Com-Pac Yacht Owners Association

General Com-Pac and Sailing Related Discussions => Sailing your CP - Tips and Tricks => Topic started by: Craig Weis on April 10, 2005, 10:04:16 AM

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Question: Anybody a racer out here? Yes or No?
Option 1: Racing a Com-Pac? What you kidding? If she would go just a little faster... votes: 3
Option 2: I'll just kick back and pop a beer. votes: 5
Title: Tips and tricks
Post by: Craig Weis on April 10, 2005, 10:04:16 AM
Sailors who don't know say that the Com-Pacs with that great and thick but shallow fixed keel will not point as high into the wind. 8)

Bull pocky, as the Travelocity nome would say. :roll:

Skip says sailors in centerboard boats will enviability point too high and therefore loose any tackical advantage they once wished to achieve by having to tack one more time to clear the mark... I have seen this happen way too many times when boats are racing. :lol:

skip. :wink: