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Best 34 foot blue water cruiser
"rhys" wrote in message ... On 26 Mar 2004 11:53:18 -0800, (Frank Maier) wrote: I have a sloop, but one of my favourite points of sail is a beam reach using a No. 3 on a pendant and my barely used, wire luff "genoa staysail", a big light thing the original owner evidently couldn't figure out. I had to reference a brilliant 1975 book called "Sail Power" by Wally Ross to learn how to set the thing. (It involved the toerails!) But in ten knots, that amount of sail will trounce even the biggest No. 1 and mainsail combo. I have waxed poetic about the genoa staysail many times in this forum. I think if people actually discovered how useful these things were the cutter rig would become deriguer again ;=) It really can't be beat on a close reach (except by maybe a code zero), and if you're cruising it's a great sail in light to moderate wind. The GS is hanked on above the heavy staysail, and when the wind increases the GS comes off pretty quickly and the heavy is hoisted. Beats the heck out of firing up the noisemaker (particulalry when it's warm out). I have found in the light stuff that if you give up and fire up the engine, it normally stays on. But, if you have good sails that are easy to change you stay involved in the sailing side and work your way through the variable winds. Matt |
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