The carbon fiber spinnaker pole we bought is a real waste of money we used
it this weekend and screwed up every set we attempted. I thought I could
follow up that great decision by buying an A-sail.
Think of what your spinnaker looks like when your pole is on the forestay. Now move the area that is not doing you any good to a place where it can and you have the beginning of an A sail. It is somewhat like a colored genoa that has an oversized luff and is 180 percent of J. If we can carry this with no penalty it's got to be good. We used it on that fleet race when we thought Roy was going to show up. Since we only came out to get you all a start and had only three on board we set it instead of the Spinnaker. We were real late putting it up and once we did we noticed we were catching up fast. It has had my interest ever since. I want to use it on races like Malibu and return or Cat harbor return where most of the spinnaker work is a close reach. We would have used it this last weekend as the wind was real light and we reached off for speed on the downwind legs. We are doing well going to weather but I suck going downwind. Now I can learn to sail downwind or buy a new sail. What do you think I am most likely to do?
Mike Guccione
818-502-2600
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-santana3030@sailpix.com [mailto:owner-santana3030@sailpix.com]On
Behalf Of jtheaney
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 5:00 PM
To: innove8@pacbell.net
Cc: Al Navarro; Santana 30-30 Mailserver
Subject: Re: A-Sails
Mike--
Here's my two-cents on the subject. If your going to use a A sail
without a
pole, is'nt it just the same as a very large (i.e. 200%+) reaching jib? Any
such headsail over 155% is going to get a penalty.
John
Spirit
Mike Guccione wrote:
> Certainly this is not official and final. As you know each boat is rated
> individually but this does look extremely good. I am trying to get on the
> regional agenda and have this done officially but at least I feel safe in
> doing so now. The A sail that I am looking for is one that will handle
> close reaching and this will attached and fly much like a genoa. No pole
> will be used. In two separate test we did with Steve Murphy's A-Sail there
> seems to be a big advantage. Now Steve's A Sails are oversize but we still
> think in certain point to point races and light air races this is the
> ticket.
>
> Mike Guccione
> 818-502-2600
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-santana3030@sailpix.com
[mailto:owner-santana3030@sailpix.com]On
> Behalf Of Al Navarro
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:43 PM
> To: innove8@pacbell.net; Santana 30-30 Mailserver
> Subject: Re: A-Sails
>
> Not Really....He said IF you use a std pole. Would a std pole give you
any
> advantage? some say yes, some say no. Also, he said it was his "opinion",
he
> can't speak for the entire board. Chief handicapper doesn't give him
> authority to grant handicaps uncontested.
>
> Al N.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Guccione" <innove8@pacbell.net>
> To: "Santana 30-30 Mailserver" <santana3030@sailpix.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:40 PM
> Subject: FW: A-Sails
>
> > This is the word from the chief handicapper. No penalty!
> >
> > Mike Guccione
> > 818-502-2600
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: USA97408@aol.com [mailto:USA97408@aol.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 5:09 PM
> > To: innove8@pacbell.net
> > Subject: Re: A-Sails
> >
> > If you use the standard pole length, my opinion is that there will be
not
> > penalty.
> >
> >
Received on Mon Jan 15 18:37:37 2001