[Rhodes22-list] Doyle UPS

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Rick,
It's interesting how we have such different experiences. I wonder if the 
differnce is where we sail.

We got the UPS with the hope that it would make the very light air days 
(4 - 5 knots) on the Chesapeake more fun. On those days, the 175 would 
slat, flap and collapse on itself - sometimes from its own weight and 
sometimes from the powerboat chop which can be constant on weekends on 
the Upper Bay. The UPS made a big difference in those conditions and we 
used it a lot.

A few years before we sold Fretless, we had the Sunbrella UV protective 
strip on the 175 replaced with a lighter weight material and the the 
sail behaved better in light air. We didn't use the the UPS as much 
after that but sometimes would pull it out just because we had so much 
fun with it.

I forget what that UV material that we had put on the genoa was called 
but it was white, lighter weight and attracted dirt. It didn't look as 
good but the sail behaved a lot better in very light air.

Mary Lou

On 1/23/2018 10:09 AM, Rick wrote:
> Peter,
>
> I'm the Devil's advocate on the UPS.  It has given me the least pleasure or
> utility return on any equipment investment I've made in the boat.
>
> I have a 175 genny that crowds out use of the UPS by itself.  The only time
> I use it is to sail wing-on-wing with the genny in up to 10 knots.  But how
> often and how long I want to sail like that rarely justifies the bother of
> raising and deploying the UPS.
>
> Rick
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