[Rhodes22-list] Newbie questions Suppliers/Anchoring/Sail Balance

[Shawn Boles]

Hi Ken:

Thanks for the advice . I may have overstated my concern about lee helm.
The boat sails beautifully.  I was just surprised by lee  vs weather helm.
According  to Mary Lou some R22's have slight lee helm in light airs. I
will look at how I have her ballasted (H2O tank, anchor location etc.).

Cheers,
Shawn

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:29 PM, KenBates <btskend at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Shawn
> I have an 86 with a 180% Genny and it too has Lee Helm at low heel angles.
> by the time we are "well heeled" it is switching to Weather helm and i cant
> prevent it from rounding up even with the tiller in the pit of my
> substantial belly. put one a life jacket, a safety line and one young
> strong
> piece of moving balast and try to tip her over. the result will give you
> much more confidence (avoid a big wave day, that can skew the results)
> Ken
>
> Shawn Boles-4 wrote:
> >
> > Hi All:
> >
> > First, let me thank you for your kind welcome to the list!  On May 30th
> we
> > poured a libation to Poseidon and Aeolus to retire any previous names of
> > our boat and  know her henceforth as  Sweet Baboo. ( I will forward
> > pictures).
> >
> >  As I said I have a lot of questions. I looked in  the archive for
> answers
> > but did not find anything about my first 3 questions:
> >
> > 1. Do you have a favorite source for marine supplies? I just drove 70
> > Miles
> > to the closest West marine store and , frankly, I was not impressed. Nice
> > folks, but not much stock, expensive, and I pay shipping. Surely, there
> is
> > something better.
> >
> > 2.  Anchor rode and storage advice - we sail in a fairly shallow (avg
> > depth
> > 7' max 30') reservoir and want to anchor out for the night. Stan supplied
> > a
> > Danforth  (looks like a 4-6 #) on bow pulpit but no chain/rode.
> >
> >               - What would you recommend? I am thinking of  3/8" Premium
> > Anchor Line, 100', 4,400lb.   with 3-5' of
> >                  chain. Does anyone have picture of how you store/deploy/
> > retrieve your anchor.
> >
> > 3. Lea Helm & Sail Balance. I have only been out a couple of times (rainy
> > season has decided to prolong itself [?]) With 100% main and 100% jib
> > (just
> > ahead of mast) I have a slight lea helm. This gets more pronounced as I
> > unfurl more headsail.
> >
> >                  - is this normal? I am used to slight weather helm.
> > Should
> > I care?
> >                  - what is best adjustment? traveler? mast rake? other?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any advice.
> >
> > Shawn & Melva Boles
> > s/v Sweet Baboo ('86)
> >
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