Morgan Stinemetz
Moderator
Traveler
What kind of sheeting do you have? End-of-boom? Mid-boom? A traveler that won't travel is worthless.
What kind of sheeting do you have? End-of-boom? Mid-boom? A traveler that won't travel is worthless.
Go faster E27
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Jeff Asbury
Principal Partner
My boat points a lot better than that more like 20-15, or even higher. I have the windex at he top of the mast as well as a raymarine wind speed indicator.
Yes, center that boom. My traveler has hardly any purchase. 2 to 1 on each side. I really can't adjust it when I am sailing with winds over 12 knots. There is one trick, you can point into the wind, slack the main sheet and move the stoppers even if you don't have any purchase on your traveler.
I carry a lot of weight as well, with inboard, 4 batteries, 18 gal water tank, two anchors with chain and lots of cruising crap. I have had her up to 9 knots on a brad reach surfing at times.
What kind of sails do you have? I use a 140 w/ roller furling / roller reefing and I have a full batten main. My sails are 7 years old and still hold pretty good shape.
What I do know from owning this heavy boat for the last 9 years is that you really need at least 8 knots to get her up to close to hull speed. She like heavy air.
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When you installed the windex did you bend the two two reference arms closer together?. The Default position is approx. 27 degrees from dead ahead.
Jeff Asbury
Principal Partner
I have no Idea, my rigger did that.
E27 went fast this year!
We have had a great season racing Thursday nights this year.
We usually place 2nd or 3rd out of 8-12 boats. We actually won the last series! We were even first over the finish line on two of the races (in one case beating an S-2 7.9 by just a few feet)
We have a newer main and jib (both are dacron) the jib is a 155% (largest allowed without a penalty) and we have roller furling which sacrfices a small amount of sail area at the foot, but gave us a 6 second cruising allowance.
We have fixed 2 blade prop. There are marks on the shaft coupler that indicate if the prop is lined up straight up an down. We keep it in gear, and use the hand crank on the A4 to line it up. (wish we could find a different prop, but folding wont fit without hitting rudder, and nobody seems to make a feathering prop small enough, or affordable enough)
Of course all extra weight is out of the boat, and with the fuel tank in the back, we recently installed a fuel gauge that allows us to run with only a few gallons of fuel in there. Weight in the back of an E27 is bad, so we try to crew with only two people in the cocpit (maybe a third if needed during tacks, jibes, etc.). The rest of the crew go up to the shrouds, and in light air we even have one or two in front of the mast.
Any unused items brought on board (clothing, sleeping bags, etc) go in the v-berth. Our cooler stays forward in the cabin.
This year I have been trying to wash the bottom often. Just before a race is optimal, but about twice a month does make a big difference. Last time I washed it it was over a month. On the way to cleaning the boat did 4.6-4.7 knots at 2000 rpm. on the way back it was doing 4.9-5.0!!! Thats a no-brainer!
Bottom paint is not perfect, but ok. Just using West Bottomsheild, but want to take it down to gelcoat and use VC17. Much better for Lake Erie in my opinion.
Biggest mistake I see all the other slow boats do is over-trim sails. Second biggest is under-trimming. You need to have telltales, and attentive crew!
I will be pulling the boat soon for the winter. I need to go through some extra effort to carefully measure my rigging settings so I can repeat it next season!
Anybody interested - let me know.
We have had a great season racing Thursday nights this year.
We usually place 2nd or 3rd out of 8-12 boats. We actually won the last series! We were even first over the finish line on two of the races (in one case beating an S-2 7.9 by just a few feet)
We have a newer main and jib (both are dacron) the jib is a 155% (largest allowed without a penalty) and we have roller furling which sacrfices a small amount of sail area at the foot, but gave us a 6 second cruising allowance.
We have fixed 2 blade prop. There are marks on the shaft coupler that indicate if the prop is lined up straight up an down. We keep it in gear, and use the hand crank on the A4 to line it up. (wish we could find a different prop, but folding wont fit without hitting rudder, and nobody seems to make a feathering prop small enough, or affordable enough)
Of course all extra weight is out of the boat, and with the fuel tank in the back, we recently installed a fuel gauge that allows us to run with only a few gallons of fuel in there. Weight in the back of an E27 is bad, so we try to crew with only two people in the cocpit (maybe a third if needed during tacks, jibes, etc.). The rest of the crew go up to the shrouds, and in light air we even have one or two in front of the mast.
Any unused items brought on board (clothing, sleeping bags, etc) go in the v-berth. Our cooler stays forward in the cabin.
This year I have been trying to wash the bottom often. Just before a race is optimal, but about twice a month does make a big difference. Last time I washed it it was over a month. On the way to cleaning the boat did 4.6-4.7 knots at 2000 rpm. on the way back it was doing 4.9-5.0!!! Thats a no-brainer!
Bottom paint is not perfect, but ok. Just using West Bottomsheild, but want to take it down to gelcoat and use VC17. Much better for Lake Erie in my opinion.
Biggest mistake I see all the other slow boats do is over-trim sails. Second biggest is under-trimming. You need to have telltales, and attentive crew!
I will be pulling the boat soon for the winter. I need to go through some extra effort to carefully measure my rigging settings so I can repeat it next season!
Anybody interested - let me know.