Photo made by Kirt Simmons (Taipan4.9 / F16 class)



It will take a day or two to get all the pics up but boy do we have a couple of nice ones despite the weather. And indeed quite a few of the F18HT's too. One picture together with an I-20 on a perfect line going down wind under Spi. And ofcourse the F16's four of them racing and close enough to be in one shot all under spi.





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thanks so much Wouter ,-great that you made the flight over to help get things going , -The weather was light but that is sailing ,-hope you enjoyed yourself and had a good time.



-Recall someone yelling from one of the pontoon boats as I looked over and waved when the photo was taken between races I think , -hopefully we were not racing then , we look kind of relaxed .

Looking forward to seeing all the photos , anywhere in the world it is always wonderfull to see so many catsailors all racing together.

Have fun

Carl

Yes Carl, that was me yelling at you between the races- During the races we were usually so far away I couldn't get a nice closeup like that. The professional photographer on the boat with me NEVER even got his camera out! I loaded up my disk while trying to keep my camera out of the rain-

Good to see you again!

Good luck in the Worrell!!



Kirt

Wouter

thanks for the great photos Kirt ,-

thought that was you ,but when everyone has a baseball hat and sun glasses on your never sure ,-



David L is steering here in the photo, looking relaxed ,-

Stop by if your near the Worrell checkpoints during the race .



fUNNY ,-When I first saw this post because of an earlier post made about spin setups and hardware list imagined someone caught a photo of me in an embarising pose ,

-if you also have that one ,just delete it ,-thanks {joking}



post copy



-carbon spin pole from sailing proshop: 156.00

: new 6.0 smyth spin @ 350 sq. ft.: 965.00? (aprox)

: carbon snuffer head from dave white, a north east 6.0 sailor: 300.00

: adapted snuffer bag from skip elliot: 110.00

: slightly longer bridle wires: 80.00

: additional expenses included the hailard, spinlock, and extraneous pieces of line

: with a total cost of just over $1600.00



{-added humor }--peeing off the side of the boat behind the spin in privacy ,-priceless ,---



have fun

Carl

Thanks for the spinaker equipment list. Looking at the photo, couldn't make out whay kind of spin furler drum you are using. Looks smaller than stock furler. Want to add a furler to my Inter 20, wondering if there is any better set up that stock Harken gear?



Bruce

Alameda, CA

Hi Bruce

Performance makes a stock furler available ,-they are nice between races ,-

The spin list was provided by Chris T -as applied to a 6/0 -

only the added humor was mine , a parady on the visa t v commercial ,---- my offbeat sence of humor coming through again , -



-Here is a copy of the post on the old forum by Chris T -it is a good one -

Posted by Chris Titcomb on April 07, 19102 at 08:05:42:



In Reply to: Photo posted by Rod on April 06, 19102 at 16:20:12:



Rod and all else who might be interested~

I have some pics of my boat with the spin/snuffer set up. I was at spring fever racing with this set up on my boat, Accelerated Chaos, and it seemed to worked great! I had a blast and don't see the need to change much after this initial regatta with the 'new' snuffer rig. More time and exerience with a kite around the bouys and I believe it will be competitive with most I20's out there, as proven by Rick Bliss at SF.

email me and I can send you pictures:

magichat4@hotmail.com



just as a side note, I spent less than 2K putting the rig together. 2K is a good estimate to plan on, but lower costs can be achieved. my prices included:

carbon spin pole from sailing proshop: 156.00

new 6.0 smyth spin @ 350 sq. ft.: 965.00? (aprox)

carbon snuffer head from dave white, a north east 6.0 sailor: 300.00

adapted snuffer bag from skip elliot: 110.00

slightly longer bridle wires: 80.00

additional expenses included the hailard, spinlock, and extraneous pieces of line

with a total cost of just over $1600.00



The deal with the spin head from Dave white is that he started building them as an alternative to the Inter heads that cost almost $200 more. (At one time he worked for Hall Spars) they are 100% carbon, aprox 2/3rds the weight of the inter heads, flat to give more wave clearance, and about 3/4" wider. I was amazingly happy with how mine worked and found that it accepted the 'football' that gathers in the larger sails more readily than the I20 heads did when I tried them. I believe he has plans to build more of these, but would certainly check with him before making any promises.

Rick Bliss at newengland catamarans was a great resourse for information and parts to put this system together. He is selling a snuffer head from austrailia that is also flatter and lighter for I believe $400, which is still a $75 savings over the Inter factory heads. I used this head as well and was very happy with it. I would suggest that anyone who is thinking of adding a snuffer system to their 6.0 talk to him about it and tap into his experience of the development that has happened here in the northeast.

once again, if you would like to see pics of this rig or hear more about it, feel free to contact me. I worked at putting this rig together this winter and would be glad to discuss what I have found so far.

sail fast and have fun~

Chris Titcomb

N6.0na 135, accelerated chaos