Goofball_star_dot_etal wrote:
90% of the time here the wind is on-shore with a fetch of 80nm+. In
this case it was off-shore with a fetch of perhaps 3nm. It was
basically flat but breezey. f4-5, 5 in pic.


It doesn't look to me as if the boat is close hauled at all,
more like a broad reach.



I would settle for a close reach. The wind was from the south and the
coast runs SW. It was a broad reach on the way back. The boat was not
entirely under tight control on account of being single-handed with a
camera in one hand.


In this pic right here?
http://www.wareing.dircon.co.uk/images/Wicklow.jpg
It looks to me like the wind is blowing R to L, obliquely
out of the pic; the boat is headed in almost the same
direction although the wake looks to be headed somewhat L to R.

The waves crests look like there is some weight in the wind
but not enough to put popcorn all over the upper part of the
waves.


Hard to say what the boat speed is since you can't see the
stern wave in the pic. I'd have guess less than 9 though, or
the track off the rudder would be more agitated.


Come on, be fair. It is 22ft., how many boats of this general type
plane to windward?

I wasn't trying to be insulting at all, just trying to make
an accurate guess. It's a fun game since we all know how
misleading pictures can be!



.... The most I have done is 12.5kn. on a broad reach
but you get back quick under those conditions.


That's respectable for a 22 ft boat! Especially without a
spinnaker. If you got one, you could set up the wind vane to
steer while you played the chute!


Hmmm... sails look pretty good even if the rig is
unorthodox.... or does everybody in your part of the world
put the bow pulpit halfway up the fore deck?!


No, it is odd. It makes sense though for the design. It is a 30+? year
old boat by Ian Procter like this one:
http://www.naiadhome.com/presto.htm

Thanks for the info. I have seen/sailed a Newbridge
Navigator but none of their other boats. Your boat seems a
bit more performance oriented; Proctor did some great racing
dinghy one-designs.


.... The big genoa wraps around the
outside of the hull http://www.wareing.dircon.co.uk/images/partial.jpg
(mine) closing the gap and increasing the effective aspect ratio.

I bet you could point higher if the sheeting was further
inboard.... OTOH trying to point high in big waves is a
mug's game. Prob'ly better the way you have it, for your
area

It's an interesting boat and your set-up seems very
practical. A shame there aren't some like that around here.

DSK