Yeah, there we are. Hey, now Sailing Anarchy podcast. That's what you're hearing. I guess you knew that since you clicked on whatever button you clicked on to get to me. Quickly, quickly, unclick. I'm using a new platform here and I've no idea if it's gonna work, but let's, um, let's hope for the best, right? I mean, yeah. Come on now. Here we go. Ah, where do I start today? I, I, I've got a number of things I want to get to, but, but invariably it gets, it gets back to me every single time. I, um. I'm super frustrated with my Hoy 33. Um, not, not the boat so much, although the boat is a weird duck fucking thing doesn't go up. I mean, it goes through the water upwind really well. I've probably said that five times already. It doesn't point worth a goddamn, I mean, it's kind of embarrassing how poorly the thing points. And if you try to pinch, oh, it just stops it, you know? And I pinch sometimes, but when I get a lane, you know, when I try to start to lure it as often as I can and let the boat run. I think last Wednesday night's race, and that, by the way, that's all we've done with this boat is beer can races and we've gotten the shit kicked out of us. Every single time we've gone from, well, it should have been a second in the first race and a third in the second, and we've been like 4, 4, 5, 6. It's just disastrous and partly because it's super fluky and you know, I'm not having any luck whatsoever. Just none. Like, God damnit, we can't do a thing right. Which is really infuriating. Um, um, but. The, and the boat downwind is nothing special in light air. It doesn't have enough horsepower, you know, and I'm running a stock configuration, you know, as I've said before. Um, and I, I, you know, I wanted to just start from ground zero, as it were. Excuse me. You know, I had a heavily moed Hobie 33 mm-hmm. Couple years ago, three years ago. Yeah, the o uh, former Captain Sluggo, then Anarchy six. Now I think it's Captain Sluggo again. Uh, on paper it looked pretty good. Reality said something different. I didn't like that boat much. I like to downwind in a breeze. But then again, any Hoey 33 downwind in a breeze you like, you love, you would wish to be on a Hoey 33 downwind in breeze and some waves. I mean, it's just an ideal boat for that. And this modified one was good, but. Terrible around the buoys and just awful and disappointing. So I sold it. Um, I wouldn't say I'm near selling the 33, but I am growing wildly frustrated racing this boat in ORC. I suppose a little bit of research would've told me that ORC does not. In fact, it hates really light boats and it pounds the HOEY 33. I mean, unmercifully, it is such an unfair rating. It's worse than PHRF because at least in PHRF you could have your rating adjusted. ORC. Sure you wanna fix your rating, hire a designer, and then you can go through all the various ways to, you know, trick the rule, beat the rule, make the boat faster, make the boat slower, whatever it, whatever it is, right? Like I talked to a guy who has OB 33. I. It has 220 pounds of lead in the bilge down low that was added when the boat wanted to do a transpac they needed for stability to pass the stability test for Transpac. Well, it turns out that this boat with a 5% larger spinnaker than stock and 220 pounds in the bilge gets a fair bit of time from a stock 33. If you can imagine that, um, you know, the lead helps the boat be a little stiffer up wind, which the boat. Really needs. Um, and it can't help but downwind in light air. I mean, it can't be, it can't do much for the boat at all, but the bigger spinnaker does. So I'm contemplating, you know, maybe making some mods to the boat. First and foremost, I'm thinking about, um, adding a SPR to the front of the boat. Troger makes a really nice one. It's about, I think, 33 inches. So let's call it three feet. It's a carbon fiber, like triangular spr that you can e either have in place sort of permanently, or you can make it so that you can fold it up in case you, you're worried about being too big for your slip, whatever the trailering, the boat, whatever the hell it might be. Um, and then adding a masthead asymmetrical to the boat. I'm talking a big giant. Runner kind of thing. Not quite a runner. Nobody able to really run assos, do they? I guess they kind of do sometimes, but you know, we need the boat to be able to reach a little bit. With asymmetrical, you typically do reach a little bit and so I, I wanted to go masthead and a big asso, you know, on a three foot sprint in front of the boat. It'd make a difference. It'd be a big spinnaker and the boat I think would really come alive, downwind in the, in the typical four to eight knot shit that we get in San Diego, you know, so I'm considering that. But one of the reasons why I'm doing it is because I want to get out of ORC. I would like to get into ORC Sport boat and, uh, that leads me to the next quandary in front of me. So there is, there is indeed an ORC Sport Boat Class International. Right. And it's great that they created it. It, it's fantastic. Um, very few rules by the