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Re: Heavy Air Trim/Setup
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02/07/01 02:46 PM
02/07/01 02:46 PM
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Bob Rutsch
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On Bebop, we change to the #2 at about 20 apparent and the #3 at 24, since our crew is usually only about 1200 lbs. From 18 up, mainsheet is as tight as you can get without hooking the upper batten, outhaul and cunningham on, vang pulled on with the main trimmed. I play the traveler, controlling heel and helm pressure, constantly talking to my skipper, and dropping it any time the helm loads up. We don't vang sheet until dropping the traveler has no effect. But, usually with the traveler all the way down, the main is barely working. I don't like to feather until we are thinking about a reef and #3 at 30. If you feel slow with the #3 blade, ease it and inch or two, drop the traveler and put the bow down. Strapping the #3 is slow.
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Re: Heavy Air Trim/Setup
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02/12/01 04:25 PM
02/12/01 04:25 PM
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Posts: 13 Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada
John Colpitts
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Alan, you don't mention rig set-up. We tighten the rig to about 2000lbs upper and lower, if i think it will be really gusty I may shorten the headstay an inch from max, this seems to allow better control of headstay tension and let's us flatten the entrance of the blade a bit better. (shorten the headstay BEFORE you tighten the shrouds!!!) We often sail with 1200lbs crew, and some of our crew won't hike, so we hurt in the heavy stuff too.
Mark, you must have a later boat with 3/8" shrouds - according to my Loos gauge (and the tuning guide, by the way) the max tension on our 1981 model with the 1/4" shrouds is ~2000lbs. Am I missing something? Most of the local J/29's use the 3000lb range I think, they all have 3/8" rigging.
John in Halifax
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