[C320-list] Inbalance port versus starboard tack

[ARTHUR GATES]

Bev,
I race with a 155 genny and the 23 year old factory main.  The main is still in fair shape so I have not yet replaced it, thinking that the vast majority of my power comes from the genny?
We also point a lot better on port tack.
Rollie
#182    1995 320   Buckeye II

> On August 11, 2018 at 7:32 PM Bev Wright <bev.wright at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Greg, 
> 
> Glad to read about your genoa car and traveler positions because we also keep the cars all the way aft (I have a 3-yr old polylaminate 150 genoa) and the traveler much higher than I would have thought correct, in fact, as high as possible, not only on close haul/reach but even fairly high on beam reach, and still point higher on port tack.  However, I'm thinking that, like John said, it's time to get a new mainsail (mine is 10 years old and looks fine but so do some of my clothes that don't fit anymore!) and that would probably help point even better and go faster.  We are still doing fairly well in stiff breezes with this mainsail.
> 
> Bev Wright
> 1993 C-320 "Whoosh" #15
> Deale, MD (Chesapeake Bay, HHN) 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C320-list [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Greg Flanagan
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2018 9:43 AM
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Inbalance port versus starboard tack
> 
> In 12 yearsI too have this effect and had assumed it had to do with the inherent Port list. Years ago I had the rigging checked, including the plumb of the mast, by a professional rigging business and they reported all was well. I too just live with it. Having said that, I can point exceptionally close with the sails tight (cars all the way aft for the job) and the traveller all the way over.
> 
> Greg
> Hoop Dancer #1076
> Sidney, BC 
> 
> > On Aug 11, 2018, at 5:46 AM, Bev Wright <bev.wright at verizon.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Rob, if your boat has a port list like mine (1993, #15), then I believe that this is one effect. We seem to sail better and point higher on port tack than starboard, as much as 10-15 degrees. Some owners have put weights under the starboard settee. I have not and live with it as is. 
> > 
> > Bev Wright
> > S/V Whoosh
> > Edgewater, MD
> > 
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> >> On Aug 11, 2018, 8:05 AM, at 8:05 AM, Rob Buitendijk <robbuitendijk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> When we sail on starboard tack, we cannot go upwind (10-20 degrees
> >> difference) as far as sailing on port tack.
> >> Since we own our boat only since last year, we looked into things above
> >> deck, like the mast, sails, and so on, but nothing helped.
> >> 
> >> Is anyone familiair with this problem? Has it something to do with
> >> weights
> >> of tanks and batteries on one side?
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Rob Buitendijk
> >> The Netherlands
> >> 2003 Catalina 320 #949
>