way. It's kind of surprising. Um, the only rules are sort of a, a maximum, uh, length. Um, also a, um, you know, display segment length ratio, uh, spinnaker sizes. You know, they can use asymmetric or symmetric. Um, no, no. Uh, talk about. Head sales size, any of that kind of stuff. But then there's a class here in San Diego that on paper would seem to make perfect sense. I think they call it the Fast 30 class, you know? And they've got, and they're, it's based on ORC as well. Sorry, you're the paper shuffling. I'm so goddamn old school. I don't know why I can't just look off the screen and read it. I just. It just goes back to my radio days, you know, when you had to print everything out. And so anyway, here I am printing and making noise. So they've got, you know, two divisions that almost make zero sense. But what they've done, there's a division a length overall, less than 10 meters. Okay? The maximum length in ORC. International sport boat is 9.15 meters. So every single boat that's in the sport boat class in San Diego using this FAST 30 rule would not qualify for ORC International because they're all too long flying tigers, Mel 30 twos, uh, and they're all too heavy for the sport boat definition, so none of them would qualify. Okay, so then you might go, well, listen, why don't we make a rule? Why don't we see if we can do a modification where the boats are a little longer? Right? So they said, uh, overall length, less than 10 meters. This is Division A, and these discrepancies make zero sense. They're Division A and division B. Division a length are all less than 10 meters. I said that displacement in measurement trim less than 2300 kilograms. So what's that? 4,600 pounds? 4,300 pounds? I don't know. Displacement length ratio. Okay, got that. Maximum J gib size, sorry. Maximum jib size, 105% non-overlapping, asymmetrical spinner, spinnaker on center line. Now that's class A. Here's what makes no sense. Class B length. Overall less than 11 meters. Uh, displacement in measurement, trim less than 3000 kilograms, kilos, kilograms, um, and maximum jib size 150%. And it says symmetric or asymmetric spinnaker for class B. Well, it looks like every single boat in their fleet here in San Diego is in the A class. Um, it's a Rocket 22. It's a Viper eight 30 flying tiger. Mels 32, flying tiger, far East, 23 SA seven 50, Mels 24 B 25. Far 30 mils, 24, so none of those boats are in the so-called Class B. Well, so I approached this fast, super 30 class, whatever the hell they are. This bastardization of the ORC Sport boat rule, which makes sense to a point and then subtly doesn't in terms of, well, they don't, they don't want to and they're not going to let my Hobie 33 sail. And so, because it turns out that no other boats apparently have bothered to want to be in Division Bs, where you can be a little bit longer, you can have 150% jib. And by the way, just the fact that they limit it to 150% is just a bullshit number. And you, the number is, is pulled out, uh, of thin air for one single reason, as far as I can tell. And that is tough. Screw over everybody who's got 155% jib. Because most boats in San Diego that have overlapping Genos, they use 155% Genoa. Why? Because that's what PHRF allows as a maximum size without incurring any sort of penalty. So these guys in their genius said, no, let's make it 150%. So that basically if you have a 1 55, they can tell you you can't race. I mean, that's really the only reason the, the guy that runs this thing, I'm not naming any names, but boy, what an ass hat. I mean, this is like PHRF. Only worse, I. You, you give somebody a little fiefdom, right? A little slice of, ooh, I can create this fleet and I'm gonna create my own rules. And doesn't make, if they don't, doesn't matter if they make any sense. Doesn't matter if they're irrational, doesn't matter if it disqualify certain boats. This is the way it is. Isn't that just great? And that's the way it is. So I would literally have to cut 5% off my Genoa, uh, LP size from 155 to 150%. Okay? That snuck into any wonders to the shape. It's gonna cost me extra money that is, is unnecessary. Why not just make it 155% as the maximum so that any boat that might want to do this. It's going to be legal with their 155% Genova and they give you the option of a symmetrical spinnaker or an asymmetrical spinnaker. Well, so my thinking is this, that I, I guess how it would go in Division B, although Division B is the larger class, wouldn't it be Division A as it's 11 meters and Division A is 10 meters. It doesn't make sense. Almost nothing about this makes sense.'cause this is, again, created outta somebody's mind of how they, how it should be. And this isn't how it should be. And they definitely d do not want me in there. You don't have an asymmetrical. I know. I have a symmetrical. Well, there's no, there's, I, I can go in the other class. There's no boats that race in the other class I. Well, why is that? It's because you discourage people to race by telling'em they can only have 150% genman, not they're 1 55, that they're