Hi all, my wife and I are slowly looking for a 365 ketch in our area, but in the mean time have the following question for you P365 owners.
What wind speed does it take to get a P365 ketch moving? Close hauled, down wind, with or without a spinnaker/asym... I've read that the P365 is underpowered, but I'd rather hear from real world owners when they have to fire up the engine.
On the other end of the spectrum, when do you start reefing and until what is the max wind you can comfortably sail at?
Thanks :)
If I have to make some miles, prefer the iron wind below 10 kts.
Seems like I'm often thinking "wish I'd taken a reef" above 25 kts.
Like Skooster, we were reaching for the engine key under 10 knots (when we had the fuel to do so!). We had no light air sails to speak of.
Unlike Skooster, we tended to reef at 20. Then again, after 18k miles cruising our 365, we just didn't want to "rock our house" and were fine with doing 5 knots during our travels.
10-4 on 20! "Wished I had reefed" much above that!
10 knots isn't too bad. Thanks for the input ;)
Our boat is a ketch that came from the factory with the inner self tailing stay sail. We carry a high cut clew 130 up front on the head stay furler. With both head sails up I tend to roll the 130 once it is over 15 knots. At twenty knots I am looking for a slab out of the main and at 25 thinking stay sail and mizzen or ditch the mizzen and go with the stay sail and two slabs out of the main.
In ten knots the boat still moves respectively unless you are in big slop trying to go to hard to windward. If you bow down a bit, the boat keeps on sailing. In any reasonable air the boat is a freight train on a reach. For what is worth the boat rates in the low 200's as a PHRF rating depending where you race.
Dale
" the boat is a freight train on a reach"
That's for sure. ANY wind on the beam and we could easily sail the boat. DEFINITELY our favorite point of sail.
We needed good wind behind the boat if we wanted to downwind, Wind in front of the beam was just a chore to be endured.
One thing I have never seen on this forum is how close people could sail on the wind. Journey could sail at 55 degrees if sailing by hand and 65 degrees if sailing by autopilot. Pretty poor numbers and due, I am sure, to the old sails we were flying.
One thing to add here is that we went halfway around the world and NEVER went over 10 degrees of heel. If it went more than that we reefed. Comfort over speed.