Hello Henry,
Lake Erie PHRF has a pretty good fleet of
racing cats and tri's. We've raced on the same course with all the F's (24, 27, 28, 31) Conser Cat, Reynolds, Stelleto's, and some of the cruising cats like FP,
Manta, and PDQ's. We raced a Schock 35 for years on the west end of Lake Erie. We found that when things got ugly we had to land the
boat on the turn of it's
bilge or it shake your fillings out. Can't imagine landing on the bridgedeck in those condiitons.
Some of the well sailed multi's were pretty quick and tough to beat around the course. We found the cruising cats were generally slower and all of them sticky when the breeze was down. In a 15
knot breeze on point to point races the racier multi's were very very quick. The fastest was probably the Reynolds 33. The problem the Reynolds had was keeping on it's feet. They flipped it in the Islands and Lake Erie
Race.
Are you on
Lake Ontario or in
Ontario,
Canada? We've raced the Levels in Youngstown on Lake Onatrio and enjoy sailing to Lemington and Pelee in
Ontario Canada.
Bryan