[C320-list] 'Spirited Sailing'

[Pat Moriarty]

Not enough time to rig a preventer that is why I call myself a dead 
down wind expert, as you have to stay in front of the shifts. It's on 
a lake and I have to tack in maybe 10 minutes as it is a very crooked 
lake. Look up Lake Travis in Texas, some sails are 6-7 miles by water 
or 1 mile over land. You learn to play shifts and the bluffs. This is 
not at all like ocean sailing.


At 02:30 PM 10/22/2007, you wrote:
>Sounds like fun!
>
>It's great to get the boat performing like that. 6.7 wing on wing is 
>awesome.Do you use a preventer on the boom?
>
>We don't get flat seas and 30 kts winds very often, but we have done 
>7.4 a number of times in a 1 foot chop and winds around 15-20 kts.
>
>Kirk
>#124
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Moriarty" <patm at psiurethanes.com>
>To: "C320-List" <c320-list at catalina320.com>
>Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 5:24 AM
>Subject: Re: [C320-list] 'Spirited Sailing'
>
>
>>Well being a lake boat we do not get the swells except from the 50 
>>ft cruisers but we get wind and I am talking about San Francisco 
>>winds. This weekend my wife, 9 lb dog and I did a no current "lake 
>>remember" 7.7knts GPS speed and held 7+ for several minutes at a 
>>time. Her only complaint was this sure is working my back and arms 
>>a lot.  Now think lake and we tack more times per day than a boat 
>>going to Tahiti does in a week. With 30+mph winds and no swell a 
>>320 will go fast but it is a handfull at the helm. I think we saw 
>>6.7 wing and wing but with 30 degree shifts you don' look at the 
>>instruments very often.
>>
>>Pat
>>Sexualheeling #130
>>
>>At 06:39 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote:
>>>Those are our favorite conditions for a day-sail without guests.
>>>
>>>Jeff
>>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>>   From: Robert Seastream
>>>   To: C320-List
>>>   Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 6:35 PM
>>>   Subject: [C320-list] 'Spirited Sailing'
>>>
>>>
>>>   In other news, anyone have a mate (wife,, sig other, etc.) that prefers
>>>   not to go out when the seas are in excess of 4 feet and the winds in
>>>   excess of 15 knots steady state, or is it just me?
>>>
>>>   Bob
>>>   'Intuition'
>>>   #906
>>>
>>>
>>>   On Oct 19, 2007, at 7:25 PM, BAdams3491 at aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>   > My boat does not list at all...either to port or stbd.  I have two 4D
>>>   > batteries, no starting battery.
>>>   >
>>>   > Bert
>>>   > At Ease
>>>   > #442
>>>   >
>>>   >
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>>
>>Pat Moriarty
>>PSI Urethanes Inc
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Pat Moriarty
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