The J/109 Class Association Forum

Sail California strongly recommended taking all the load off the clutch with the winch before opening the jib and main halyards. Especially when boned-on.

And so I always do. Been on the same halyards for 13 years -- and they're more worn on the shackle ends than at the cleat.

Yes, moving the sensor is the dream! Also the water catchment. And the keyed housing.

There's a guy in Richmond CA who does these sorts of reinforcement and glass jobs -- it's common enough to move the sensor. Besides the expense, there's some layup time and there always seems to be a calendar ...

I think I've had nearly all of these, plus:

The Beckson access plate above the rudder post will eventually leak. I've replaced the gasket once, and then a few years later, the whole plate as well.

90% of my water comes in from speedo insertions and a chronically leaking freshwater system. The rest ...

Here's what I've come up with. I'm hoping that others will post their calibrations, so we can compare notes. Very little J/109 on J/109 racing going on here in San Francisco, so no rivalries to protect!

I aim for boat speed to be correct within |0.1| knots at >= 3.0 knots boat speed. Transducer is ...

I'm still rocking what I think is the the original 1100 Rule pump. It runs a bit during the rainy season, and before and after each race speedo swapout. I've cleaned it out once, but otherwise it just works.

No backcheck as I've read they're a risk, so the back flow does indeed fill the bilge back ...

Photos of my inhauler setup.

The shock cord ends have gotten a bit ragged after a few years, but the cord doesn't last more than 3-4 years in the sun anyway. Next replacement cycle I will tie them with perfection loop or overhand loop knots (theoretically better than a bowline in shock cord) and ...

I have an adjustable whisker pole setup using a Forespar LC10-18UTR, initially for a 2012 Quantum #2 that wasn't cut for inhauling. Switching to a North 2021 #2 (higher wind version) cut for inhauling, the clew is, paradoxically, somewhat lower when set out on the whisker pole. So, the ring on the ...

Hi Dbrousseau,

Worse comes to worse, come and look at Lindo in Sausalito. I've had an inhauler, initially rigged by Easom, for about 5 years now, but I've changed it around some since I last took comprehensive legible photos of the setup. I have the high-wind #2 jib from North. It's not cut to ...

Hi Dan,

I've had 10mm Marlow D2 Classic spinnaker sheets for 5 years and they've worn well. Hardly any cover fraying. The classic neutral color sometimes looks a little dirty, and certainly doesn't have that grand-prix coloring. D2 race might look a little more modern. I didn't go higher tech as I ...

I looked today: I have the shock cord attached to the rod 32" above the deck, with an 18" length of cord between the rod and the ring.

Note that I have a North "high wind" #1 jib, whereas a lot of east coast boats have the lower wind version. The higher range #1 doesn't lend itself to as ...

Bill,

Thanks for all the detail and especially for digging up the photos!

Its great news that over all these years, you haven't seen stress or flex issues in just cutting the plywood rib.

FWIW: I think on my hull, the plywood rib is glassed into the under-berth bulkhead where you have the door ...

Hi,

I'm trying to race to polars, and I've reached the tack-to-tack and other limitations of my existing circa 2015 Triton B&G system. My electronics guy is recommending that I move the Airmar DST800 paddlewheel speed sensor to the centerline. (And also upgrade to some Zeus components, the ...

Hi Dan,

I've held my inhauler rings up with some thin shock cord tied around the outer-part of the ring with 3mm dyneema whipping, and then up to the innermost shroud just above a few wraps of riggers tape around the rod. Occasionally the ring gets pulled into the stainless handrail, but never hits ...

I haven't tried to singlehand any other ~35ft boats, but I've taken Lindo (#195) out on San Francisco Bay (and near-offshore in calmer days) singlehanded well over a hundred (150?) times over the last ten years. It's very doable, but a workout our usual summer breeze. You are almost always dumping ...

FWIW: I haven't seen anything in the SFYRA rating committee meeting minutes for the J/109. The main choice here seems to be genoa PRHR 69 vs jib-only PHRF 72.