Joe, Sounds like a good cruise. How far back from the goose neck on the boom did you attach the vang and where did you attach the "foot" of the vang? (in the mast slot or to the deck?) Bill On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Joe Murphy <seagray@embarqmail.com> wrote:
Based on the outstanding advice I recieved, I set up a boom vang and a backstay tensioner on Seafrog. I spent the last 4 days with two other boats sailing the Neuse River and had a lot of fun experimenting with these two new enhancements. On Thursday I had very strong winds reaching up to Oriental and being able to stiffen up the headstay helped flatten the jib (just like Jerry said it would). On Saturday we had very very light winds so keeping the sails fat and happy was easier. Then I was so impressed with how easy it was to control the twist in the main with the boom vang (just like Jerry said it would). I did my best to keep up with a 26 ft home made smack with twin gaff rigged mains and a 26' Oday. There was no way to keep up with the smack in the light winds. And I learned a little more about hull speed. Plus I need to put Seafrog on a diet. I lost my water line after provisioning. Has anyone found any freeze dried beer?? Joe _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
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