Cruising Chutes!!

[TheCount]

Thanks Bedouin,

I thought 8mm would be about right as the sailcloth is a lot more delicate than the Genoa.

The bateau is a 32' Colvic Watson Motorsailor, so not quite in the racing stakes but she has just had a complete brand new suit of sails so it will be interesting to see the difference. The old ones were the originals (20 years old!!)

regards
Andy

<hr width=100% size=1>Still, what do I Know??

 

[johnt]

yes I had noticed .....but then, I wouldnt fancy trying to bag a hardened in chute either!

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[boatless]

JohnT

I'm sure you'll have the last word here; I bow to your superior knowledge.

I believed (obviously wrongly) that oversheeted sails are stalled, boats sit more upright and go more slowly with stalled sails. Isn't this the principle behind heaving-to? I've not been on a Trapper 500, maybe the boats I have sailed are different?

But may I quote from "re: how many sails" by JohnT on 17/01/2002?

"I carry 3 sails ..
cruising chute ..seldom used.
No2 roller genoa..on on plastimo 608 roller.
main ..boom roller."

In about 27 years of racing and cruising, I've only a rough guess at how many times I've put a spinnaker up, say four or five hundred?


<hr width=100% size=1>my opinion is complete rubbish, probably.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by boatless on 29/03/2004 19:47 (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[johnt]

Perhaps you have boatless .........

...but to use the anology of heaving to!... well for a start the headsail is REDUCED and BACKED not stalled, and also you are pointing UPWIND !

so that anology is useless as we are talking at the very least a broad reach ...and you cant back a headsail while running, all that does is put you on the other tack.

a chute sheeted hard in when at 130 degrees from the wind still has some drive but a lot of the effort is used to push the boat over, causing most boats to try to gripe up, thus transferring and increasing the drive effort from sideways to forward................been there, done that not very comfortable........AND I THINK, SO HAVE YOU!

can I suggest some reasearch by you on how exactly an aircraft flies. then you might understand exactly what stalling is ...... how do you 'stall' something that is effectively already stalled? 'pressure on the underside, turbulant air in the top (front)'

why do they call you boatless?

PS having had the same boat 18 years ..and always had a chute ..............how many times would SELDOM USED add up to?. 10 times a year 20? 30?

...and why use a chute when you can get enough speed without it?

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[boatless]

Does anybody think I should respond?

<hr width=100% size=1>my opinion is complete rubbish, probably.