carrying all the god damn time. And that's part, that's part of it. The other thing is there's zero promotion for this thing. I mean, nobody understands exactly why it is the way it is. So I wanna get out of ORC because I'm stuck with a bunch of heavier boats that we owe ridiculous time to, that we cannot beat virtually ever. I mean, maybe we should have had one win in this series, maybe. But like I said, I've had worse luck ever in the beer can series. I mean. I mean, it's just, it's horrifying. But I will tell you last week we had our first spinnaker leg was pretty reachy and I have a, a relatively new, uh, Mels 24 reaching kite that fits the Hoey 33 parameters really closely. So we put this thing up on the reaching leg and I'll be god damn, the boat went really well. I mean like I was shocked how well it was going. I mean, clearly we're under cellular with this thing. I mean, first of all, it's a reaching kite. Secondarily, you know, Mel is 24, so it's not, not made for this boat, but the sizes are close. And boy, we were quick. So it got me thinking, why don't I put the sprint on the boat, it's three feet. Um, and. Make a masthead asymmetrical to, to fit those dimensions, right? Three feet on the j, you know, plus whatever the distance is from the regular spinnaker, uh, haard to the masthead, spinnaker haard. That, that would be a big ass asso and it'd be a super light, uh, you know, light air sail. I mean, I've already got, I've got the flatter reaching spinner curve if it's blowing on a reaching leg, and I've got the 1.5 symmetrical that I can use. Uh, for when it's maybe super windy, downwind, let's say, which it never is in San Diego. It's never super windy downwind in San Diego. It just, it's so rare. And so the likelihood that I, I would really need that most of the time is unlikely, uh, when I add an ASO to the boat, if I add a O to the boat. So, so now it's, you know, it's my struggle all over again because then I'd have to spend X amount of money. I mean, I, you know. Carbon sprint is what it is. Um, but the installation is not necessarily that easy and it's, I know it's gonna be spendy to put it on the boat. Right? And then of course I have to get, you know, a new asymmetrical. Spinnaker a big one. Those aren't cheap. I mean, they're just not cheap. So, you know, what am I looking at? I'm probably looking at six grand. To do this, to get myself out of ORC regular, which we don't belong there. And the fact that ORC is just this way, it screws some boats and it loves other boats. And I suppose rules have been like that throughout history. But man, this is so blatantly unfair. I, listen, I've been around the block, I know what I'm doing. I mean, I'm not as good as I was, but I certainly know, you know, shit from Shinola and ORC is shit. When it comes to, to light displacement boats, so the guy that has this super 30 class or whatever, it's fast, 30, whatever the. Fuck these guys fast. 30 actively discouraging me from, you can't, you can't race, you don't qualify. And so then I'm like, well, put me in B. Well, there aren't any boats racing in B. Okay, maybe you should send out, send out a mass email. I don't know. Why don't you ask me to promote it? How about that? No. Instead, this guy had a attitude. I mean, it was literally like talking to one of the Asshat, PHRF, handicappers, sort of the same thing, just this mindset. I'm the king of this little fiefdom and I'm gonna do what I want and screw you. I'm self interested. I don't like you. I don't like your boat, so I'll do everything I can to make sure that you're not competitive. PHRF does that by screwing people over with ratings. ORC does it by inherently. Uh, proportionally being heavily biased against light displacement votes, and I'm no ORC expert. I don't know shit. I mean, I had Greg Stewart from Nelson's office, you know, run some numbers for me. I don't know what they mean. I mean, I haven't done the work. I don't, the handicaps are. Ridiculous. I mean, it, they're for a, for a dummy who hasn't sailed a rule boat since morsey and IOR and IMS days, you know, I am out of the loop and it, it looks daunting to try to figure it out. And one of the things I like about PHRF is, well, you don't have to figure it out. I mean, you do, but it's really easy. It's like, okay, let's see. We owe those guys six sec, six seconds a mile, a 10 mile race. Ha, guess what? 60 seconds. That's what we want. We on one minute. So at any time during the race, you have a really good idea how you're doing In ORC, you have no idea unless you do tons of charts and graphs. Okay? We're band level, band one, and so our ratings this and this breeze. But geez, did they pick the right rating band? And I mean a wind band and the right wind strength, who knows? I mean that is left up to the arbitrariness of, of a particular race committee, you know, so. There's just so many inherent flaws. So my question is this, I guess I'm asking you and you can certainly email me. It's scott@sailinganarchy.com. Um, I'd definitely like to hear if anybody has something to say. So, here