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CM

"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
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| What's going on Neal, did you forget to take your meds again?
|
| Half the time you're saying that gybing downwind never works, and half the
time you're
| saying it works if you're going slower than hull speed.
|
| You claim that you watched the America's Cup on TV, and they always ran
directly to the
| downwind mark; now in uk.rec.sailing you're saying you never watch TV.
Anyone that
| watched the Cup matches knows they gybed through significant angles
downwind.
|
| Last year you wrote that 10 knots winds were so light you had to motor
both ways on your
| Bahamas trip; now you claiming you do hull speed in 10 knots.
|
| You also wrote the only excuse for running an engine was light air, but on
your trip you
| frequently motorsailed against strong headwinds.
|
| So what's going on here, Neal? It would seem that there is a complete
disconnect between
| the real world and what you write.
|
|
| "Simple Simon" wrote in message
| ...
| The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
|
| Sailing the straight line is faster downwind unless the winds
| are light and fluky. Given any decent wind the boat with
| chute going directly from point to point will beat some
| geek chasing lay lines and looking at polar predictions
| every time. That's a fact. I suggest you go watch a few
| more races and you will see just what I mean.
|
| "Thom Stewart" wrote in message
| ...
| My Friend Neal,
|
| Please don't try racing. At times you are enough embarrassement to the
| ASA without proving it as a fact. Besides you can't race with those
| potted plants sitting on your self. stay on your mooring.
|
| If you know anything about anything, the rating on the "Banana Boat"
| would be so slow you'd have to race in the cruising class. That my
| friend in a class that doesn't allow Flying Sails. For your
information
| your Assy. Spinn is a flying sail. Not allowed. However, that blown
out
| Main of yours might work as a good downwind Chute :^)
|
| Now, about "AM CUPPERS" going downwind. Neal, If you've ever watch
the
| races, you've must have seen them turn the weather mark where one
vessel
| will choose a Gybe SET and the other will choose a BEAR AWAY SET.
Even
| with SPINNAKERS they are working on wind ANGLES for their downwind
runs.
| They know which way the wind is blowing. They send crew up the mast to
| assure this. Why Oh Seaman Supreme, does this happen?
|
| Also, If you have an ASSY you must also be aware that is an off wind
| reaching sail. Even poled out it is more efficient cracked off dead
| downwind, aren't you?
|
| Ole Thom
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