical tuning of the mast just never looked. Phil From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Judith Blumhorst, DC Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IC27A] Boat points much higher on a starboard tack than on a port tack Or the keel is crooked and really far off the centerline ;) ... just joking, that's not likely. It would have been VERY noticable to the eye when the boat was hauled. Are you sure you're not being set or lifted by the current on one tack more than the other? Seriously, the first thing to do is check your "instruments". What are you using to indicate how high you are pointing? I wouldn't expect to see a drastic difference from one tack to the other if the mast is slightly off from vertical. If it were grossly off vertical, you might see a difference.... on my boat the keel is slightly off vertical, maybe 1 or 2 degrees, which is enough to see when she's hauled out. It doesn't make squat worth of difference from one tack to another. Most Catalina's list more to one side than the other anyway... Fair winds, Judy B 1977 C27 TR #3459 "Bijou" http://www.blumhorst.com _____ From: michael glanz <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, May 27, 2010 12:04:12 PM Subject: Re: [IC27A] Boat points much higher on a starboard tack than on a port tack Your shrouds are not equal length or your sheets are attached at different points on the tracks or both. Get a rig tuning guide or have a rigger do it correctly. --- On Wed, 5/26/10, Michael <mlong9...@aol. com> wrote: From: Michael <mlong9...@aol. com> Subject: [IC27A] Boat points much higher on a starboard tack than on a port tack To: ic...@yahoogroups. com Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 5:56 PM Any thoughts on this? Remedies, etc? Thanks, Michael ------------ --------- --------- ------ Yahoo! Groups Links
