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Cowie,
There are two answers to your question. What you were lacking is rail meet  
and the second answer is: you had to much sail out for the conditions. It 
would  be hard for me to explain in my current inebriated state, but trust 
me. The more  you sail and try different approaches to problems, the better 
off you will be.  Don't be afraid to push her to limits. Stan has built an 
exception boat that is  both a pleasure to sail, and also very forgiving to 
those that sail on the  edge. Your speeds, along with the conditions warrants 
that I officially place  you in the "Extreme" Rhodes 22 hall of fame. This is 
a very elite group of  sailors and drunks.   
Congratulations. To finish off your indoctrination, have a rum and coke  
while facing east, pledge allegiance to the .................oh well, you get  
the idea.

Rummy

In a message dated 9/8/2010 5:48:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ccowie at cowieassociates.com writes:

I  went sailing this past Monday from Herrington Harbor to Thomas Point  
light
and back.  The wind was blowing pretty steady and over 10 kts  the entire
time.  At about 10 kts I found I could reasonably manage a  full main with
the boom down and the 175 Genoa out about 1/3 of the  way.  Between a close
haul and broad reach I was easily running over 5  kts pushing the gps beyond
6 as I raced down the following sea.  My  sail back from Thomas Point Light
required tacking several times on as  close haul as I could get.  At this
point the wind was kicking up to  at least 15 kts gust closer to 20.  This
much wind out of the South  and an outgoing tide made for some pretty
significant sea action.  I  found the best I could sail with that much wind
was about 130-140  degrees.  I did position the jib sheets betwen the outer
and inner  shrouds back to the winch and cleat and this helped some.  At a
130  degree tack I was able to manage between 2.8 and 3.5 kts pounding into
the  building seas.  I began to fall off the wind as I made my approach  to
Herring Bay and the shallows of Long Bar aggrivated the seas even  more.  A
couple of waves came crashing over the cockpit as I  experimented trying to
head up, broadside or run with the increasingly  angry sea.  I am curious to
hear how others have managed trying to  sail close hauled, broad reach and
run in winds between 15-20kts and with  an angry breaking sea in the 3-4 
foot
range.  I think I could manage  to handle a little more wind than this but
not in an aggitated sea  state.

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