Ranger type yacht by Mark Pearse - 1:12 - SMALL

[KeithAug]

Top left - looks like someone had an accident! Excellent detailing Mark.

 

 

[Jim Lad]

Great weathering, Mark!

 

John

[Mark Pearse]

thanks all, & off theme for a minute, a couple of photos from sailing last Saturday - the subject yacht on the start line:

 

And it got quite gusty later in the day:

[Rick310]

Amazing!!

Rick

[KeithAug]

Hmmm! lee rail in the water, better reduce sail.

[Jim Lad]

Great photos, Mark.

 

John

 

[Veszett Roka]

19 hours ago, KeithAug said:

Hmmm! lee rail in the water, better reduce sail.

... or ask the guy who wearing black baseball cap to come up from lee. Reducing sails in a race? Thats nonsense!

Edited Friday at 01:53 PM by Veszett Roka
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[KeithAug]

6 hours ago, Veszett Roka said:

Reducing sails in a race? Thats nonsense

Hmmm, it might go faster and point better without the rail submerged. 🙂

[Mark Pearse]

7 hours ago, Veszett Roka said:

or ask the guy who wearing black baseball cap to come up from lee

Hi Veszett, it's worse than you thought.....you can't see that here is a fifth crew to leeward of "the black cap", for safety we always have someone stationed to leeward.

 

1 hour ago, KeithAug said:

it might go faster and point better without the rail submerged

Hi Keith, I agree with that, but on balance over that race we were faster not reefed. Certainly for racing you're always looking for a way to get an advantage, & we tend to set the sails for the average breeze & do what we can in the gusts. 

[KeithAug]

On 12/12/2025 at 10:00 PM, Mark Pearse said:

tend to set the sails for the average breeze & do what we can in the gusts. 

Yes Mark. I remember being very keen on changing sails up to the age of about 50 and thereafter being much less fussy about being over or under sailed. With advancing years "spilling wind" became the preferred strategy. Fortunately roller reefing provided some relief.  I do remember my sailing pal commenting frequently that "I see keith is over sailed again". I guess with more traditional boats sail changes are somewhat more time consuming.