Sometimes things are too good to be true. Remedy's performance this year
has been excellent, but our sailing season has come to an abrupt halt.
During this year's Ram Island race we ripped a bulkhead out and suffered
serious damage to the deck. Sailing upwind in 15-17 knots with a heavy
#1 and full main the starboard tie rod broke which caused the bulkhead
to pull completely off the hull. The hardest part to face is we only had
one mile to the finish! After two long spinnaker reaches with our .6 asymmetric
Remedy had put some serious distance on the fleet. Our main competitors
have been a fast group of J-29s and Santana 30/30s. We have enjoyed some
very tight racing with them, check out our summer series results at mudhead.org.
Through tuning and an aggressive sail development program we've found
our stride and don't planon stopping here. Remedy will be hauled in the
next two weeks and the repairs will begin. We plan on doing a complete
redesign of the bulkheads. Having two former boat builders as part of
our crew may prove to be valuable! Stay tuned, we'll be back.
The rest of the fleet managed to stay together and enjoy a wonderful day of racing. For complete results go to www.ramislandyachtclub.org
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One sail that proved quite valuable to the E32 on this reachy around the island race was a PHRF legal asymmetric spinnaker. Need one for your boat? Call 860-536-4235 or email.