Re: [Cal_Boats] Is it time for the dreaded beam repla

Sent from Huawei Mobile Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: >On 2/14/2013 2:09 PM, Helen Horn wrote: >> >> >> I have to respond to this comparison of the 29 and 30, they couldn't >> be more different, especially in handling and hull configuration..look >> at sailboatdata.com and compare the fin keel of the 29, it's prop >> location vis-a-vis the rudder, the slower style more-for-cruising keel >> shape on the 30, it takes an acre to turn the 30. > >This makes me grin. I learned early sailing skills on a S&S "Rainbow," >a 24' fin-keeled, spade-ruddered sail training vessel designed for the >Annapolis Sailing School. I remember it as a very good boat. When you >wanted to come about, you gave the tiller a little poke to leeward and >the boat turned around. Then I started sailing on my old Seafarer >Polaris, a Tripp (the elder) keel-centerboard vessel with a low-aspect >mainsail and a long keel and keel-hung rudder. My brother and I and >friends went out sailing one night and as dusk fell we found ourselves >among stakes driven in to mark a dredging project. Hey, let's get outta >here. So I poked the tiller over to leeward. The boat headed up a >little bit and went into irons. Oh. So we fell off and I tried it >again. Same effect. So gradually it dawned on me that with this boat, >you gathered speed, made a nice graceful long arc of a turn, and it >would work. Long keel, long turn. > >Chris Campbell >