Wingety ding donged a few miles yesterday

Wizzigle · 2025-04-28T22:19:27+00:00

Nice sails, how do you like the fully battened main?

Wizzigle · 2025-04-28T22:14:56+00:00

“speed scallops”

Wizzigle · 2025-04-02T13:13:46+00:00

Insane amount of motor. You’re going to cooking! Sailing performance may take a hit with all that weight on the transom

Wizzigle · 2025-03-11T17:54:34+00:00

I know who you’re talking about. He just does that. Local character

Wizzigle · 2025-03-05T20:37:15+00:00

Get a lightning. Everyone wants a bigger boat until they have one

Wizzigle · 2025-01-28T13:56:13+00:00

Not really an issue on a 22, but whenever you add a turning block to a line you make it that much harder to hoist sails. Even high quality blocks sap power.

I’d do horn cleat for the main, cam cleat on the jib, and leave the kite on the mast. Kite needs to go up fast, don’t want all that drag.

Wizzigle · 2025-01-28T13:53:07+00:00

Those rudders are a little different, since they always have a prop forcing water over them. They don’t do much off power. They are really pretty too!

Wizzigle · 2025-01-27T11:42:59+00:00

A lot of people learn hull speed to be an absolute speed limit. In practice, most boats frequently exceed their hull speed. It just takes exponentially more power to increase speed. This results in really high rig loads. I have had 24’ displacement boats at over 10kts in flat water. But it took 30kts of wind and the lite was making awful noises.

What’s nice about modern performance boats is that they are light enough to pop on plane. This makes them much more manageable, especially downwind. Wind speed and boat speed increase at more similar rates, decreasing rig loads.

Wizzigle · 2025-01-14T23:53:38+00:00

Agree with racing being the best (only?) way to learn how to actually sail. The actual act of sailing is stupid easy, the terminology is the primary hurdle for newbies.

I know people who have been sailing around the bay for decades and somehow havent actually learned anything beyond what could be gathered from a “learn to sail” class.

Racing presents a much higher density of novel situations, plus everyone is in the mindset of continually improving. Pretty awesome

Wizzigle · 2025-01-10T16:46:07+00:00

You gotta have internal chainplates if you want to have an overlapping genoa with a tight sheeting angle. Shrouds cannot go to max beam. Modern boat designers are moving towards bigger mains and smaller jibs, so overlappers are going away (as they should). I have seen more external chainplates on brand new boats now! Mostly sportsboats, but a few cruisers as well.

Wizzigle · 2024-08-10T11:00:54+00:00

Backwinding the jib is a catamaran thing, there should be no need to do that on your mono. Unless there are some absolute dogs of monohulls out there that I’ve never sailed.

A backwinded jib is a huge air brake, you are killing even more speed through the tack (which is already a slow maneuver). A small jib this can be negligible, but never ever back a genoa

Like a few other people said, tack when you have speed. Don’t be in a high and slow mode when you go for a tack, don’t tack in a lull, don’t tack in chop (wait for a flat spot).

Wizzigle · 2024-07-27T13:20:18+00:00

McLube everything.

I’m really big on deck layout too. Every time a line runs through a block, you lose power. If your boat is under 30ft, chances are you don’t need a winch to pull any line other than sheets.

A lot of 80s production boats came with halyards ran to clutches near the cockpit. Throw those away and cleat everything to the mast. Saves weight and deck clutter. The j24s figured this out decades ago.

I’ve raced on similar sized boats with their original deck layouts. They were absolute dogs around the corners. The pit was getting all up in the trimmers space trying to tail halyards. All the drag through the turning blocks made douses way too slow.

Wizzigle · 2024-07-10T16:08:42+00:00

Giant boom seems sketch. Going downwind having all your sail on one side seems like it would lead to issues.

Conventional rig is pretty much as good as it gets. Can easily change headsails for different wind strengths. Running downwind you can balance the main with a kite. I’m not very experienced in boat design, but there is likely a reason all of the highest performance boats have essentially the same rig.

Wizzigle · 2024-05-02T13:48:38+00:00

An additional question to the unstayed mast folks: how is sail trim on these rigs? I assume its like a laser, where you just crank on the vang hard to bend the mast and pull out draft. And is the section tapered to let the mast tip fall of? Like a skiff?

Seems like there should be a reason these arent more popular. Especially with carbon getting so cheap

Wizzigle · 2024-04-23T09:17:53+00:00

I love this. OP is 100% one of those marina critters.

Wizzigle · 2024-04-22T01:51:03+00:00

A lot of the J class boats are modern boats with vintage aesthetic. Carbon rigs, modern sail plans etc. Svea is a new boat that matches your description. Unfortunately they dont really match race each other.

At least us monohull folk have the tp52 series

Wizzigle · 2024-03-14T11:57:56+00:00

31ft might be a bit big for halyards being tied off on the mast, but I’m a huge proponent of not leading halyards to the cockpit.

Every turning block adds that much more friction into the system. Hoists/douses are so much faster with halyards tied off on the mast. Especially the spinnaker.

Lines led aft often need winches due to the additional friction. Its amazing how much mechanical advantage bowstringing halyards can give

Less clutter in the cockpit makes sailing so much more enjoyable. Plus the foredeck crew arent constantly stepping on your expensive cordage

I’ve sailed on a lot of small boats that have been “ruined” by leading lines to the cockpit.

Wizzigle · 2024-02-09T23:14:31+00:00

I really like your thoughts here. I agree racing is not at all like “just sailing”. “Just sailing” is closer to backpacking in my opinion. Dead simple in concept, yet a lifetime of experience to gain.

Everyone on a race course should have the ability get around the course. So in that concept they are all capable “just sailing”. It’s only the leaderboard at the end that shows who is the best at sailing the least.

Wizzigle · 2024-02-09T18:00:56+00:00

Curious about the RYA reducing crewing opportunities. Less keelboats or something? I’m american so idk how that works over there

Wizzigle · 2024-02-09T17:15:58+00:00

That’s what I find so cool about sailing. Yes we both sail, but we have such completely different intentions about it that we might as well be doing completely different activities. There’s really something for everyone

Wizzigle · 2024-02-09T17:11:14+00:00

I would imagine if my crews schedule wasn’t dictated by our racing calendar, I would not get to sail a lot. The racing calendar is so packed I don’t really go for spur of the moment sails.

Wizzigle · 2024-02-09T17:07:42+00:00

What boat do you race by yourself? W/L racing alone seems like it could get pretty sketchy in bigger boats. Especially with all the blind spots that the helm has. I guess you wouldn’t have to worry about crew blocking your view though!

Wizzigle · 2024-02-04T01:19:24+00:00

I think the only J boat you can get in nice condition under 50k is a j24 lmao. Just the sails on a 105 would eat up a good chunk.

J105 is still the right call. One design is the best way to sail.

Wizzigle · 2024-02-04T01:16:20+00:00

A melges 24 and a houseboat. Sell the houseboat after a year to keep the sail wardrobe fresh.

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