Brent Posted September 30, 2007 Posted September 30, 2007 Got a few hours to sail my CS20 yesterday. A variable wind took me up river a couple of miles. Coming around the bend I notices a number of sails on the water ahead...I had forgotten about the big regatta this weekend. This is the first year in many I have not been crewing aboard a keel boat in this annual regatta. Knowing all the boats and skippers I decided to sail up to watch the action for a bit. Running a deep reach I arrived parrallel to the windward race course mark as about half the boats had rounded and started their downwind leg. I took care to keep well clear of the race, and continued running a course parrallel to the racers. This fleet is an eclectic mix of mostly keel boats ranging from 24 footers up to 40 footers. Many of the boats carry high tech racing sails and spinakers. The competition is friendly but intense. Here is the point of this little story: Running a deep reach with two cat ketch sails flying on a CS20 we rolled over 29 boats racing on a coarse parrallel to mine, we arrived at point parrallel to the lee mark before the race leaders. I ran a little further on, then headed up to watch the last windward leg to the finish from a clear distance. Running a typical CS close hauled coarse we did no worse than keep pace with the racing fleet. Perhaps this is a reasonable place to celebrate the speed of these CS boats. I wouldn't want to say to much about rolling over the race fleet at the after race watering hole. While I never built the CS to be a race boat, it has proved to be plenty quick. Over the years I have accumulated a number of stories like this. May this provide some inspiration to those of you building. And to those of you already sailing...sail on. Quote
Charlie Jones Posted September 30, 2007 Posted September 30, 2007 Sounds like fun. I don't know anything about the CS20, but the Princess 22 I built for Travis two years ago has sparked enormous notice about how fast she is, and how well she stands up to her canvas. Travis and Pilgrim have showed her heels to a number of very surprised sloop sailors. Hard to windward in our Meridian 25, we were JUST able to slowly walk him, but as soon as we cracked sheets, he was right there again ;D And off on a broad reach, with our working sails only , he walked away. And we all know what Graham and Blue Heron did in the EC!! Quote
Charlie Jones Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 :'( OOPS- GREEN Heron- the CS 17 he won the EC with in 06. My bad!! Quote
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