Originally Posted by
Philpott
But, Pat! None of those races have uniquely singlehanded events that score singlehanders separately. Singlehanders are at a real disadvantage because they are scored together with "shorthanders/doublehanders". You know this. I don't have to tell you this. And since you mention jibs, today I turned Dura Mater around in her upwind slip on O dock in Berkeley and poled out my jib with Bob's spinnaker and the sheets you gave me. Whoa! Really pulled that big fat stern of hers away from the dock. According to OCSC the wind just the other side of the seawall was 19 knots. Aside from the spinnaker whacking into my forestay once or twice, and falling into the water once, and the lines getting tangled on the wrong side of the clews, well I think it was a successful effort. At the dock. Let's see if I can do it on the way back from Drakes Bay. Singlehanded.