[C320-list] C320 or C34 - Which is faster?

[LaChance,Michael B]

There are lots of factors at work when two boats meet on the water.
While the 320s are pretty sweet all around, I remember a regatta last
year where we tried for literally hours to get past an older Catalina 30
and could not. We took 4th and he took 3rd. Chalked it up to all the
gray hair and experience on and in his head.
Mike LaChance 
 
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[mailto:c320-list-bounces at catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Len
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:10 PM
To: C320-List
Subject: Re: [C320-list] C320 or C34 - Which is faster?

Have many similar experiences off Marina del Rey---I think our 320 hull
design and relatively longer boom makes us faster than the older hull
design
and shorter boom on both 34s and 36s.

Len Krane
Aqua5   #1070

On 7/31/07, Ken Danko <sfca33 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I don't race my boat but I generally subscribe to the concept that
when
> two sailboats are on the same point of sail, and in sight of each
other,
> it's a race. I went out on Sunday just a few minutes behind a C34
three dock
> spaces down from me and, as it turns out, we were headed in the same
general
> direction. Those of you in the bay area will get these place
references but
> the rest of you will get the general drift. I had my main reefed and
my 100%
> jib up in anticipation of serious wind later in the morning. The C34
had a
> 140% jib and a full main. In the light wind in the lee of Angel Island
I
> passed him pretty easily which was surprising since I had so little
sail up.
> Then we both tacked back and forth in 19 knots of wind up Racoon
Straight
> (fighting a current) and it was clear that my 320 was again faster
than his
> 34. I had a bunch of amateurs on board and we weren't doing a great
job of
> tacking. We were just a bunch of people out for a fun day of sailing.
I
> assumed that the 34 was overpowered in the heavy wind while I was
> underpowered in the light wind, yet I was faster in both situations.
Anyone
> else have experiences sailing along side a C34?Ken Danko"Grace"
#802San
> Francisco
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