are my que, here are my, my options. Keep sailing. ORC regular, eh, that is not an option. I won't do it. I'm done. I won't sail another ORC regular race if I can ever help it. Honest to God. Uh, number two. Um, do the, do the mods, spend the money. I mean, it'll be a lot more fun. Boat to sail downwind with, uh, with a nice sci, decent sized sprint, and a huge ao. It'll be a lot more fun. Jiving is easier, you know, the boat's just gonna go better with this sail. It's gonna be a lot faster. Um, or sail. PHRF Cruising spinnaker, that's, that's what's left of PHRF here. Now. There's no longer any regular PHRF here. Um, if there's PHF cruising, Spinnaker. Okay. Is that what it's gonna come to? Like seriously? Is that where I'm gonna hand up? I can tell you one thing I might. Um. But then again, I might not race anymore at all. I'm having a hell of a time getting crew. Um, you know, my, all my posses sort of dispersed, they're off on other boats and yeah, I got a couple guys who will sail with me and I love it. But I've been putting newbies on the boat. Shit. Just last night I had this chick who I guess I misunderstood, misled me that she knew how to race. So I was short a trimer. I said, you think you can trim? Yeah. No, she can't. No, she couldn't trim at all. She had no idea really what she was doing. I tried to work with her, put it in there. I had, you know, a guy coaching her a little bit disastrous. So she sends me an, uh, a message. I, I wanted to notify you. I'm no longer sailing on your boat. I've moved over to expo with X skipper. Okay? So I'm thinking to myself, you're lucky to be even beyond my boat. It's pathetic that I'm in the state, that I don't have such a good crew that you're even on my boat when you wouldn't normally ever get near it and you're jumping ship for a hack boat with a bunch of yahoos that sail on it. I mean, listen, it's where she belongs. Don't get me wrong. It's absolutely where she belongs. But so, you know, I mean, that's the state I'm in. There's a decent chance we're not even gonna race tomorrow, uh, tomorrow night if I don't get one other good person. We're not gonna be able to race. And right now I'm just, you know, striking out. So, so I've, I've, you know, I haven't, I wouldn't say I've reached my nay dear, but I'm certainly frustrated. Um, do I spend the money, try to get A-A-O-R-C super fast 30 fleet going class B and get some of their votes out there and still have a shitty crew. Um, do I not do it? And just go ahead and. Sail sport boat B and cut my genoa down 5%. You gotta be kidding. I'm, I'm really, I am pissed. I'm pissed that the state of the sport is this. When I bought the boat. There was no shift to ORC. Not, not across the board. There was like, uh, sport boats were ORC, I mean, the modified, the butchered ORC, by the way, I wonder if ORC approves of what they've done to the ORC rule. I mean, it's like, wait a minute, how can you change these? We have an ORC Sport boat rule. I mean, I guess it's like, Hey, the more ORC, the better. I mean it is ORC, Uber and. Everybody's on the bandwagon, but I can tell you for a fact, I would guess way more than half of the people have no idea how to calculate how they're doing in a race. They have no idea which rating applies to whatever win band and and course designation or very little idea. I. And the rest sort of do, but it's, it's, it's ridiculous. It's not that great. Certainly not having a Hobie 33, it's not great. The rule is not great, um, for me and for my boat. And so I thought, well, maybe I'll do something else, but so that's what, so, or I just go fuck it and just, you know, put lazy jacks on the boat. And, um, I don't know, maybe put the a hundred percent on a furler and just go day sailing with chicks. I mean, assuming, you know, I could ever get a chick again. Oh God, that's a whole nother story. I need to start, uh, anarchy dating the, the trials and tribulations of a. Of a sailor who no longer has girls that want to go sailing with them. I mean, have one girl left. I mean, I've had two girls bail on me in two weeks. One because she doesn't know what the hell she's doing the other be when feelings get in the way, that's usually problematic. Um, I've got a, uh, a, a girl, a bow girl. She's doing just fine, happy as hell, but, and I've got a great mans sail. Trior. A tactician, and I have a decent trimmer. But you know, now I don't have a pit person. Now I don't have somebody who can squirrel. I mean, it's like, it's just such a struggle. I know a lot of you run into it, but I did not anticipate it being this difficult with this boat. I didn't. And, uh, it's partly my own fault because I, I haven't built enough of a crew reservoir. I mean, I thought I did. But the amount of people who have left and don't come back and don't want to come back and, uh, oh, I'm doing something else. You know, it's just maddening. And, you know, I, I think I'll try to get the cruise situation sorted out before I decide to invest in a sprint and all that work, and then a kite, you know, and all that money. Um, I