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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. Spare spinnaker halyard(s) would be nice but I don't think it's going to happen with this mast. Frac rig, internal halyards... it's not a closely controlled one-design like a J-24, but there are limits to how many holes I can cut in the mast. I agree. But I've found that the more halyards you have, the better. Hell, I'd have three main halyards if I could. You could have three main halyards if you wanted them bad enough. 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 |
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