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Date Posted: 11:01:36 08/21/08 Thu
Author: Jay
Subject: Re: Neil's Boat
In reply to: Bill 's message, "Neil's Boat" on 08:57:43 08/21/08 Thu

I'd agree. Shoot for a sa/d ratio of at least 20, which will be hard to find. Macha, depending on how you add it up, has a sa/d ratio in the 20's for sure, and if I were to rig here again today, I'd go bigger yet. Still, Macha has some of the best light air performance of any boat I've ever sailed, and will sail while everything else is parked. If I had a Renegade today, one of the first things I would do would be to put a 7/8s rig or something on it of about 20 percent or so larger size, and take the engine weight of 500 lbs and put in in the keel well to compensate. Most any small CCA boat can use a short bowsprit, and many have too much weather helm anyhow, and this can be a quite cheap fix and a good way to add a lot of powerful foretriangle.

What is the SA/D ratio on the Yankee 30's out there-- they seem to be becoming the most popular engine less cruiser quite fast--

Oh, and again. You will not, cannot learn to sail an engineless boat by "just not using the motor." For two reasons. 1) You will chicken out and use it, and as Bill affirms as well, exactly at the moment you shouldn't, because that's when the learning actually starts. 2) A real sailboat handles so differently than a auxillary that you'll be handicapped in your learning. I've never seen an engine removal that didn't immediately net most of a knot in speed over the whole range of sailing performance. It's very significant, and much understated. The feathering prop doesn't mean beans.

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