DSK wrote:

Walt wrote:

Here are some from about a year ago. Me and 100 of my closest friends.
I'm in there somewhere if you know where to look.

http://www.albacore.ca/2005canadians/pics1.html

Wow that looks like fun, Walt!

There are some fleets of Albacores racing on the Chesapeake, we've
gotten mixed in with them. They look like fun boats if you don't insist
on a spinnaker...

Well, actually you can put a spinaker on them, it's just not class legal
for racing. I've been thinking about hoisting a kite just for fun one of
these days. There are some old 470 kites hanging around the boathouse
that should work acceptably well.


One thing I noticed about the racing pics, in most of them there are big
differences in vang tension. Do you play the vang off the wind? In most
boats, especially in waves, the vang is a throttle all unto itself.

Yes, optimal speed off the wind is obtained by playing the vang . The
better teams sail with the crew holding the jib sheet in one hand and
the vang in the other. I'm not on one of the better teams, but I do try
to play it somewhat. Although, mostly my strategy in the planing
reaches is along the lines of "hang on tight and try to remember to
breathe."

The 16-vang is de-rigeure these days, and you have to be able to adjust
it without moving in from the rail.

//Walt