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The blustery conditions that have pummeled the Sunfish and Laser fleets since the regatta in June have deserted us in July. Racing on Saturday was cancelled due to lack of wind, and this week's Wednesday Double Secret series was almost as windy.
The light winds gave both Gary Werden and Mark Stoughton the chance to try out light air rig configurations that they had both heard about recently. Gary rigged the new "Light Air Jens", while Mark sailed with his sails set as flat as possible with the gooseneck moved back several inches.
Gary, with the Light Air Jens, proved faster on all upwind points of sail. The rigs performed virtually the same downwind, but upwind, Gary just walked away from Mark, who found that the flattened sails improved pointing and eliminated weather helm, but they also stalled very easily, killing boat speed. Gary had no such problems, beating Mark by about 100 yards.
Neither of them were able to counter the huge sail area of the Flying Scots, with their jibs and spinnakers. They had all passed Mark by midway through the third leg and three four of four had passed Gary by the start of the fourth leg.
Double Secret Wednesday Series Results are here: http://mycsunfish.blogspot.com/p/2014-unoseries.html
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