Hi everyone, and sorry for the long delay between posts. The winter is over here in Norway and spring is here, and most people are preparing for the season. Silverminken has spent the winter in the water, so will need a lifting to get the hull up to speeds, but haven't gotten around to that yet.
Margie has asked before about experiences with IRC rating and how well the boats sail to that potential.
Silverminken has an ORC Club certificate, which gives it:
GPH 652.8
Offshore Time-On-Distance 627.8
Offshore Time-On-Time 0.9558
Inshore Time-On-Distance 708.3
Inshore Time-On-Time 0.9530
I personally feel that I still have a lot of boat-handling issues to resolve before I could actually comment on the figures themselves, but racing against other boats I feel that for longer races, especially offshore we are really competitive, whereas more constricted courses (plain windward/leeward) it is a little harder to keep up. Though this I feel is more due to the nature of the boats than the rating.
So for those of you who have gotten your boats rated/measured for IRC - could you please comment with what rating you have and if you feel you are able to sail up to (or above, if that is the case) this potential?
2 comments:
We are considering buying a used Elan 310 for sailing in the San Francisco Bay area, and I really appreciate all the information on your blog. The boat we are looking at has the swing pedestal wheel, standard depth keel and displacement. We currently race an Open 570 in a one design fleet and plan to use this boat for informal club racing, lightweight cruising, and more casual sailing than the 570 permits.
There are no other Elans in the SF Bay, so we have little sense of the likely PHRF rating we will end up with. Can you add any insight? (recognizing that this boat does not have the racing package that yours does)
The winds here are typically quite strong, so we are particularly interested in your observations on stability in 20-25 knots as it is our desire to double hand most of the time.
Thanks for such an informative blog!
Cathy
Hi,
I have an Elan 320s, ORC is 642,9, which ist heute losest factor i found onnorc.org
THW Wright is 3.680kg, which is the only Variable i See Compressor to the other elan 310 and 320 Benig better.
When Racing, i have Almosen oder Chance to win Rating Based vs. Dehler 29, winner 10,20, ...
I feel like somethinf is wring. Does anyone has an idea?
My boat van be found in ORC.org over the Name lalli or Sail no. GER 7296
Thanks kai
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