2020-05-26; 13:28:48 EDT
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2019-06-04
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Roger, thanks for the R22 racing tips! I was impressed with all the gear on the annotated photo of your bow on the rhodes22.org website that I stumbled on the other day: http://rhodes22.org/rhodes/pics/Roller_Furling.jpg. My thought was that one day I'd like to be able to know how to make good use of all of that. Eventually I may add a whisker pole and perhaps a spinnaker, but first I need to get a better handle on sail trim with the main and genoa with my current setup. I've tried having the crew hold a boat hook as a poor mans whisker pole when running wing on wing and that helped. Peter has an impressive whisker pole setup highlighted on his youtube videos that I may attempt to replicate at some point. I know conventional battened mainsail performs better, but I love the convenience of the IMF so I'll be sticking with that. I didn't buy the R22 for purposes of racing, but I figured I might as well try it since our club is starting up mixed class keelboat racing. Thanks again for sharing some racing tips for a novice like me. -- Sent from: http://rhodes-22.1065344.n5.nabble.com/See the original archive post