{"id":4664,"date":"2025-07-14T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:22:14","slug":"how-is-that-180-genoa-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/?p=4664","title":{"rendered":"How is that 180% genoa going?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We have used the converted code zero from Passion X as a 180% genoa on Passion XI for four races. All four races have been in very light conditions which suits the large sail area.

Before converting the free flying sail to a hanked on genoa I ran velocity prediction programs on the ORC website and those predicted a 0.3 knot speed gain to windward.

In practice I feel we have gained all that speed in a straight line but offset by agonising long tacks. Admittedly we have been very lightly crewed on three of those four races so the slow tacking is also due to not enough grunt on the sheets.

With the experience of each race I have adjusted the tack and sheet angles so that now the upper leach touches the V2 at the same time as the foot touches the V1s and that has improved the tacking angles.

In my opinion the hanked on sail allows the yacht to point almost as high as the non overlapping jib and certainly much higher than a Code Zero on a furler.

On Passion XI we have a genoa take off 2.4 metres higher than on Passion X so if we made a new sail to fit the new geometry we would gain around 8m2 more sail area and the leach up high would cross the D3 and allow slightly tighter sheeting at the upper leach but the improvement would be marginal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A little bit of the 180% Genoa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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We have used the converted code zero from Passion X as a 180% genoa on Passion XI for four races. All four races have been in very light conditions which suits the large sail area. Before converting the free flying sail to a hanked on genoa I ran velocity prediction programs on the ORC website […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gwiz.au\/passion_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}