The J/109 Class Association Forum

Hi,

Boy do I have experience with water sloshing around the hull! Every time I'd sail I'd take on water from some mysterious source, and because the bilge design on these boats (or at least on my boat, hull #47) is at best half thought out, it would never drain. Don't get me wrong -- I love my ...

Hi Dan,

Just one clarification -- ISAF separately defines heavy-weather and storm jibs.

For reference, the class jib's area is 30.7 sq. m. The ISAF specs would limit the heavy-weather jib to less than 27.1 sq. m., and the storm jib to 10 sq. m.

My Quantum heavy weather jib has the same foot ...

Hi Christopher,

I'm not saying I agree or I don't, but rather I just tried to summarize what I heard during the Annual Fleet Meeting. I imagine others who attended the call could have come away with differing impressions, since we all hear things filtered by our own experiences.

Here are some ...

Several suggestions were made during the Annual Fleet Meeting of Oct. 28, 2008 regarding the proposed rule modification to allow for jib & spinnaker changes between races of a given day.

I don't want to speak for all, but I think it is fair to say the intent of this modification is to enable good ...