Why did they think it was a good idea?

[Wansworth]

Bloody great headsails and small mainsails……..now when I am old and frail it’s a battle to tack or reduce sail even with furling gear which leaves a great lump on the forestry.My7/8 rigged mashford sloop put the sail area in the main but sometime in the 1960s racing yachts became the benchmark of yacht design.

 

[Clancy Moped]

So you can't see where your going

 

[Wansworth]

So you can't see where your going

Exactly!

 

[Bouba]

So you can't see where your going

Do yotties ever look

 

[Wansworth]

Do yotties ever look

“I am racing”

 

[Bouba]

“I am racing”

So that’s a no…especially at speed

 

[capnsensible]

So that’s a no…especially at speed

No it's a yes.

 

[Stemar]

“I am racing”

And on port tack, while I'm on starboard.

In my experience, it's only the muppets halfway down the pack in Sunday races that do that. The real racers regard me as any other obstacle and just want me to be predictable.

Dishonourable exception for the Barclays boat training for a round the world race, who was on port when I was on starboard. Only my crash gybe prevented them cutting me on half. The only time I've ever put in a CHIRP report.

 

[Bouba]

Sitting here in port reading the forum…when I felt the crash…another yottie has just crash landed

 

[capnsensible]

Sitting here in port reading the forum…when I felt the crash…another yottie has just crash landed

Can you sail or is your boat stuff limited to just sat about with an engine?

 

[Bouba]

Can you sail or is your boat stuff limited to just sat about with an engine?

They didn’t sail into port…they motored

 

[capnsensible]

They didn’t sail into port…they motored

So you can't sail a boat then.

 

[Bouba]

So you can't sail a boat then.

Repeat…they didn’t sail into port

 

[capnsensible]

Repeat…they didn’t sail into port

What has another boat got to do with you not being able to sail?

 

[Bouba]

What has another boat got to do with you not being able to sail?

I thought we were talking about parking a boat

 

[Wansworth]

I thought we were talking about parking a boat

Theop was talking about overlapping headsails and small mains……..

 

[Bouba]

Theop was talking about overlapping headsails and small mains……..

And what makes you an expert on what the OP was thinking

 

[capnsensible]

And what makes you an expert on what the OP was thinking

Is it because he's the op?

 

[Wansworth]

Is it because he's the op?

 

[capnsensible]

Bloody great headsails and small mainsails……..now when I am old and frail it’s a battle to tack or reduce sail even with furling gear which leaves a great lump on the forestry.My7/8 rigged mashford sloop put the sail area in the main but sometime in the 1960s racing yachts became the benchmark of yacht design.

I learnt a lot on a few thousand miles of sailing Prout cats in my early sailing. Big, big headsails and small main so you could get out of digging a hull in and oopsa. Was easier and far quicker to nip round in a quick gybe than tacking.

Our old Moody had a big overlapping headsail 70s style but with the 2 of us I often sailed with a few rolls in. Then I talked to a sailmaker who made us a much nicer cut genny without the deck sweep foot.

Some of the yachts I raced in the 80's and 90's were older with deck sweeping genoas and were, frankly, a pita.,