[Rhodes22-list] Oops - here are the pics I described Re: Single-handed sail video

[Rick Lange]

The full main works fine up to around 15 knots.  Above that, all you
need is the genoa without the pole.
> I guess you'd have to have
Main inner mast furling to be able to pull it 
> out half way or
less to direct wind into genoa on opposite side, no?? 
> Guess it
wouldn't work on our around the boom furling. of the main? Any 
>
advice?? 
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> 
From:
Rick Lange<mailto:SloopBlueHeron at ISP.Com> 
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> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list]
Oops - here are the pics I described Re: 
> Single-handed sail
video 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi
ML, 
> It looks like you were poling the UPS. I pole the genoa 
> instead to direct wind into the UPS. 
> If the wind is not
coming 
> directly from behind, I set the UPS opposite. Like, if
the wind is 
> blowing more from the port side of the transom, I
set the UPS off the 
> starboard bow to keep it full. 
>
That way, I manage to make wind speed 
> or hull speed, whichever
is less. But only up to about 10 knots of wind. 
> Above that, I
use the main to direct wind into genoa and furl the 
> UPS. 
> Rick 
> > I seem to have attached the wrong pics. Here

> are the two I meant to send. 
> > 
> > ML

> > 
> > At 08:10 AM 3/13/2008, you wrote: 
> >>Seems to be a 
> common thing for passage-makers
who make long downwind 
> >>passages. I first read about it
in some of the earlier accounts 
> of 
>
>>circumnavigators like the Hiscocks, Pardeys and John 
>
Caldwell's 
> >>Trekka Around the World. 
> >>

> >>Googling "twin headsails" turned up this
excerpt from 
> a book on sail 
> >> trim: 
>
>>http://books.google.com/books?id=pDpaiXWvx6MC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=twin+headsail&source=web&ots=qug7M1-hRu&sig=lYWOSONF85TXgeQVg7-Oie8DAlo&hl=en

> 
> >> 
> >>We've actually tried
with our UPS and the 175 
> on a July trip back 
>
>>from a Baltimore baseball game. I've 
> attached a couple
of pictures - 
> >>both from the stern rail - 
> one
looking over the bimini forward and 
> >>the other looking
up 
> at the masthead. Couldn't get far enough away to 
>
>>get a good 
> pic. If I recall correctly, the boat sailed
OK rolling no 
> >>more than you would downwind wing on wing
and it may have been a 
> bit 
> >>easier to keep
the sails full. It did not seem any 
> faster though it 
>
>>might have been because there was more sail 
> out.
Checking the log, I 
> >>see that we were only making about

> 3 knots in about 5-6 knots of 
> >>wind. DDW is
not a favorite 
> way to sail but it was where we wanted to 
> >>go. We later 
> furled all sails and motored as the
winds became 
> >> 
> intermittent. 
>
>> 
> >>Mary Lou 
> >>1991 R22 
> Fretless 
> >>Rock Hall, MD 
> >
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