RE: Monterey vs. SF bays

Eric Johnson (ej@blarg.net)
Thu, 13 May 1999 14:52:47 -0700


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> JBlumhorst@aol.com wrote:
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> > Nearly all the SF Bay P19 skippers have a second reef that
> reduces mainsail
> > area to 50% and we all use the "handkerchief" storm jib of 30
> square feet in
> > the summer.
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> Talk about contrasts! In San Diego, typically, year round, you see full
> main and at least a 150% genoa, on every sailboat (except mine), pretty
> much every time you sail.

Ditto for Seattle in the summer. In the spring and fall, you get to whip out
the handkerchiefs sometimes though...