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Initially Posted - 05/06/2007 :  16:02:39  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
back from a short weekend trip to biscayne bay (Friday, Sat, back sunday) cut short on the promise of bad weather monday (we'll see!)

Anyway, as always, experimented with the sail balance and here's our latest conclusions.
(110% Furling Gib and Original Main Sail)

Close hauled, 10-15knts wind, full main and gib, seas only about a foot+.

We were headed from Black point marina to Elliott Key harbor, close hauled we would not make it in a single tack, so we opted to change destination to Billy's Point which is further south of Elliott key harbor.

As usual, Peggy was 'working' the helm and I gave her a break. Quickly figured the constant swing to weather then drop off and increased heel. So I set the wheel lock and waited.

The boat behaved really well. It would point up for a few moments, then bare off to about 15d of heel and then point up again. The beauty of this was the hands off scenario! It was delightful to just be able to let the boat go. We sailed for over 35 mins without touching the wheel, aside from the swings, we pretty well kept our course.

I was bouyant! Being able to go fwd if need be to adjust the gib sheets etc. was a first for us, it felt really good.

Saturday we took a run south towards the card sount transit, then turned north again to close haul up towards Elliott key for a shower ashore.
Repeated the same process as the day before, this time the boat sailed itself for 45 mins, I was able to move in front of the wheel and play with the jib and main to see if the swings could be lessened.

The admiral got a bit edgy at that point, so I quit while ahead and we tacked into Elliott key, the showers were great, but the bugs took very little time to find Pauls Diner (me!)

The only thing we have done differnt is the additional weight in the bow. The bow still sits a little high (both of us, the generator and extra fuel are all at the stern.)

Now, if I can figure out the trick to reducing the swing to a minimum.

Short, but a great weekend sailing!
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Response Posted - 05/06/2007 :  19:01:00  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by britinusa</i>
<br />The beauty of this was the hands off scenario! It was delightful to just be able to let the boat go. We sailed for over 35 mins without touching the wheel,...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

With an autopilot, you can go hands free all day long!
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Response Posted - 05/07/2007 :  08:42:35  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
I should have noted the extremes of the swings, I would guess they were about 15degrees+/-

Don, I hope to install Arlyns steering mod this summer, then I would consider an autopilot, but with the current play in the steering I'm not sure it would last long.

And... from my reading of Arlyns mod, it also diminishes the rudder slap due to slack in the system.

Paul
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