Two seasons have gone by and we are readying ourselves for season three! After many hours on the water we got a pretty good feel for our running rigging choices. Check out the rationale from the detailed article I wrote in two years back (here). At the time, I satContinue Reading
The popular VC17m produced by International Yacht Paint will be retired from the market on May 6th 2024 and prohibited its use from November 8th 2024. So what now? I was hoping in a conversion paint that can be over coated, however, International reply is “If you want to continueContinue Reading
Practice makes perfect. It is said that you need 10.000 hours of any specific activity to master it. It is said that the more you practice, the luckier you get. When it comes to sailing, time on the water clearly pays off. Not having grown up sailing dingies, we areContinue Reading
I need picking your brain and get some ideas… As you know, we are kicking off our first season aboard a J/80. We have done the theory… now we need to start collecting real sailing data, to compare with our theoretical and fine tune it. And because we are aContinue Reading
Have we just got slower? All other things equal, Veloce’s new sail inventory seems to rate very well. We designed sails for all-round performance and ease of handling, without a care for rating. As it turns out, we rate “slower” than the standard J/80 One Design configuration. The Swedish systemContinue Reading
New sails arrived. Splash 4 weeks away. Time to get nerdy and look at some numbers. Some time ago I wrote our reasoning behind the new sail inventory for Veloce, here the article. Not interested in following the J/80 one design class rules, nor wanting to optimise for round-the-buoy racing,Continue Reading
Back on track after Xmas! Time to prepare for the coming season. Still a long to-do list, but we are slightly working our way through it. Do you also feel as if that list grows forever, no matter how many items you tick off? After getting new clothes (here aboutContinue Reading
We kicked off 2021 with an upgraded sail inventory and some important changes. A re-built inhauler system (here full article); changed from roller furling to hanks (full article) and new outboard leads for both genoa and jib. Two months in the season, let us look at upgrades, additions and reflections.Continue Reading
The latest upgrade is a new jib and genoa inhauler system to match the new headsail inventory. How it works A jib inhauler allows a smaller sheeting angle, it reduces the slot between jib and main and makes it possible for the mainsail to be sheeted further in. The ideaContinue Reading
Some time ago I wrote about the ORC Speed Guide (here my previous article ORC Speed Guide), one of the ORC services available to its members. I promised that, as soon as the new sail inventory landed, I would request a speed guide for Veloce and describe what we gotContinue Reading