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Date Posted: 11:52:38 08/22/08 Fri
Author: Jay
Subject: Re: Advice for those of us afflicted with CCA syndrome....
In reply to: Mark D 's message, "Advice for those of us afflicted with CCA syndrome...." on 06:54:37 08/22/08 Fri

Sure, why not? Just know that it's going to be harder, and you're going to have to be a proportionately better sailor to pull it off, and getting caught in a near calm is something that's going to happen more often. If you really like the basic boat, it's a pretty simple matter to redraw a rig, and I'd offer to do it for anyone who needed it done at this point. If you find yourself a used mast, and there's a few to be had, and the boat in in need of new wire anyway, it's really not very hard to do.

At the very least, consider a bowsprit. If you've got a boat with a long boom, and a tendency to weather helm, and small fore triangle, like a lot of Alberg boats, as an example, it's a natural solution. For rules of thumb, I like the CE of the sailplan 20% ahead of CR, and the J length the same as the boom length.

You want to have positive lee helm in light air.

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