U20 Class Member's Forum
General Category => U20 General Discussion => Topic started by: Don Corey on March 01, 2019, 07:18:28 PM
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Sorry, have not been on the FORUM for quite a while. I've been running code '0's on the U20 for years in handicap racing with a lot of success. They add a new dimension to sailing this awesome boat, if nothing else just more fun. Sailing four legs of a twice around W/L (skewed) course with the spinnaker flying can be a lot of fun and certainly turns some heads.
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Do you have any pictures of the boat flying the sail?
Thanks
Mark
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Don, I would also appreciate a picture or two of you flying your code 0 or other nonstandard headsails if you have any to post.
Thanks for your call yesterday. It sounds like this will be a good sail for me to add to my inventory. I have ordered a code 0 from Tac Boston. I also just purchased a Ronstan 80 top down furler which I will be trying out this spring with both the code 0 and the class asymmetrical spinnaker. If anyone is interested, I will try to post some pictures.
Allen
Bomazeen #7
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I know this is an old thread, but did you ever post pictures?
Mike
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Sorry, I don't have photos. I have a code zero that Ullman cut down from a M24(?). It helped when conditions were right, but less than I thought it would. I then bought a free luff 155% Jib Top, tacked at the bow and raised with a 2nd spinnaker halyard. It is sheeted at the spinnaker sheet blocks. That is a great sail. and much more useful, especially if single handed.
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I found some pictures of my code 0.
Tac Boston made my code 0 for the 2019 season.
I put it on a top down furler. Attached are two pictures .they are not the greatest. I was hoping to get some better ones this year, but with travel restrictions I did not get my boat in the water this summer.
I tried to post this earlier, but I think the pictures were too big.
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Thanks for the pics Allen. What top-down furler are you using?
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I am using a Ronstan series 80 top down furler. I purchased it with two torsion cables. The intent is to have one cable in the code 0 and a second one for my spinnaker.
I do not remember what I paid, but when I purchased it early last year, Upffront in Germany had the best price. It worked out really well.
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OHHHH me likey! :) Maybe a bit more Vang on the main :)
I found some pictures of my code 0.
Tac Boston made my code 0 for the 2019 season.
I put it on a top down furler. Attached are two pictures .they are not the greatest. I was hoping to get some better ones this year, but with travel restrictions I did not get my boat in the water this summer.
I tried to post this earlier, but I think the pictures were too big.
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Yes. Does anyone have a good way to control the vang from the rear of the cockpit?
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Yes. Does anyone have a good way to control the vang from the rear of the cockpit?
We just have a really long tail on ours so that it makes it all the back to the back corner so it can be eased when it is nuking downwind.
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Thanks, Tac. I will try that.
What about the jib sheet cars. I have been reluctant to add blocks fore and aft of the tracks. Currently I have them set up so that the car with the block has its pin raised so it does not lock into a hole. Instead, I have a line reaching from it back on the track to a second car that I can reach from the cockpit and lock in place with a snap pin. This allows me limited adjustment of about the first three holes from the front of the track. I can pull it back or slack the line on the lazy side.