Sailing in your 80% Healthspan

Just a morning coffee doodle, 

(Sorry about font size, don’t know why it sometimes does this)

Back again.....I'm not sure if I am a journalist who does Championships RO, or a Race Officer who writes a bit - either way it is a good combination as you  get the best view in the house as the fleet are sailing. At their more recent even down at Arun SC, I was able to pull the racing forward as the forecast on Day 3 was starting light and getting lighter until 'nothing'.... so I watched the boat across a spread of conditions. The performance in the light stuff is fine.....for those sailors with the knowledge of how to change their rig from one mode to another. The difference between the leaders, who had this cracked - the mid fleet, who knew that changes were needed but didn't get them right and the tail.... who were still stuck in 'medium winds' mode was   so obvious to us on the Committee Boat to be a topic of much conversation. I've sailed the boat in a range of weather (as an 'older' man) and don't think the boat is over canvassed - if you really want to get the feel for this try the earlier H1 which begat the H2 - the rig is even bigger and makes the boat an even better performer in light to medium conditions, but more of a handful in breeze. Once you get used to the boat it doesn't seem too big.... a lot less than the Blaze and it is a much nicer boat than the Blaze (and the HALO) to sail in light airs. Like every new boat, people are still working out which way to rig it works best - there are people sailing with a centre mainsheet on a bridle, on a track, transom sheeting - unlike some other SMODS, how you rig it is left open, but it does result in a wider spread of how people sail it.

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