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Why does a youth team like a 505? In our case 8535 Rondar boat?
1. It goes like a rocket (PY 906).
2. On our lake you can beat well-sailed RS400s (PY 936).
3. A 3-sail reach is awesome above 15kt.
4. A 505 looks like a grown-up 420, it feels like a grown-up 420, it IS a grown-up 420.
5. You can actually tune the boat on the water.
6. No more sticking spinnaker poles to the tank and thwart with Velcro.
7. When your 420 helm suddenly grows 1 ft and adds 3 stone, what else can you do?
8. 505s are very comfortable at sea, and seaworthy.
9. 505s can be hauled up a ramp by a tired crew, without injury.
10. People help you eg. at Hayling Island SC, Bill Masterman, David Smithwhite, Mark U-B, Paul Young, with advice and tuning runs.
11. Assuming you have done a bit of race coaching, you can feel good in 505 right away, on day 1, 5 miles offshore.
12. Assuming the race coaching bit, contrary to certain popular opinion in the bar, you CAN wire-to-wire tack a 505 and enjoy it!
13. 505s are hard to capsize, but it can be done whilst reaching in a gust with the crew flat wiring, steering, and holding the spinnaker sheet, with the helm lying on the foredeck getting the rest of the ropes out from under the boat.
14. 505s last a long time.
There you have it: there may be more, better, seasoned comment later.
-- David Cram, Recently bought a used 505 for his boys |
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Region II: Falsone Crew Clinic Notes
Posted by: Jesse Falsone on Thursday, October 12, 2006 - 12:31 PM
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Falsone’s Crew Clinic Notes, 10/12/06
Sponsored by the Int. 505 Crew’s Union (not associated with AFL-CIO)
All offenses made in this text are intentional. People with PC-sensibilities need not read this. You have been warned.
Preface – For some time, I had planned on updating my “High-Performance Dinghy Crew Clinic Notes”, but just didn’t feel like it. Besides, I’ve been busting my ass trying to get better, so why should I just spew out everything I’ve learned to you people? Just kidding, maybe. The time has come for you guys to make some real gains in your level of sailing because it’s no fun competing against y’all unless you start getting better. It’s gotten so bad that against my better judgment, I have even taken the helm a little in club races! Nobody wants this. So, I have put together a primer on some boat-handling and tuning points that will help crews improve. Years ago I called for the “skilled” drivers among us to come up with a companion manual to my clinic notes, but we all know how that has gone (see Crew’s Union Rule #3 below). So, here are some additional notes on what I think is important for crews to know on the 505. You might want to reference my earlier text on the subject, and my many articles in Tank Talk, as well as the many fine crewing materials available in other publications and at booksellers.
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