How does the PS22 handle a blow?

[Joe Sundstrom]

I've seen pictures of the PS22 in a cupful of wind, how about some in some real weather?

Anyone out there got photo evidence?

Joe

[Charlie Jones]

Joe- when we launched Pilgrim last October she was only the second Princess 22 completed. I don't know that anyone has had a chance to sail one in really strong winds, but from what I've heard about the sailing qualities, I don't doubt she'd do just fine.

[Travis Votaw]

I don't have any pics, but I've had Pilgrim, my Pr 22, out in some winds that required single reefs in main and mizzen. She handled just fine, balancing out about like in lessor winds. She seems to have a pretty powerful hull, and stands up well to the heeling forces. I don't believe I ever got the lee rail all the way down.

I'm guessing the wind was blowing at least twenty and gusting to around thirty. This was in a fairly small lake without too much wave action.

On our Pensacola cruise this year, we measured the wind blowinig at around twenty mph and we were sailing to weather under plain sail, no reefs. The boat handled it really well, and we did head up in the puffs. I think nearly all the other boats (trailer sailers) were reefed down to at least single reefs.

TV

[Joe Sundstrom]

And just what i thought i would hear, but empirical evidence in a case like this is best.

I will be sailing my PS 22 across some ocean straights (Juan de Fuca in Washington state, and the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia) and it can get rough.

Tavis, please don't bury the rail, that would be an act of vandalism with such an apparently sweet sailing vessel.

I hope to join you in PS 22 land in about a year or so.

Joe

[Travis Votaw]

LOL, Joe, I was in Victoria, BC last week on a ferry ride from Vancouver. Weather was spectacular with a very fine breeze blowing in from the Southwest. I was really wishing I had my boat there.

That is some of the prettiest water, islands, etc. I've ever seen. I'm envious of y'all who get to sail there.

I was on an Alaska cruise that ended in Vancouver. We came down the Straits of Georgia on the way in. Beautiful!

Boy, you have some tidal ranges and currents to deal with!

[Travis Votaw]

Here's a shot of Pilgrim on a windward beat in Pensacola Bay. It was a pretty good breeze.

TV

[mustangermatt]

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I have had my cs 17 on the Strait of Juan de Fuca with no problems. I am sure the p22 would also have done fine on the days I chose. I think the key is to pick your weather very carefully.

[Joe Sundstrom]

One time, crossing from Oak Bay, Victoria to Port Townsend, with wind and tide opposing each other all the way across. A long, wet day and i got pushed down onto the Dungeness spit, man, the waves really pile up there.

I should have known that the largest pod of orca i had ever seen heading the opposite direction, (and ahead of the approaching storm) was not a good omen.

I was out of money and out of time so i went for it.

It ended funny though. When i moored in Port Townsend and begon throwing all of my wet clothing and bedding out onto the dock, the fellow in the next slip said "so you crossed the strait today? Man, you must be one helluva sailor." to which i replied "Buddy, if i were a good sailor, i wouldn't have been out there."

I was just fortunate to have had a very good boat/rig that day, a Cap Cod Shipbuilidng Co. Cat Boat (looked very much like the one in my signature photo). That was the beginning of my total disdain for headsails and dreaming about the cat ketch.

Most of my crossings have been uneventful, even boring, however, as the winds in the summertime are fluky,