Co26 passage planning speed?

[Uricanejack]

I’m not very good at rithmatic so I just use 5 knots cause it’s easy to count on my fingers.
works for most small boats as a rough guess.

 

[Blueboatman]

With the passage plan now sorted:

Is the boat new to your friend I wonder??

With main fuel tank “ believed to be” 30litres? Might be useably a lot smaller ??
Maybe take along another couple of 5l cans?

Now you know you have 20l or 20hours plus of clean-fuel motoring . Plus whatever is in the main tank, or isn’t, ahem .

And here’s to perfect sailing and the boat coming with coloured sails to play with and a sunny 15kn from the NW?

 

[johnalison]

I thought they were going from Dartmouth to the Solent? ?

I gave up geography. Never did it at O-level.

 

[capnsensible]

I’m not very good at rithmatic so I just use 5 knots cause it’s easy to count on my fingers.
works for most small boats as a rough guess.

If you come from Norfolk you can go a bit faster.

 

[neil_s]

For the round the boom roller reefing - a bit of plastic water pipe sleeved over the outboard half of the boom works wonders. Cut a slot in it for the sail foot.

 

[yimkin]

I had an Achilles 9m with boom roller reefing (Proctor through mast): loved it.
Following the advice of a sailmaker, I put a cringle in the leach 10" above the clew. To reef, raise the boom on the topping lift, tighten the outhaul, put a tie through the cringle and lash tight to the boom, then whilst keeping a reasonable tension on the main halyard roll the sail round the boom. You should end up with a flat sail of an appropriate size without boom 'droop'.
I now have a boat with slab reefing and consider that roller reefing has a number of advantages. Especially for a singlehander. However it got a bad press because many of the earlier systems were poorly engineered and the kickers were not on a reefing claw so the kicker had to be removed before reefing (or jury rigged). Also rolling in a sailbag (or similar) was never going to achieve a decent shape!

 

[JumbleDuck]

As a crew member said to me after a 3 week cruise round the western isles “It doesn’t seem to matter how fast we go, we always average 4 knots”.

Yup. My boat is also 26' long and, judging from a couple we've met, about the same speed as a Co26. I reckon on 4 kts or 100 nm per day.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

I had an Achilles 9m with boom roller reefing (Proctor through mast): loved it.
Following the advice of a sailmaker, I put a cringle in the leach 10" above the clew. To reef, raise the boom on the topping lift, tighten the outhaul, put a tie through the cringle and lash tight to the boom, then whilst keeping a reasonable tension on the main halyard roll the sail round the boom. You should end up with a flat sail of an appropriate size without boom 'droop'.
I now have a boat with slab reefing and consider that roller reefing has a number of advantages. Especially for a singlehander. However it got a bad press because many of the earlier systems were poorly engineered and the kickers were not on a reefing claw so the kicker had to be removed before reefing (or jury rigged). Also rolling in a sailbag (or similar) was never going to achieve a decent shape!

I got my sail recut to raise the clew about 25ch, for £70. No issue with high clew in usual unreefed mode and the thing does not droop quite so much part reefed. Most of our drive come from the genoa so loss of mainsail area trivial.

 

[TernVI]

Some old boats used to have tapered booms, fatter at the clew, so roller reefing shortened the leech more than the luff.
Looking at old pictures, maybe roller reefing worked better with old fashioned sailcloth.
I've seen a few roller reefed mains in the past decade, and they've all looked abysmal.
When it's windy enough to reef, good control of sail shape matters more than ever.