[C320-list] Naples/ Key West

[A. R. Gates]

Joe,
I noticed your backstay adjuster -- how do you use it in various racing legs and situations?
Does it help with all up feathering into a gust?
Regards, Art

-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Barrett <joe at dolphinmortgage.com>
>Sent: May 1, 2006 1:43 PM
>To: 'C320-List' <C320-List at catalina320.com>
>Subject: [C320-list] Naples/ Key West
>
>Hi Rollie, nice to have met a fellow C320 owner as well! I trust you had a
>smooth, fast and safe ride Sunday back to Pt Charlotte Harbor. We did
>equally as well in Sundays 12 mile race, a bit of wind always helps our
>C320's for sure. I'm always amazed by all the reefing going on in our fleet.
>Boats with reefed Mains and some with reefed jibs while we carry full sail
>and feather the boat into the wind in the gusts. It's great having a stable
>heavy displacement boat on a windy day.
>Joe Barrett
>#689 Island Time
>Naples, Florida
> 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: C320-List-bounces at catalina320.com
>[mailto:C320-List-bounces at catalina320.com] On Behalf Of A. R. Gates
>Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 12:33 PM
>To: C320-List
>Subject: [C320-list] Exhaust Riser Elbow & inward flange - Key West
> 
>On the way to Key West 9 days ago, our flange/pipe leading into the muffler
>from the hose at the rear of the engine developed leaking cracks around most
>of the circumfrance where the flange joins the muffler box.  The bilge pump
>more than handled the leaking water so we made it fine.  I supose the cracks
>are from age/vibration.
>Before returning, I patched all around the flange with Marine Tex epoxy
>which held well during the return voyage to Naples in 6-7' seas, sustained
>25 kph winds with gusts to 35!  The last nighttime 9 hours of that 21 hour
>leg were in that sort of weather but the boat did well with one reef in the
>main (if I'd known all that was coming I'd have put in 2 reefs before dark).
>Do those cracks mean it is time to order the replacement muffler from
>Catalina?
> 
>Although our boat is a 1995 model it only has 320 hours on the engine,
>having spent its first 7 years in light use on fresh-water Lake Winnepausaki
>in NH.     I had the pleasure of meeting Joe Barrett in Naples where we
>ended up in a slip across from his -- he and his fit crew were winners in
>races that started a few hours after we arrived in the weather discribed
>above!   Rollie  #182
> 
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dave Anderer <danderer at udel.edu>
>>Sent: Apr 21, 2006 4:32 PM
>>To: C320-List <C320-List at catalina320.com>
>>Subject: Re: [C320-list] Exhaust Riser Elbow
>> 
>>The surveyor told me my elbow was leaking and needed to be replaced (a 
>>99 boat with the Yanmar.)  Called Catalina Florida, and they did some 
>>research and told me it was a standard Yanmar part - call a Yanmar 
>>distributor.  'Course Florida was just starting to build 320s, so they 
>>may not have had their facts straight.
>> 
>>I pulled the elbow and found there was nothing wrong with it, so I never 
>>pursued getting a new one.
>> 
>>For what it is worth.
>> 
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