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Minus Pants posted:What's the best way to learn to sail if you don't know anyone already into it? I've taken a 1 hour crash-course and read some books, but I'm not sure where to go from here. ASA 101/103? Private lessons? Any suggestions for where to take them? I'm in Chicago, but it would be nice to get something in this winter (obviously somewhere warmer). Like alctel said, racing. In Chicago, give the match racing center a call. They should be able to point you in the right direction/hook you up work a crew looking for a newbie.
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El Scotch posted:I grew up sailing and racing 20 - 60 footers and I miss it. Sadly growing up and moving to landlocked places has stymied that love for a long time. Is that a sailboard rig attached to an open transom laser?
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Nov 29, 2014 19:20
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Rime posted:So I've heard that the best way to get experience (since club registration is march) is to show up at the docks and try to crew on Race day. If you truly know of no one going racing, yes, this is the best way to do it. Just be upfront about your experience and your desire to learn and someone will pick you up, or point you in the direction of someone that needs crew. You're probably not going to go out on a big, fast boat your first time that way, but you will get experience. You never know though, on the Flying Tiger and the Soverel 33 I crew on, we've been desperate enough for crew when its really blowing to take a newbie on as rail meat.
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Dec 24, 2014 16:51
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How old is it? Gelcoat takes years to cure. That's why some of the most sturdy sailboats you'll find are J24s that sat in a warehouse for a year or two after the production boom in the early 80s before being purchased. Generally, in the last few decades, gelcoat durability has taken a hit because fiberglass shops will literally pop it out of the mold, coat it, then, prime it/finish/etc.
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Mar 24, 2015 06:10
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IMOCA 60s, and canting keels in general are pretty  http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2015/04/17/video-roll-roll-roll-the-boat/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
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Apr 17, 2015 18:33
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The CHIRP4 is pretty sweet, I was glad to see they put the CHIRP tech in the older, smaller chassis.
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Apr 20, 2015 01:32
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Guys, remember to keep an eye on the weather forecast while you're out on the water. Storms can get pretty nasty, pretty quick. A friend of mine lost his sailboat in this mess: http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/04/light_o_mobile_rescues_3_men_s.html#incart_related_stories
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Apr 29, 2015 15:03
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Well, there is a difference. Most of the racing I do is inland lake where our racing rules don't state you're required to have one on. Most of the coastal, all offshore races will require you to have one on in the rules. There is a flag that race committee can fly at the start that requires crew to wear PFDs, regardless if its written into the rules or not, kinda like surf warning flags on beaches. I haven't had a chance to talk to Tony since this happened so I'm not sure what his rationalization for it is. He's an experienced racer, with several Farr 40 (very high performance ocean racer) wins under his belt. Like I said, personally, I don't wear mine all the time, especially if I'm crewing in the cockpit. If I'm doing something that requires me to go forward of the companionway and its blowing, say, over 12, I'll certainly wear it. If the water is salty, you're goddamn right I'm wearing one all the time.
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Apr 29, 2015 15:42
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Locator, talked to Tony on Wednesday. The long and the short of it is, the storm came up so quickly no one had a chance to don any preservers before poo poo hit the fan. They were about 150 yards from the finish and thought they could out run the storm through the finish line and take the rags down, then. They didn't have time. Not that I'd say its an excuse when you're on a saltwater body, but, there's your answer.
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May 2, 2015 16:13
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We like to say our Drinking Club has a Sailing problem, you're absolutely right. Club racing on Wednesdays and Saturdays generally ain't the Volvo Ocean Race.
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May 4, 2015 02:44
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TheFluff posted:
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Jun 8, 2015 14:05
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If you wanna overnight you will want at least a J24, probably. Bonus--actually having lifelines and a not retarded class association. We had a J24/J22 joint regatta early this year where we ended up not racing because the local J22 class association has a rule where they won't race if its blowing over 25kts. Which is exactly when a J/boat starts getting fun.
