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Default An actual sailing topic
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 08:18:57 -0700 (PDT), wrote
this crap:

How many times do you change headsails during buoy races?

Bloody Horvath wrote:
Are you talking upwind-downwind? Around the marks? Or around the
islands?

Answer: None. depends on the wind. Really depends on the weather.


Sorry, must be different terminology. "Buoy races" = around marks,
generally races of not more than ten miles or 3 hours. Generally the
races include reaches, not just W-L. I'm not planning on doing any
distances races, ie longer point-to-point races that may run offshore
and/or overnight.

Buoy races can be upwind-downwind, olympic triangle, and around marks.
I've done races that are less than an hour, and some that take several
days. And on the longer races, the weather changes, and you have to
make sail changes.

I agree. But I've found that the more halyards you have, the better.
Hell, I'd have three main halyards if I could.

On those rare occasions when a crew loses a halyard, I let them know
just how bad a F-U it is.... boats & lives have been lost that way.
Haven't done it myself for many years but it's always possible to make
a mistake.

It's also possible to go up the mast after a halyard, even on a small
boat. I went up the Lightning mast... while sailing to windward...

DSK


Not me. My mast is sixty feet tall.




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