My body can still feel the effects of this past weekend's regatta. While we were the slowest boat, this was a handicap event, so I felt we stood a chance of winning a coffee mug. No such luck. We were beaten by an F18, a NACRA 570 and an A-Cat. They sailed up to their potential. The F16 capsizes and pitchpoles were a thing of beauty. We stayed upright.
My son and I were fine on the downwind legs, in fact, we did well. It was the upwind, in 12 knots NW gusting 18 - 20, with very short (and hard) lake chop. Every time we cracked off, we came close to being blown over in gusty conditions and capsizing, so we had to pinch quite a bit, even though we had one of us out on the wire. So it became a question of speed vs stability.
Any thoughts how to improve our upwind speed? One suggestion was two on the wire..... Should we have loosened the main traveler by 4"?
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_________________ 2015 H16, with spin, SOLD 1989 Hobie SX18 Sail # 1947 "In Theory..." 'Only two things are infinite, the universe, and human stupidity. But I'm not sure about the former.'
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