I think I need to start racing. I could humiliate these clods.
These racers are really stupid to think given wind enough to
reach hull speed on a downwind run that they can go faster
than hull speed by jybing downwind. Sorry, unless your
boat planes off you will take longer to the leeward mark
fooling around with lay lines, polars and any other crap
that you want to come up with than if you just popped a
chute and ran straight to the mark.

Consider this. It only takes ten or twelve knots to drive
my fine vessel to hull speed downwind using a cruising
spinnaker poled out. If these racing wimps only race in
lighter winds than that then they are sissies and bums not
worthy of the name sailor.


"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message ...

"Thomas Stewart" wrote in message

| Boy, what a downwind leg it would be between you and CM!!! Oh Yeah!!!!

Thom it wouldn't even be a contest... I would be so far ahead of Neal he
would be checking to make sure he had unhitched his mooring painters. In a
DDW leg racing in light to moderate winds I'll broad reach and gybe.... in
really gusty winds or wind speeds in excess of 30 knots it's just plain
safer, quicker and easier to wing on wing and avoid not only the stress on
the rig from a gybe but the loss in momentum and speed from the action
itself.

Nonetheless... I so rarely race anymore that it's a non issue. I'll take the
hassle free goose winged set any day.

CM