[Rhodes22-list] comfortable with wind

[Mary Lou Troy]

Wow. Nice job. How big were the waves?

Is your wind gauge set to mph of knots?

I think the highest we've been sailing in was 18 to 20 knots. I 
remember it as being pretty stressful - mainly because of the size of 
the waves and forces involved.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD

At 02:55 PM 9/8/2012, you wrote:
>There has been discussion on the list about sailing on windy days. 
>Jay Friedland and I just came in after sailing in sustained wind of 
>23 to 28 mph wind. I know it was at least 28 because that was the 
>highest speed my handheld registered for the brief time I could try 
>to check the wind. I assume it was higher at some point, but when I 
>held it up, the meter moved between those numbers for maybe 20 to 30 seconds.
>We had the boom at the low level. The Main reefed so that the 2's on 
>the R 22 were split with only one showing and about  1/3 of a 135 
>jib.  With the weight of two people the boat handled fine. It was 
>not a sail for the timid or a novice. You have to be able to deal 
>with all sorts of forces and potentials for problems, so I repeat, 
>this was not a sail for a beginner, but it was a lot of fun and 
>quite manageable. We kept remarking on how well the boat is made. 
>Because you can set the sails at any size you can balance the boat 
>in extreme conditions. At one point Jay let go of the tiller to grab 
>his hat and the boat just sailed on straight  with no hard rounding 
>up or any jerky motion.
>Let's all tip our hats to Stan!
>
>rob
>Robert Baldi
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