Where We Sailed Today

dvCali · Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314

Great day at the Stick. Windy! with sail sizes 4.0 to 6.3 going around. Finally doing some decent speed with the CA 52 and 5.5 Hot sail GPS hit 29.77 knots max speed and 29.1 for 10". Not bad in the Stick high frequency chop, especially because one of the tuttle screws was loose and the fin out 1" in the back Shocked

Time to brake the 30 knots barrier! Have not done it yet this year!

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

2 cm more fin than normal, faster in lulls, and get's up upwind again quicker...slightly wider board, set up to run totally free of chop, max powered, beam to broad depending on chop and windstrength for your sail.
Some people talk about max downhaul and flatter sails, but the fastest speed trials guy in Marin ran small sails, no downhaul, and very baggy.
I guess you know my bud JRobb.

dvCali · Joined: 23 Aug 2007 Posts: 1314

dllee · Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay

Remember when Mike Percy won the Crissy Speed Trials around 4 year's ago?
Flood tide smooth water, 7.6 Hansen Race, 36 cm Gold Wing that would hum loudly at around 26 mph, yet he won it with something like a 37 mph speed.
He said his fin was humming way before he hit top speed, and only hummed a little bit higher pitch as he entered the timing traps. He thought he was sub 32 mph, went for another run immediately, went 36 something, and actually went for another run, thinking he wasn't going fast at all, yet he won it on the final two runs which he thought were slow due to a big sail and a big fin for his 8'10" Slab Blue label.
Fin drag is a lot lower than board bottom drag, so your board has to run free first and foremost, without the bottom at the mast track ever touching the water once up to speed.
We're talking about hand foiled Tectonics fins here, and even the slowest is pretty fast.

ctuna · Joined: 27 Jun 1995 Posts: 1126 Location: Santa Cruz Ca

Candlestick 6/20/2016 4.7 very powered to over powered
from 3 to 5:30 and I weigh 220.
Some people on 4.2 s saying they wanted there 3.7's
Candle stick 5/18/2016 very powered on 5.3 all afternoon.
Bob had to go back home today(6/20/2016) to get his small gear but he only lives 13 miles away.
Not exactly weak upper teens.

spanker_jeep · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2016 10:36 am Post subject:

Should be solid for all the next two weeks. Forecast for Stockton is high 100f, Low 60f. That 40 degree temp fluctuation means wind will be cranking through the gaps. LOL.

rigatoni · Joined: 25 Feb 1999 Posts: 498

Really cranking at Crissy yesterday afternoon to nicely coincide with the ebb. A little light inside Anita but the wind went from 6.0 to 4.5 in the span of about 50ft just as you shlogged past Anita. Sailed a couple of hours late afternoon on a 4.5/85L board (I'm about 190lbs) pretty lit up. Mid span was easily 4.0 conditions. Hoping the forecast for the week holds up. It's been a tough season so far.

bert · Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 665

WTF!..wanted to sail at my spots above the Peninsula the last 2 days but the traffic congestion above Palo Alto had me turn around and forced me to sail the local pond at PA. Getting very frustrated with the traffic nightmare on 101 and I sail during the supposedly non commute hours (noon to 3). Fortunately I have the gear for light wind conditions. Today I rigged 6.6 on the Bic Techno with a never used 58 cm Curtis stiletto carbon fin. Slogged at 12, planed at 14 and really hauled ass at 16. Fin may have been a bit big for the 6.6 but I wanted to see what it could do, and it's awesome (plus I got it for free with the Techno). May head out before noon tomorrow or take 280 to avoid the commute.

kirk2 · Joined: 26 Aug 2014 Posts: 5 Location: Los Altos, CA

rigatoni · Joined: 25 Feb 1999 Posts: 498

3.5-4.0 conditions at Crissy yesterday. It's been a nukefest all week. Come and get it!