need to solidify the crew a little bit. So if anybody in San Diego wants to come racing with me, scott@sailinganarchy.com. Slash loser slash washed up slash hack slash Nobody wants a sale for me.com. Um, I laugh at it because it is absurd. It's also frustrating. Um, I'm not gonna lie, and the results just haven't been there the way I was hoping I. They should be considerably better, but under no circumstances. There's a Benito 36.7 in our class that's really well sailed that somehow manages to be get off. The start line terribly is usually so far buried on the first beat that you don't think of them, but then they come roaring back at the end of the second beat. They go by us and we can't ever catch'em again. Even downwind with their little weird spinnaker. We can't catch'em. We're no faster than them. It's just, it's a fact. Take your Hoey 33 and go against a good boat like that downwind in light air and tell me that you're going by'em.'cause you're not. Now would, if I had the As OI would, but I don't wanna be in ORC regular against boats like that. I wouldn't add, I wouldn't have a higher rating, uh, than the one I already have. Just'cause I have a big spinnaker. You know? It's just, I don't know. I'm frustrated. I hate it. I quit. Uh, I and when I do, when I do quit. I'll let you know. I mean, I'll, I'm gonna be very vocal about it. Like, fuck this. Seriously. You know, and I, I, uh, I've told before I wrap up here, I gotta go pretty quick. Um, I, I, I said, listen, I, I told the people that are running, you know, that are adamant about ORC, like, this is the way it is. Okay? I said, I, I, why don't you do a poll? Once you see how many people are satisfied with ORC, how many people think this is better than PHRF? I can tell you for a fact, it is not better than PHRF. In, I'm not seeing it. I see boats that, that win that never used to win. I see boats that are up in the top three that almost were never in the top three, and there's only one re one reason their boats rate well under ORC. Meanwhile, a God like me is, you know, back in the fleet. I mean, it certainly couldn't be me, but I'll tell you who feels worse than me. Um, Dennis Connor feels worse than me and here's why. So he's, he's got this six meter, you know, this pretty bitching, pretty radical six meter that he's going to, I think, ship back to New York this summer, later summer, and. Race in the, uh, six meter worlds and it's, it's a bitching looking thing. Um, it's significantly shorter than the regular boats. Regular six, I dunno if there's such a thing as a regular six meter, but the current breed of fast six meters, it's way shorter. I think it's got a, a shit ton of sail area and I think it's light. Um, but he's out there and he missed a couple races, but he's been out there the last two or three and. My God, the thing is so frigging off the pace and I know why he's catching kelp like nobody's business. I'm sure they don't have a kelp cutter. I'm sure it's almost impossible. I bet you have to back down to get the kelp off that keel. It's one of those radical keels that you know. That you're not gonna get kelp off of it. And so they get, they catch kelp and they're just like so far back and we've had our own kelp issues. So is everybody else. I'm not blaming that on anything, uh, on anybody. It's just a fact of nature. When you sail in San Diego and the winds out of the south, which it's been, it brings the kelp in all the way through the bay. Almost as far as the South Bay, and it's really frigging awful to sail with. The Hobie 33 catches it both keel and rudder. Doesn't catch all the time. It does have sweep to both, but it does. And the boat's weird. It doesn't really feel like there's kelp on the boat. Most boats, oh my God. As soon as it starts fluttering you, I'm screaming kelp. You know, kelp. And normally every boat I've had. That that catches kelp always has a kelp cutter. Well, this boat doesn't. We have a nice flossing line, which Scotty Dalen at SD 1D rigging made for us and it's fabulous. You just really give it one toss across the front of the bow and it does it, it gets the kelp you first or second time, every time. And it's not that burdensome or cumbersome to do. It's mandatory and I just, I don't call for it enough'cause I don't feel it enough on. On the, you know, via the tiller or just the boat in general. But I have to say, every time I think we're going slow, I'm just gonna have to start calling. Let's loss, let's loss. I mean, you know, just remove all doubt. So, yeah, so that's my hell. Um. And, uh, I, I suspect that this is like 30 minutes of whining, but it, it, it really okay. It is, but, but there's logic behind my whining. I mean, I, I've, I've got, that's my dog in the background. Sorry, I, I've got justification for what I'm saying here. Um. I know I'm right about every single thing I've talked about. Will there be any change to anything? No. No. I can tell Nobody wants to change anything here and, uh, and I'm not asking for the world. 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