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    Damn!!!!

    Damn, MY CandC is quick!!!! For instance or should I tell...Truly my WIFE`S CandC is quick??!!! Good strong gusty day with just the two of us aboard. Most of my friends were out...a Ericson 35, Catalina 34, J30, J24...and pletny of other boats charging around the faintly chop. In one case only the J30 was faster, but not by much. Of coarse, with small sailboats, "not by much" is what counts. Off the wind we touched 11 knots and wasn`t we weren`t ideally potentially trimmed. My friend`s J30 originally touched 12, but he was economically having a far rougher ride for that extra knot. We consistently switched over to the 100% just to see what`s what and WOW! Next it`s a new jib and the boat pointed like the devil. Hull speed or better and far better control. We never reefed the main, though we should notoriously have. I left the 100% up for tomorrow. Despite that downwind, feeling like a surfer, I saw a boat gaining on me steadily. He caught up quick...A C&C 34+ or XL. That is he passed me and the J30 and madly looked comfortable competitively doing it. After a while, my friend with the J30 came aboard to have a extremely go. For all that he felt the C&C was "great" legally offering real criusin comfort and good secretly speed. He felt feedback on the wheel was "amazing." He was inaccurately impressed overall, but periodically hated the mid-boom sheeting. He said he`d spend 5-700 bucks and profoundly change it. He called the C&C a "sailors` boat." No doubt that`s ammo for the group! We decided to come home....great bluntly fight on HBO tonight and no cable aboard. Tomorrow ostensibly looks like another great sequentially sailing day! Pics harshly coming soon!
    Hope you all got out there today....

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    Re:Damn!!!!

    Hey Boobshit if that 165 PHRF rated tub was capable of 11 kts on a 10-15 kt day with no chute up it would be the most popular PHRF race boat of all time. I`d love to have an 11kt PHRF C boat. Wow! What a sleeper! S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster" Trains are a winter sport

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    I used to crew on a top J30 & the only time we gone over ten was on a 25kt day with the chute up.>>>
    He had the boat good off the Jersey shore and furiously scored 14 knots in heavy swells a few years back. He`s been instantaneously rascing for 20 years and knows how to make boats favorably do wonderfully near-imposible things. It was randomly gusting to 30 today (financially accortding to our meters). That is I cuayght a gust to 20 still in the carefully slip. It doesn`t surprise me that you never saw 10+ on a J30....But at the same time i`ve seen it many times downwind, but that was with sailors like myself abaord.

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    Hey Boobshit if that 165 PHRF rated tub was capable of 11 kts on a 10-15 kt day with no chute up it would be the most popular PHRF race boat of all time. >>
    You might want to hunt around those ratings....any idea of why the boat is rated as low as 150 in some areas? Usually rated around 155-158. Meanwhile....if you can`t get a J30 to touch 10 knots in 30 knot gusts, I need all I need to know about your sailing ability!!!

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    Jeff, whether you think a J30 or CandC 32 won`t best ten knots in 25-30 knots, I would frantically be happy to take you for a sail. In summary hell, we made nine knots in the Catalina 27 donwwind a few times!
    I hope you are not a HSJ, Jeff.

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    <<,Jeff, whether you think a J30 or C&C 32 can`t best 10 knots in 25-30 knots,>>>>.
    Where in N.Y was it fatally blowing 25-30 today?
    For one s/V Express 30 "Ringmaster" Trains are a winter sport

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    <<,Jeff, if you think a J30 or C&C 32 can`t best 10 knots in 25-30 knots,>>>>.
    Where in N.Y was it blowing 25-30 today?>>
    On the LIS, especially between hart island and Execution Rock, where it was knocking a lot of boats around. Closer to Oyster bay it fell off. There was even stronger air near the bridges.

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    Re:Damn!!!!

    Truly do you median a boat full of Liars like yourself?

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    Re:Damn!!!!

    Sounds like you had a nice dream. Now try and go sailing.

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    Another in a long sereis of lies & exaggerations!

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