Race Results Service...

A couple of people on here asked for results to be posted...

 

The first race of the series was a "round the cans" race in the Solent which was raced in very light airs (wind never above 9 knots) last Saturday.  I am pleased to say that we won our class!  This is despite the fact that I usually hate sailing in light airs.  A full race report can be found here.    We beat a Westerly GK33 into second place and a Maxi 1100 into third.  Despite being the slowest boat by handicap in the class we were only 24 seconds away from also taking line honours which went to the GK33.

 

Scorpio is a standard Hanse 342 with a self tacking jib (no genoa) and a Sanders Sails asymmetric spinnaker.  We are very pleased to have won on our first double-handed outing, especially as over the three previous years racing my old boat in the same series, the best we ever achieved was a second.

 

For other people with new boats, get your rig tuned - it definitely makes a difference.  Scorpio was delivered just before Christmas and has done about 150NM.  On advice from Hanse UK about new rigging stretching, I had the rig tuned the day before the race.  The rigger put about 7 turns on the lowers each side, six on the intermediates and 5 on the caps to get the mast set up right and the tension correct.

 

The next races in the series are over the first weekend of May when we have two longer races, from the Solent to Weymouth and back again - about 45NM each way.

 

Ed

 

Great news!

 

Very well done on your first race - you must be very pleased  Please keep us all up-to-date with your progress through the season.

 

Good luck

Dan.

Yesterday Abstinez entered the first race of 17 in our local serie. Mentally ready we went out to do our utmost. We did a fair start and tacked very nicely with our new 130% kevlar genua (Quantum X-Fusion 13). The windforce was only about 5-7 knots. We came first in our group to the first mark, then had som problems hoisting the asymm. spinnaker (Quantum Vision 3), but was still marginally in front after the third mark. Then the wind dropped halfway the next upwind leg and unfortunately we did not get wind before our competitors. So we came in last in our group and only did an overall place as no. 38 of 44 in corr. time.

 

The good thing was, that our boatspeed upwind was superior and the new Spinlock spinnakerblocks (BRS 63) did there job.  

/Steen & Anne
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This topic is of big interest to me as I am trying to get my 400 rig set up properly for racing. At the moment, there is far too much forestay sag. I did a quick search on the web using your hint above (Selden) and came up with this tuning guide. It looks very good. Is it the one you saw previously?

 

 

I'm going to start a separate topic on rig tuning and see what folks have to say.

 

Steve