Jib Top for Cruising in the PNW?
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Somebody Else
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Have the sailmaker throw in a few cringles in there too. No need for flapping. But...
Re: your original query about adding a jib top to your inventory:
My take for cruising is a simple 4 sail inventory:
- Main, of course.
- High-clewed genoa.
- Working jib with reef points.
- Cruising spinnaker.
The high-clewed genoa is not a dedicated jib top. Just get the foot high enough off the deck so that you can see boats to leeward of you and the clew high enough that you don't need to move the fairlead [much] when you crack off.
Working jib with angled reef points so the reefed sail sheets to the same position as the unreefed sail. Reefed, it becomes a small #4/storm jib.
Spinnaker should tend toward a reaching cut as opposed to deep running. You want to narrow that inventory gap between the high-clewed genoa and the spinnaker.
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I like the sail inventory and see how it applies to a lot of people. In the BC South Coast the issue is I'm always beating or running in the various channels (with the exception of the previously mentioned Strait of Georgia crossings). This has led me to focus the Genoa on upwind performance; especially when my beat VMG is 3-4kts towing a dinghy. I also get my best run VMG pointing DDW in anything over ~10kts so I use the Symmetric kite a lot.
Here's a 'shitty' polar set I made myself by interpolating from a C&C 25 and C&C 30's polars. Has been pretty accurate to my past experience but there's a couple wonky crossovers.
C&C 29mk2
Hull Speed
6.33
(from Hull Speed Interpolation of C&C 25 and C&C 30 Polars)
TWS
6
8
10
12
14
16
20
TWA
43.8
42.9
43.4
42.5
41.7
41.5
42.2
AWA
26.8
27.7
29.1
29.5
30.2
31.1
33.4
AWS
9.21
11.73
14.14
16.46
18.50
20.51
24.44
VMG (Beat)
2.81
3.31
3.70
4.03
4.13
4.18
4.15
BS (Beat)
3.90
4.52
5.09
5.47
5.53
5.57
5.60
52°
4.32
5.07
5.59
5.86
5.99
6.05
6.06
60°
4.60
5.37
5.79
6.02
6.16
6.24
6.27
75°
4.82
5.56
5.94
6.16
6.35
6.50
6.65
90°
4.78
5.64
6.09
6.32
6.50
6.67
6.98
110°
4.89
5.77
6.20
6.54
6.84
7.07
7.35
120°
4.74
5.67
6.15
6.51
6.85
7.16
7.60
135°
4.34
5.27
5.93
6.30
6.03
6.98
7.63
150°
3.74
4.65
5.44
5.98
6.31
6.63
7.25
VMG (Run)
3.24
4.03
4.74
5.40
5.88
6.22
6.82
TWA
148.5
152.2
153.9
168.5
180.0
180.0
180.0
AWA
112.9
124.0
130.1
159.0
180.0
180.0
180.0
AWS
3.40
4.50
5.75
6.69
8.12
9.78
13.18
BS (Run)
3.80
4.56
5.28
5.51
5.88
6.22
6.82
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A few years ago, as a chip guy myself, we designed a really tiny MPU for the IoT. Our fab partner was getting 2,000+ from an 8" wafer, and that was on 180nm mixed signal. They produced lots of expensive silicon dust when dicing them. He announced one day that he was getting a yield of 101.5%. WTF? Yes, our individual dies were so small he was counting some good ones round the edges. Rather than testing all the dies on-wafer, we packaged them all, and tested later. Cheaper.
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