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Heart of Gold...Best Season ever!
We're just having such a wonderful season of sailing. I don't think
we've had a single windless day and our short cruises have been fantastic. Block Island is on the menu is a few weeks and a few other shorter runs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDm3WZcK4I Hope everyone is having fun on the water! RB 35s5 NY |
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:28:54 -0700 (PDT), "Capt. Rob"
wrote: We're just having such a wonderful season of sailing. I don't think we've had a single windless day and our short cruises have been fantastic. Block Island is on the menu is a few weeks and a few other shorter runs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDm3WZcK4I Hope everyone is having fun on the water! Nice video of Western Long Island Sound but I'm concerned that you will get a short life out of that high tech mainsail if you keep luffing it like that. |
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"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
... We're just having such a wonderful season of sailing. I don't think we've had a single windless day and our short cruises have been fantastic. Block Island is on the menu is a few weeks and a few other shorter runs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDm3WZcK4I Hope everyone is having fun on the water! RB 35s5 NY You'd go faster if you didn't luff the mainsail and if you got rid of the wind-up genny and used a hanked-on, 100% jib for a more balanced pull considering the wind speed. Ten years of sailing and you've yet to learn basic sail trim. Pathetic, dude, pathetic! Wilbur Hubbard |
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On Jul 19, 12:55*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:28:54 -0700 (PDT), "Capt. Rob" wrote: We're just having such a wonderful season of sailing. I don't think we've had a single windless day and our short cruises have been fantastic. Block Island is on the menu is a few weeks and a few other shorter runs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDm3WZcK4I Hope everyone is having fun on the water! Nice video of Western Long Island Sound but I'm concerned that you will get a short life out of that high tech mainsail if you keep luffing it like that. We've used that kevlar main for 3 seasons and this year it will be probably retired for a conventional main from Doyle. It's been a great sail, but I think I'll save it for when we sell the boat. Sails get used and get beat up and get replaced. It's a small price to pay for all the fun. Not long after the video clip we furled up the genoa and sailed great under just the main on a close reach. I love fractional rigs like ours! RB 35s5 NY |
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Heart of Gold...Best Season ever!
You'd go faster if you didn't luff the mainsail and if you got rid of the wind-up genny and used a hanked-on, 100% jib for a more balanced pull considering the wind speed. Ten years of sailing and you've yet to learn basic sail trim. Pathetic, dude, pathetic! Wilbur Hubbard You can always tells an armchair sailor from the real thing by their silly comments...and Wilbur is certainly sitting in a mighty big chair! Wilbur....does not know why we're periodically (GENTLY!) luffing because he does not know the conditions, destination/course or anything! He doesn't even know the size of the genoa or that Suzanne is playing the helm. He suggests that we get rid of a furling system even though we sail with children 95% of the time. And the dumb comment about the main? We've beat on it for 3 years and it was bought USED! So when will it go???? Hmmmmm? Poor Wilbur further fouls his Depends by ignoring the followup comment that we rolled the genoa and sailed with main alone and is incapable of deducing what that means! Oh yeah! Experts everywhere! We're sailing at 3:00 today...and you can bet a million that poor Wilbur will be posting away while we sail!!!! Doh! RB 35s5 NY |
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"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
... snipped some Poor Wilbur further fouls his Depends by ignoring the followup comment that we rolled the genoa and sailed with main alone and is incapable of deducing what that means! And just what do you STILL fail to understand about the virtue of a *balanced* sailplan? Anytime a real sailor sees a yacht proceeding under main alone or under jib alone it tells a tale of ineptitude. Wilbur Hubbard |
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Heart of Gold...Best Season ever!
