[Rhodes22-list] a boisterous sail

Chris Geankoplis chrisgeankoplis at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 18:22:34 EDT 2021


Aww Shawn, that sounds like too much work. But yes, that would have been
the next step if it started to be a steady 20 kts. I really enjoyed the
sail with Ruben.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 4:39 PM Shawn Boles <shawn.sustain at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Reuben:
>
> Chris is a good teacher and a fine sailor. He let me sail Enosis before I
> bought Sweet Baboo.
>
> So Chis, are you willing to talk a little about sail balance in 15+ winds?
> In the first photo,  if you dropped the boom, leaving jib as is, would you
> pull out more main and/or change traveler setting?
>
> Cheers,
> Shawn
> s/v Sweet Baboo
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 8:58 AM Reuben Mezrich <reuben.mezrich at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Last Wednesday Chris Geankoplis drove over from Fort Pierce to go for a
> > sail and give me some tips on how to sail and care for my new Rhodes 22.
> > The winds were about 15 knots when we got out to Little Sarasota Bay from
> > my harbor and rose to about 17 knots, with gusts to 20 knots (as measured
> > by a hand held anemometer) as the afternoon went on. A neighbor in a
> > motorboat passed by and took the pictures below.
> >
> > We had the boat well reefed down but still were doing 4 - 5 knots and
> > occasionally getting up to 6 knots. Chris did most of the sailing -
> > essentially single-handing as I provided rail beef and watched and
> learned.
> > I was impressed by what the boat - and Chris - could do. I’ve been
> sailing
> > a big boat (Island Packet 380) till I got the Rhodes last December and
> its
> > entirely different.  This sail provided an “existence proof”  and showed
> me
> > a skill to aspire to. I’m looking forward to it.
> >
> >
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