Beautifull day for racing or just sailing… about 1.5 to 2 ft seas and 10 to 15 knots of wind..
Crew of Patty, Jim and me.. we raced Angela in Sea Haven ( a O’Day 27) and Orin on La Bon Vie’ (a Beneteau Oceanus 39)
First race we finished about a minute and a half behind La Bon Vie and won on corrected time…
Second race we came in about 5 minutes behind La Bon Vie for second place…
We during the race we played with boat trim and found that sailing her flat seemed to slow her down but heeling more than about 10 degrees also slowed her down.. about a 5 degree heel seemed to be best… Moving one person forward to about the shrouds also increased our speed by a solid 1/4 to 1/2 knot.
Winds during the first race were about 10 knots and we did better at keeping up with the much heavier La Bon Vie… not to mention that for some reason they didn’t unfurl the entire Jib…. Second Race they flew the whole Jib and with slightly higher winds they consistently ran a bit faster than us.. 🙂 waterline length realy paid off for them 🙂 and with the decent winds they had the power to move.
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