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Jun 30, 2015 15:30
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sharkytm posted:Wow, Narrow as hell, must be a joy to sail. That's the problem with a lot of modern boats (of all types). They make them wide to accommodate more people, which makes them slow, un-seakindly, and heavy. If its asymmetrical and fast, you're drat right I want her to have a wide transom. (You did say *modern* boats.)
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Aug 6, 2015 16:08
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Not even foilers--the FT10 I race on has 105m^2 of kite. When that thing pops a plane, you better hold the gently caress on and be sitting aft of the companionway. You are correct about old hulls, though. There is a reason the J24 is still so popular.
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Aug 8, 2015 17:08
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How'd you like your first lesson, Locator?
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Oct 20, 2015 15:26
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Jump on that J! They're what I learned to sail on and I still try to make 2 or 3 major regattas on them a year. My favorite sailboat. This is me with the owner of the boat (on top) and the two old(er) cats we crew her with most of the time. The oldest guy in that picture took delivery of his J/24 in 1982, in the first batch of boats to come into the southeast. The boat we're beside, Lucifer's Hammer, was on the same truck coming in. Neither Hammer nor Steve's boat, Dixie Chic, have ever left Lake Lanier as home port. Pretty cool if you ask me. 
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Oct 20, 2015 17:58
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Popete posted:The Locator. As a new sailor myself I cannot recommend highly enough finding a racing crew to sail with. Good sailing advice. Racing makes you a much better sailor. More attentive to rules/regs and your trim/speed.
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Oct 21, 2015 16:30
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Kenshin posted:I was going to say something like I hope you can afford fuel but then decided I'm not a jerk. Uh do you know how much good racing sails cost for anything that's not a Laser?
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May 15, 2016 07:58
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That is hilariously bad. Post removed though, did someone in here buy it?
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Aug 10, 2016 18:03
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sharkytm posted:I would expect that there's a transmission in between the motor and the shaft... which could drop the revs to something resembling sanity. I know the big boats I've worked on and run usually have ~2:1 reduction. We're certainly not spinning the 42" wheel at 1800RPM. Correct, ski boats have reduction gears, commonly referred to as velvet drives.
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Aug 10, 2016 21:38
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MrKatharsis posted:^^^I watched that to get all psyched up for a race today. We ended up in 3 knots of wind the whole time. I'm so tired of this summer bullshit. Give me 35 knots, raining ice sideways and 3 foot inland swells, please.
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Sep 27, 2016 14:02
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Invalido posted:The most fun and fear I ever had on water was in one of these dinghies in an autumn gale (except it had a carbon fiber mast but no foresail) What is that thing? Looks like an Opti and a Thistle had offspring
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Oct 7, 2016 13:03
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Invalido posted:Their website is swedish only but maybe chrome's translate function or similar might make it at least semi-readable: http://www.kronaboats.com/ Google translate makes me giggle sometimes quote:1-krona is a durable dinghy that can be used in many ways! Depending on the weather it can be pleasant walk or sail exciting and challenging moguls in choppy seas!
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Popete posted:Racing, when you need 3 brand new head sails to shave a few milliseconds off your time. In my time in a competitive J24 program, (~5 years with the same team/boat, ~3 out of town regattas a year, ~10 weekends worth of hard racing locally, 35-40 beercan races and ~10 one day events) we've bought 2 genoas, 1 main, and 1 kite. Our practice sails are the suite that came with the boat when it was handed down to us by our buddy's dad, and we actively raced them for the first 2.5 years. Still perfectly serviceable for beercan/club racing. Our blade is older than myself and the skipper combined, nearly, because when you get to the point that you need to put the blade up in a J, it doesn't matter, you're gonna do hull speed. e: Racing isn't exorbitantly expensive if you're racing anything smaller than a 10 meter sportboat. SuperDucky fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Oct 14, 2016 |
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