I represented the California F16 fleet, this past weekend, at the 40th Camelia Cup Regatta (won last year by Doc Poulsen).This regatta is a really well organized and officiated annual event of the Folsom Lake Yacht Club and the city of Folsom (east of the Cali. capitol of Sacramento). We're experiencing a really weird (unprecedented ) winter weather pattern here in California that rather redundantly features rain , rain showers , thunderstorms and the odd snow flurry just to keep things fresh... Conditions, both days of the regatta, were light W - NW whispers of wind that later clocked full west at about 5 knots. At times a high slapped the lake with 0 knts. of wind - though, I noticed this only happened when i overstood a mark or tacked miles from the rumb line chasing pressure.For those of you who find youself mentally humming a tune as you race ( I always do...) , I kept hearing Johnny Cash singing , "I'm stuck in Folsom Prison..." when the wind died and A/C ~ D/C's "Highway To Hell" when I took a gamble and sailed away from the short course in search of wind ! Really light wind races are a tremendous mental exercise and gratifying in a manner similiar to say - painting your closet - ; tedious, annonymous, but gratifying when you finish ; though reluctant to ever paint that closet in the hallway... In the end , technology and modern design, succumbed to good solid tactics and a portsmouth rating with as many coma's as a '66 corvair's odometer, as a Prindle 16 took a well earned victory for the regatta.
how many Hobie sailors does it take to launch a spin ??
Actually , the local Hobie sect. are damn tough sailors , deriving the benefit of almost weekly regatta's , deep fleets and a colleaguality second to none...
Tried this as you suggested - love it ! Feels like skiff style boom sheeting , but w/ all that purchase !!
Paul: How much easier is it to sheet with this setup? I went sailing UNI this last weekend, and I noticed my cleat on the mainsheet needs to be angled further down. I also noticed that a mid tramp cleat would make things a lot easier.
Is it posible you can break it down in another thread on how you went about completing this setup.
Tried this as you suggested - love it ! Feels like skiff style boom sheeting , but w/ all that purchase !!
Paul: How much easier is it to sheet with this setup? I went sailing UNI this last weekend, and I noticed my cleat on the mainsheet needs to be angled further down. I also noticed that a mid tramp cleat would make things a lot easier.
Is it posible you can break it down in another thread on how you went about completing this setup.
Hiya Robi !
I ordered my F16 from AHPC with the mid boom to tramp sheeting (love this for solo sailing as it improves sheeting angle , adds purchase ). You could back engineer this easily enough and i'd do close up pic's if you'd like. I think the diameter or thickness or both diameter and thickness of the boom are larger than Doc's sheeting from the traveller boom (betcha Wouter knows...). The improved feel to which I refered was the re-cored 3mm Dyneema through D12 mantle of the actual mainsheet ...
Centre sheeting ; use 50 mm x 1.6 mm alu boom. 1 mm wallthickness is not enough. If you can only get 2 mm wall thickness then you may just try 40 mm outer diameter. But 50 mm x 1.6 mm is king.
Wouter
Wouter Hijink Formula 16 NED 243 (one-off; homebuild) The Netherlands
What if you were to run the mid boom block further forward on the boom, so as to lessen the load at mid boom. Put it about two feet back from the mast and angle it backward to the mid tramp block. Wouldn't that keep it from bending/breaking the boom?
Centre sheeting ; use 50 mm x 1.6 mm alu boom. 1 mm wallthickness is not enough. If you can only get 2 mm wall thickness then you may just try 40 mm outer diameter. But 50 mm x 1.6 mm is king.
Wouter
HMMM, I wonder if the stock boom on the VMI Blades fit this criteria?
