h23 Wins

[Darrel Richards]

On April 15th we sailed in the Hillsboroto West Palm race, conducted by the OldPort Yacht Club in North Palm Beach Florida. We are proud and happy to inform that my 1988 h23 won the race boat for boat by over 30 minutes corrected time. We sailed against a Tartan 37, An S2 9.2, a Catalina 27, aHunter 25, a Catalina 32, a Beneteau 1st 35 and a Watson 36. This littleh23 has a clean bottom, a new 135% jiband a new main, all made by SuperSails in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. The main is openfooted and we use a Forespar adjustable1- 1/2 inch wisker pole to hold out the jib, when necessary. The wind was SSEat 10-15, and seas 2-4 for this 33 milecoastal race.

 

[Greg Stebbins]

Congrats!!!

What was your elapsed time?

 

[Greg Stebbins]

And another thing....

Darrel,I'd like to here more particulars please. I'm especially interested in the loose-footed main. How'd it work? Can you compare to a normal mainsail. Have you tried reefed?

 

[Darrel Richards]

Elapsed Time

Total actual elapsed time was 5:47:38actual and 4:01:23 corrected. They givethis boat a rating of 255 for this race.The new main is open footed and is really easy to open up for down wind,we created a nice shape to the sail.Going up wind it is much easier to harden up. We have not reefed this sailat this point. We do have a splitbackstay adjuster and have used this todepower the main in gusts. Have notreally had conditions that we wereoverpowered. Would expect in winds over15-18 knots that we would go to the100% and leave the main alone and see what happens. The main does have onereef point and is fairly easy to reef if necessary.