Comments on: THE MEXICAN — KIWI STYLE https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/05/08/2020-5-8-the-mexican-kiwi-style/ Sail with Confidence! Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: manfred.schreiber@mac.com https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/05/08/2020-5-8-the-mexican-kiwi-style/#comment-112 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:37:26 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=152#comment-112 Yes, I learned the Kiwi drop on my asymmetrical Bull 7000 from Greg Young, but sometimes the sheet would not come around the headstay smoothly until Keith Musto invented the Musto strop. Probably on the Melges 24 and it must have been him, why else is it called in my sailing world the „Musto strop“. It is a thin high load rope which is spliced or used with a thin knot into the clew. Thus it slips around the headstay without holding friction and coming the thicker sheet (knot) the wind in the sail blows it back to execute a perfect Kiwi.

]]> By: manfred.schreiber@mac.com https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/05/08/2020-5-8-the-mexican-kiwi-style/#comment-324 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 07:37:26 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=152#comment-324 Yes, I learned the Kiwi drop on my asymmetrical Bull 7000 from Greg Young, but sometimes the sheet would not come around the headstay smoothly until Keith Musto invented the Musto strop. Probably on the Melges 24 and it must have been him, why else is it called in my sailing world the „Musto strop“. It is a thin high load rope which is spliced or used with a thin knot into the clew. Thus it slips around the headstay without holding friction and coming the thicker sheet (knot) the wind in the sail blows it back to execute a perfect Kiwi.

]]> By: newbury@mandamus.org https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/05/08/2020-5-8-the-mexican-kiwi-style/#comment-111 Sat, 09 May 2020 19:32:23 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=152#comment-111 Arrgh, came out on port!

My lysdexia is getting the better of me today!

]]> By: newbury@mandamus.org https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/05/08/2020-5-8-the-mexican-kiwi-style/#comment-323 Sat, 09 May 2020 19:32:23 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=152#comment-323 Arrgh, came out on port!

My lysdexia is getting the better of me today!

]]> By: newbury@mandamus.org https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/05/08/2020-5-8-the-mexican-kiwi-style/#comment-110 Sat, 09 May 2020 19:29:45 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=152#comment-110 I once saw a ‘not-a-Kiwi’ takedown, but one invented in an instant of necessity and inspiration: a tack windard takedown.
The last race of the Etchells Worlds, 1986 was sailed in a light northerly, but as the leaders approached the leeward mark, way out in Lake Ontario, the southerly system breeze pushed in. There was a dead zone about 200 yards from the mark, with a light northerly, north of it, and a light southerly around the mark. The first six or so boats were well gapped away from the rest of the fleet and were the first to douse their spinnakers and beat the last stretch to the mark and round almost nose to tail.
Everyone then, in order, re-set their spinnakers on starboard and headed north. Bruce Burton, with Glenn Burton and Chris Lucander were about fifth in this group. The lead boats were successively headed to the west as they coasted into the dead zone. There were boats, each flying spinnakers, headed in reciprocal directions, within 30 yards of each other!
As Burton reached the edge of the northerly with the pole almost on the forestay, he TACKED, let the guy run, and came out on starboard, on the breeze.
Just like a good ‘Kiwi’, the chute slid down the now windward face of the jib and was recovered almost instantly by Glenn and Chris. They had not dropped the jib, so I suspect that the only to-be-trimmed items were the backstay, main and jib sheets.
This put Burton on the major tack with an instant 8 or 9 boat-length lead (ahead and to leeward) of the others . They went on to win the race, and clinched their second World Championship.
As those circumstances are sorta kinda rare, I don’t think it has, or will happen too often. And since it was an Etchells, the spin pole was not a problem. It was a neat and surprising thing to see, which is why I remember it.

]]> By: newbury@mandamus.org https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/05/08/2020-5-8-the-mexican-kiwi-style/#comment-322 Sat, 09 May 2020 19:29:45 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=152#comment-322 I once saw a ‘not-a-Kiwi’ takedown, but one invented in an instant of necessity and inspiration: a tack windard takedown.
The last race of the Etchells Worlds, 1986 was sailed in a light northerly, but as the leaders approached the leeward mark, way out in Lake Ontario, the southerly system breeze pushed in. There was a dead zone about 200 yards from the mark, with a light northerly, north of it, and a light southerly around the mark. The first six or so boats were well gapped away from the rest of the fleet and were the first to douse their spinnakers and beat the last stretch to the mark and round almost nose to tail.
Everyone then, in order, re-set their spinnakers on starboard and headed north. Bruce Burton, with Glenn Burton and Chris Lucander were about fifth in this group. The lead boats were successively headed to the west as they coasted into the dead zone. There were boats, each flying spinnakers, headed in reciprocal directions, within 30 yards of each other!
As Burton reached the edge of the northerly with the pole almost on the forestay, he TACKED, let the guy run, and came out on starboard, on the breeze.
Just like a good ‘Kiwi’, the chute slid down the now windward face of the jib and was recovered almost instantly by Glenn and Chris. They had not dropped the jib, so I suspect that the only to-be-trimmed items were the backstay, main and jib sheets.
This put Burton on the major tack with an instant 8 or 9 boat-length lead (ahead and to leeward) of the others . They went on to win the race, and clinched their second World Championship.
As those circumstances are sorta kinda rare, I don’t think it has, or will happen too often. And since it was an Etchells, the spin pole was not a problem. It was a neat and surprising thing to see, which is why I remember it.

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