And just what do you STILL fail to understand about the virtue of a *balanced* sailplan? Anytime a real sailor sees a yacht proceeding under main alone or under jib alone it tells a tale of ineptitude. Wilbur Hubbard Balanced sailplan??? In increasingly gusty conditions that had us putting the genny to bed minutes later? Where are we headed and why? What is the VMG? Better still, what is wrong with our VMG? When your sailplan IS unbalanced when exactly should you take action and why? Because you really can't answer ANY of these questions relavent to the video clip, why embarrass yourself again and again? In 40 minutes crew will be here and you'll still be scratching yourself and planning your evening of TV. RB 35s5 NY |
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"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
... And just what do you STILL fail to understand about the virtue of a *balanced* sailplan? Anytime a real sailor sees a yacht proceeding under main alone or under jib alone it tells a tale of ineptitude. Wilbur Hubbard Balanced sailplan??? In increasingly gusty conditions that had us putting the genny to bed minutes later? Where are we headed and why? What is the VMG? Better still, what is wrong with our VMG? When your sailplan IS unbalanced when exactly should you take action and why? Because you really can't answer ANY of these questions relavent to the video clip, why embarrass yourself again and again? In 40 minutes crew will be here and you'll still be scratching yourself and planning your evening of TV. RB 35s5 NY An unbalanced sailplan requires the rudder (and helmsman) to work harder trying to counteract the unbalanced forces on the keel. It reduces efficiency. It makes it harder to maneuver efficiently and safely. Increasingly gusty conditions require smaller *sails*. Reef the mainsail AND change to a smaller headsail if the winds pipe up so much that your existing sail area is too large. This will maintain a balanced sailplan for the conditions at hand and will keep the rudder working at maximum efficiency with reduced effort. Any FOOL who strikes the headsail because it decides to blow about 20 knots and operates under mainsail alone is no sailor. If your stupid, wind-up genny is overpowered then wind the damned thin up about halfway and this will reduce your sail area. Isn't that supposed to be one of the benefits of the abominations? Along with this you should take a reef in on the mainsail. The fact of the matter is a sloop sailing under main alone in brisk winds will have excessive weather helm and reduced helm control. If you haven't learned these simple facts in the ten years or so you've been trying to learn to sail then you're just plain stupid and hopeless. Sometime when you have some spare time at home on the computer try looking up a couple of sailing yacht terms. 1) center of effort 2) center of lateral resistance Then try as best you can with that defective brain of yours to apply the concepts to an unbalanced sailplan. Dope! Wilbur Hubbard |
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On Jul 19, 2:25*pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote: "Capt. Rob" wrote in message ... And just what do you STILL fail to understand about the virtue of a *balanced* sailplan? Anytime a real sailor sees a yacht proceeding under main alone or under jib alone it tells a tale of ineptitude. Wilbur Hubbard Balanced sailplan??? In increasingly gusty conditions that had us putting the genny to bed minutes later? Where are we headed and why? What is the VMG? Better still, what is wrong with our VMG? When your sailplan IS unbalanced when exactly should you take action and why? Because you really can't answer ANY of these questions relavent to the video clip, why embarrass yourself again and again? In 40 minutes crew will be here and you'll still be scratching yourself and planning your evening of TV. RB 35s5 NY An unbalanced sailplan requires the rudder (and helmsman) to work harder trying to counteract the unbalanced forces on the keel. It reduces efficiency. It makes it harder to maneuver efficiently and safely. Increasingly gusty conditions require smaller *sails*. Reef the mainsail AND change to a smaller headsail if the winds pipe up so much that your existing sail area is too large. This will maintain a balanced sailplan for the conditions at hand and will keep the rudder working at maximum efficiency with reduced effort. Any FOOL who strikes the headsail because it decides to blow about 20 knots and operates under mainsail alone is no sailor. If your stupid, wind-up genny is overpowered then wind the damned thin up about halfway and this will reduce your sail area. Isn't that supposed to be one of the benefits of the abominations? Along with this you should take a reef in on the mainsail. The fact of the matter is a sloop sailing under main alone in brisk winds will have excessive weather helm and reduced helm control. If you haven't learned these simple facts in the ten years or so you've been trying to learn to sail then you're just plain stupid and hopeless. Sometime when you have some spare time at home on the computer try looking up a couple of sailing yacht terms. 1) center of effort 2) center of lateral resistance Then try as best you can with that defective brain of yours to apply the concepts to an unbalanced sailplan. *Dope! Wilbur Hubbard Hilarious...Here I sit aboard my boat and the guy watching re-runs of the Facts of Life is trying to sound important. You have NO CLUE about sailing a fractional rig like ours...that much is obvious. One of the benefits of such a rig is that you can roll the genny and sail along quite nicely under the big main...which is exactly what we did at a very comfortable 5 knots. Which children aboard this is a huge advantage over most mastheads. A 35s5 does just sail well under main alone, it sails GREAT. While other boats fell off and struggled we passed Hart Island within an hour. Like I said....you are CLUELESS. A real sailor (which you will never be) chooses the right set for conditions and crew. You have demonstrated, by ignoring both, that you are not a real sailor. Oh...and the "optimal" set would have been a reefed main and the blade, but you're too ignorant to do anything more than suggest roller-reefing the genny, which is far from optimal when pointing. CLUELESS is what you are. Before even suggesting anything anyone with half a brain would have asked what the conditions were overall, who was aboard and what the sail inventory was. But fool that you are you made a load of ASS-sumptions and now you're knee deep in your own idiocy. But the best part? Winds are light now at about 7-8 knots, but building and I'm going sailing after I shut this notebook! Have fun, LUBBER LOSER! Real sailors actually go SAILING! Enjoy the movie! Bwahahahahhahahhahahhahhaha! RB 35s5 NY |
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