J 121

[jerseyguy]

6 hours ago, ryley said:

Same reason a J111 is 42 in PHRFNE and 36 or 33 anywhere else - PHRF sucks

J 111 base handicap on Lake Michigan is 39

[woodpecker]

On 8/28/2017 at 6:03 PM, woodpecker said:

Yes, My point is that the 122 takes a extra 9 sec a mile hit in NE vs if they were racing in NB. 

Why would one boat be 9 sec a mile faster in one body of water vs another that is 50 + or - miles away?

Sorry, My fault I should have explained it clearer.

 

7 hours ago, ryley said:

Same reason a J111 is 42 in PHRFNE and 36 or 33 anywhere else - PHRF sucks

Funny how the the 2 tops boat in the Buzzard Bay Regatta this year were a 111 and 120?  The two j-boats with the biggest PHRF-NE gift.

[crashtestdummy]

The Handicapper, Bump Wilcox,  won't change the 111 rating as he races on one! 

[sailman]

PHRF NE is a one man show?

[Crash]

Its so much easier to blame the committee, or person on the committee, than it is to just sail the boat you have to its full potential....

[jesposito]

17 hours ago, sailman said:

PHRF NE is a one man show?

Well at least the corruption is limited there

[Blur]

Lots of nerdy photos/details: http://www.blur.se/2017/09/26/j121-provsegling-newport-detaljer/

 

[Sarcoma]

Saw it in Bristol earlier today. Maybe leaving the jib up and furled all the time isn't the best for it.....

[jlightning]

Annapolis boat show over, anybody who saw the 121 care to share their thoughts of their impressions of the look, design and build. Thanks.

[Grey Dawn]

5 hours ago, jlightning said:

Annapolis boat show over, anybody who saw the 121 care to share their thoughts of their impressions of the look, design and build. Thanks.

It looked very good to me. Similar to a J120, not surprisingly. It's got some nice performance features like water ballast and an inhauler to adjust the jib sheeting angles. Controls were well set up in the cockpit. The interior looked fine for cruising as well. I didn't sail on it, though.

[Eagle]

First post in 10 months!

The 121, has existed now for 2 months and is being put through its paces.  Easily the most sophisticated, powered-up J, yet even easier to do more with than previous J efforts. 

[ryley]

On 9/7/2017 at 2:48 PM, sailman said:

PHRF NE is a one man show?

for all intents and purposes. they say there's a "committee" but so far it's mostly been Bump.

[ryley]

On 9/7/2017 at 5:02 PM, Crash said:

Its so much easier to blame the committee, or person on the committee, than it is to just sail the boat you have to its full potential....

J111 base ratings:

PHRF-NE: 42

ECSA: 36

YRALIS: 30

PHRF ELI: 39

So when you're sailing YOUR boat to its full potential in PHRF-NE, but the other skipper doesn't need to sail his to ITS full potential... you should feel happy that you sailed the boat to its potential and still lost? cool!

[RATM]

Those inhaulers are so clearly an after thought. That hardware is going to bang around and chip the hell out of everything. The real give away that they're an after the fact add on is the jib sheet rubbing the grap handle.

[Crash]

3 hours ago, ryley said:

J111 base ratings:

PHRF-NE: 42

ECSA: 36

YRALIS: 30

PHRF ELI: 39

So when you're sailing YOUR boat to its full potential in PHRF-NE, but the other skipper doesn't need to sail his to ITS full potential... you should feel happy that you sailed the boat to its potential and still lost? cool!

I know you know this, but have to see what other boats a J-111 would be racing against rate in those regions.  If every other boat in the J-111's YRALIS fleet rate the same in both PHRF-NE and YRALIS , then you have a great case.  If those other boats are rated the same or slower in YRALIS then they are in PHRF-NE, then you have less of a point.

PHRF is far from perfect.  But I generally have found the PHRF ratings on the J/Boats site to be pretty honest and realistic, whether I was racing a J/Boat I owned (J-24, J/109) or racing against J/Boats on the other boats I've owned (Bene First 30E, Santana 30/30, S2 9.1).  It says a J/111 is a 42 and the control boat, a J-44 is a 27.

OBTW there is only a 3 sec difference for the J-44's rating between PHRF-NE (27) and YRALIS (30)...so there is a +15 sec difference between a J-44 and a J-111 in both J/Boats recommended PHRF ratings and in PHRF-NE, yet YRALIS believes them to be even?  So it seems to be that YRALIS is way overly penalizing the J-111, and not the other way around...but I'm sure you can come up with other boats that make a different case. 

I guess my takeaway after racing in PHRF for 30 years is that life is too short to get all wrapped around the axle about ratings....if I'm on my boat, sailing with my buds, then I'm happy...If I win, great.  But its not my goal in PHRF.  If I wanted to be more serious, I wouldn't race PHRF.

[CrushDigital]

15 hours ago, RATM said:

Those inhaulers are so clearly an after thought. That hardware is going to bang around and chip the hell out of everything. The real give away that they're an after the fact add on is the jib sheet rubbing the grap handle.

I dunno, to me it looks like just about every other inhauler setup on a boat with a proper cabin.  There are some geometry issues you just can't do anything about.

On the other hand, maybe they look like an afterthought because it seems that the sheets are being led wrong.  is it possible the jib sheet is going straight back from the inhauler to the fairlead, skipping the jib car?  Maybe that's what J Boats intended, but then why bother installing a jib track at all, save the money and weight and spec free floating leads or small transverse tracks.

