Conference unifix::sailing

.0�    Are there any other Wayfarer racers out there ?
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		Thats a very early number??
      
    I don't sail a Wayfarer, but I know that there are 1 or 2 that race
    reasonably regularly at Burgfield (just near junction 12 on the
    M4, just outside Reading, UK).
  
    Cheers, Chris  
        

    Thanks for the tip, Chris. I was hoping that there may be other
    Wayfarer sailors in the conference who would be willing to share
    tuning information, sail choice etc.
    
    My biggest issue at the moment is what to do about force 4+. I've
    got an old but good sail that I'm thinking of getting cut down to
    give me a balanced sail pattern when racing with the small jib.
    The duration of the races I currently get involved in usually preclude
    any dramatic changes in wind speed and I'm not thrilled with racing
    the Wayfarer while reefed - I have to roll the sail round the boom
    and that invariably mucks up the profile.
    
    I'd like to hear from people with an opinion on the relative merits of
    racing with cut down sails compared to racing with full rig and
    sloughing the excess wind.
    
    Yes, 1031 is about a 23 year old woody - but it don't half fly!
    
    Jon
    

    Anybody use the Wayfarer for daysailing, or is it all racing??
    
    Ross Faneuf
    

    As I understand it, the Wayfarer is the only dinghy which is
    extensively used for both cruising and racing. The class is equally
    divided in terms of people who actually register themselves as one
    or the other.
    
    Some of the more memorable trips have been UK to Iceland, Scandinavia
    and Spain - not bad for an open 15'9" boat !
    
    I would suspect that the vast majority of Wayfs are used as either
    day sailers or training boats - both in the UK, the US and Canada.
    I remember learning to sail in one on the Charles in Boston many
    years ago.
    
    The racing attraction for me is simply that the class has maintained
    strict design and material rules throughout its 30 year life. Which
    leads to race winners by competence rather than bank accounts. The
    rules allow both wood and glass and it's a measure of the soundness
    of the class technical committee that race honours are more or less
    equally divided. Recent world champs have included sail #88 - a
    29 year old woody and #8035 a 2 year old glass boat.
    
    The only negative thing about Wayfs, as far as I'm concerned is
    that while they're hard to tip up and easy to right, there's no
    way of quickly clearing the water out of the hull. The aft buoyancy
    tank prevents transome flaps and the class rules limit the size
    of self bailers. A spill usually results in a biceps and bucket
    job combined with a delicate attempt to get the boat up to a speed
    where the bailers will start functioning - not at all easy in a
    blow. Still, that prospect adds a certain spice to race decisions.
    
    It probably comes across that I'm a fan of this class - I've sailed
    quite a number of other classes as both skipper and crew and I always
    come back to this one. I remember a comment someone made in a mixed
    class handicap, a couple of years ago, to the effect that the Wayfarer
    was the only boat in the race, the rest of them where just different
    types of planks with sails.
    
    Jon
    

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STAR::KENNEY                                         17 lines  21-JUL-1994 16:54
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    	A friend of mine was given a boat in exchange for some 
    carpentry work he did.  The person who owned it had no idea what it
    was.  He was about to take a chain saw to it and convert it into a row 
    boat.  It looks a lot like a Wayfarer and is roughly the correct size.  
    The problem is that the sails it came with don't fith the mast and boom,
    and don't match the logo for a Wayfarer.  The logo on the sail looks a
    little like a smiling Goblin crossed with the Tin man from the Wizard
    of Oz movie.
    
    	So anybody have a guess what kind of boat the sails would go to. 
    Additionally, anybody know what the length of the luff, and the foot of
    a Wayfarer main is.  We measured the boom and it is about 9'-6"/2.9m
    and the luff with the boom at a reasonable height is about 19'-5"/5.9m.
    
    
    Forrest