S2 7.9 Meter Class Association

I was looking at some of the 7.9 race photos and it appears that some of the boats sheet the #3 INSIDE the shrouds with the sheet block at the front end of the forward large window.
Am I seeing this correctly?

I have a similar "reverse mast bend" on #352 (with max rake). I attribute some of it to the way the mast was stored on the boat and the middle pulled down too hard for trailering and storage. When I set up the boat in the spring I pull as much backstay tension as I can get, then set up the...

Dave,

I can only take credit for the Capri 22 set-up ... the 7.9 set up is "as bought"

dave wrote:Nice rigging Harrison!

Not to hijack Josh, but how was your first outing at the Equalizer?

IMG_8040 Cropped Tweaked.JPG IMG_1255 Cropped Tweaked.JPG Windward sheeting works well if you can arrange to pull horizontally relative to the plane of the traveler. I prefer the "Brady Cleat" approach with two cam cleats on an angle bracket fixed to the cockpit side. Go to http://www.aps...

Gargle Blaster, #352
Sandusky, Ohio

Tim & JD, Thanks for your helpful thoughts. The zip-tie is a genius idea! We sent a young man up in the bosun's chair and got the job done with a bit of fishing. Started with a length of parachute cord on which was strung a stack of steel (not stainless) nuts having outside diameter of about 3/8...

Hello, Our genoa halyard broke about 1 foot from the shackle ... after the finish of the race. The cover has been stripped (by a previous ownler) from the in-mast portion of the line. The last 2 feet of core at the shackle end are a litle thinner and fuzzier than the rest of the core. So, I have two...

I was considering only the forward end of the cockpit at the companionway bridgedeck I haven't sailed on a boat on which boat that it works well ... the traveller is awkward to use when racing (esp. if you want to pull it to windward of centerline), and when cruising the main sheet is in the way of...

For various reasons, PHRF handicaps are sometimes tweaked up/down a few seconds/mile for all the boats in a given region. So, the important thing is how your rating compares to the PHRF handicap of a similarly rated "base boat" (e.g., J24) that has well-known performance characteristics on...

Two questions: (1) What happened to those mid-90's 7.9 boats? (2) What would be so terrible about having the boats built in China or Bulgaria? If they could be certified as "one-design equivalent" wouldn't that be a really good thing for the 7.9 class? I know that the Tartan 10 re-do wasn'...

However, the moment of inertia is reduced and the angular velocity in response to a puff will be impressively increased!

A 7.9 with the board up has a better righting moment than a J24....with the keel down

The helm will tell you when there's too little centerboard -- you get lee helm!

Raise the CB until the helm is neutral...then drop it a little for reserve. It's a standard dinghy approach.

I crewed on a 7.9 in the 2006 Islands Race (Lake Erie, out of Sandusky). Winds were southerly (offshore) and moderately puffy, at the upper range of the #1 with crew of 5. We had an invaluable short guy with big biceps playing the genoa from the windward rail and had great speed without a lot of kno...

Quite a few years ago we had several non-7.9 boats frozen in "accidentally" part-way to the launch ramp during a quick Iowa late-late-season freeze. The hulls did just fine ... but the boats were easy targets for vandals during the winter and the owners lost a lot of gear.

I think you're supposed to top off the VC-17m with VC thinner, so you end up with a full quart. I suspect that has something to do with having a little spare space at the top of the can when you mix in the powder so it doesn't run all over the outside of the can when stirring ... or maybe it's more ...