Kim Whitmyre
07-07-2007, 10:24 PM
My son and I went out in Vaea today: 14-15 knots of breeze, with 2-3' sea/swell state. Bumpy due to the wind wave component:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1296/750635735_d9edf77d82_b.jpg
On a close reach we were doing 9 knots +, fun! But it was wet due to the sea state, lots of water over the deck due to Vaea bouncing over the wind waves.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1147/750635751_ab3565c390_b.jpg
This is the 130% jib: I should have put the 110% jib up as it works better to windward in such breeze. This 130% may actually be a tad large: the luff is practically the same length as the forestay, so when things start to stretch, I run out of hoist on the halyard. Another reason to run the 110% in anything over 12 knots of breeze.
We had to play dodge'em with the endless stream of freighters entering the L.A. Harbor today. No sooner had we put one on our starboard side, in order to tack behind it, than another one would come steaming up, blowing its horn. . .Thus we never made it over to the Transpac starting line off Palos Verdes. That's PV in the background of the jib picture.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1296/750635735_d9edf77d82_b.jpg
On a close reach we were doing 9 knots +, fun! But it was wet due to the sea state, lots of water over the deck due to Vaea bouncing over the wind waves.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1147/750635751_ab3565c390_b.jpg
This is the 130% jib: I should have put the 110% jib up as it works better to windward in such breeze. This 130% may actually be a tad large: the luff is practically the same length as the forestay, so when things start to stretch, I run out of hoist on the halyard. Another reason to run the 110% in anything over 12 knots of breeze.
We had to play dodge'em with the endless stream of freighters entering the L.A. Harbor today. No sooner had we put one on our starboard side, in order to tack behind it, than another one would come steaming up, blowing its horn. . .Thus we never made it over to the Transpac starting line off Palos Verdes. That's PV in the background of the jib picture.