The biggest thing I don't love is the way all the wiring exits the mast above deck between the vang attachment and the mast base blocks.  That's a very busy area. Also, speaking as someone who spends a bit of time at the nav station, when the hell are designers going to stop making the nav table a storage area?  I can't think of any good reason to do that.

[ryley]

Crash,

I agree with your general feelings about PHRF and ratings and how wound up we should all get. But the fact is that every region is a crap shoot as to how boats in similar classes get hit. the 111 is definitely an outlier compared to most Jboats and how they're treated across different phrf areas, and there's some history to the 111 rating and how it got to 42 in the first place. That said, yes, it's mostly about the fun factor when you sail handicap

[Streetwise]

US Sailing members can download the current PHRF Fleets by Class document and see all the current National Reference Ratings, as well as compare regional data as reported to US Sailing.

http://www.ussailing.org/racing/offshore-big-boats/phrf-handicaps

J/111 NRR is 39

[Grey Dawn]

The inhaulers seem to have the effect of many parallel jib tracks.

It does get busy near the mast.

[RATM]

2 hours ago, CrushDigital said:

I dunno, to me it looks like just about every other inhauler setup on a boat with a proper cabin.  There are some geometry issues you just can't do anything about.

On the other hand, maybe they look like an afterthought because it seems that the sheets are being led wrong.  is it possible the jib sheet is going straight back from the inhauler to the fairlead, skipping the jib car?  Maybe that's what J Boats intended, but then why bother installing a jib track at all, save the money and weight and spec free floating leads or small transverse tracks.

The biggest thing I don't love is the way all the wiring exits the mast above deck between the vang attachment and the mast base blocks.  That's a very busy area. Also, speaking as someone who spends a bit of time at the nav station, when the hell are designers going to stop making the nav table a storage area?  I can't think of any good reason to do that.

Trust me, that setup has "cracked Plexiglas" written all over it. The last photo shows the inboard inhauler line OVER the vang line. You used the phrase "proper cabin". Maybe there are some boats where these things just don't belong.

My problem with these things is that for the average sailor, they're just noise. Your inhauler angle means shit when you sail on a knock for 3 minutes

[CrushDigital]

I can't agree at all that an inhauler is "just noise". They have just as large an impact on your ability to go upwind as just about any other single adjustment on the boat.  You're kind of crapping all over the average sailor if you don't think the crew can remember one additional setting. That same argument could be applied to just about everything beyond the sheet and halyard.  How's it any different from adjusting a jib car?

I'm not disagreeing that the configuration isn't ideal but I also don't think it's so horrible either.  The inhauler arrangement is very similar to what every 111 uses, and while sure if you don't put a few wraps of tape around the ring you risk scratching the gelcoat, I've honestly never seen issues beyond that.  Like most new boats, as more get into the hands of racers, the most optimal ways to rig them will be developed.

[Kack]

I thought the same things about the inhaulers, wiring and the midship deck in general. The inhaulers trapping the control lines to the deck really just looks like a hassle.  Trying to sneak a tack line out that’s pinned by an inhauler control line just seems frustrating. That stepped rail where the deck is glued on looks painful for hiking all day too. 

Time will tell. If the fleet builds to the sizes 

[Blur]

17 hours ago, CrushDigital said:

I can't agree at all that an inhauler is "just noise". They have just as large an impact on your ability to go upwind as just about any other single adjustment on the boat.  

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+1 I would argue that the infucker is essential on this type of boat, and the first thing people add on modern boat that doesn't have them.

The reason for the mix of "floating" and "track" on the J/121 is to give maximum flexibility for the sailmakers. We're seeing similar combos of track/soft on JPK/Figaro/Class 40s.

On damage, we've run unprotected rings on the J/111 for 12.000 nm, with just 2-3 small gelcoat dents.

[RATM]

2 hours ago, Blur said:

+1 I would argue that the infucker is essential on this type of boat, and the first thing people add on modern boat that doesn't have them.

The reason for the mix of "floating" and "track" on the J/121 is to give maximum flexibility for the sailmakers. We're seeing similar combos of track/soft on JPK/Figaro/Class 40s.

On damage, we've run unprotected rings on the J/111 for 12.000 nm, with just 2-3 small gelcoat dents.

You have to admit that the J/111 set up is much simpler. The 111 has a break in the hand rail to allow for the hardware to move around. 

[Blur]

2 hours ago, RATM said:

You have to admit that the J/111 set up is much simpler. The 111 has a break in the hand rail to allow for the hardware to move around. 

Yup. And the 121 will to (changed from #1)

The 111 is very well set up for the normal jibs, but when we run a J0 (code cut like a big jib, sheeted through the infucker) we're really pushing the limits. Ideally, we'd need 20 cm more track. This is addressed with the 121.

[A-NU-START]

On 10/16/2017 at 3:04 PM, RATM said:

Trust me, that setup has "cracked Plexiglas" written all over it. The last photo shows the inboard inhauler line OVER the vang line. You used the phrase "proper cabin". Maybe there are some boats where these things just don't belong.

My problem with these things is that for the average sailor, they're just noise. Your inhauler angle means shit when you sail on a knock for 3 minutes

You must be talking about the below-average sailor. Because anyone racing a boat with non overlapping headsails who ISN'T proficient at inhaulers will be shot out the back of the pack every time, without exception. Perfect tactics or not.