We are currently not sailing under ORC, however the ORC Speed Guide is the latest tool I have fallen in love with. Let me tell you more. During past seasons I have gone crazy trying to obtain polar diagrams and target heel angles from Jeanneau for Veloce (polars available here).Continue Reading
In times when roller furling technologies become ever more alluring, Veloce goes back to traditional jib hanks. Why? The Jeanneau Sun Fast 32i, at the time of its production, came off the factory with a Facnor r130. This used to be Facnor’s racing complete furling system. It consists of aContinue Reading
I was supposed to write this earlier on this spring, however, it did not happen and now a long time due, let us view at one of the performance optimization carried on during the past winter: sharpening the trailing edges of underwater foils. The keel trailing edge comes from theContinue Reading
After underwater race finish (part 1 part 2 and part 3) in 2019, the one priority in 2020 is to try out a new and complete shorthand sail inventory. It consists of mainsail, medium jib, heavy jib, light, all-purpose and heavy spinnakers. As main and medium/heavy jib gave up on the lastContinue Reading
1. Sailed not aggressively enough for lack of confidence. In all of the 3 of the 4 major races we have not sailed at full potential, reducing sail to avoid messing up the taking a reef when it would get airy, or not deploying appropriate downwind sail area to avoidContinue Reading
During the previous seasons we have struggled with the main halyard. As soon as we turned upwind or the wind freshened up, the halyard would glide about 4cm through the clutch on the coachroof. The Sun Fast comes from the factory mounting Spinlock XAS clutches with cams for ropes betweenContinue Reading