From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Fri Jul 23 2004 - 21:15:57 BST
Dear forum,
Sailing a boat involves a good deal of Dynamic activity. Maintaining a
balance between static experience and DQ is the essence of good sailing...
No. 9 Every boat has a sweet spot - a precise steering angle for optimum
performance upwind. Every boat also has a groove, which is the range off
acceptable steering angles. It's up to the skipper to learn both. The lower end of this
range is for acceleration. At this angle, both jib telltales should be
streaming straight aft. The luff of the jib should rarely break, but the leeward
telltales should never stall.
The center of the groove is the sweet spots where the boat should be sailed
75 percent of the time. Here you should steer so the weather telltale is
slightly stalled. The other end of the groove is the pinching mode, which is used in
breezy conditions, especially in flat water. This side of the groove is
usually higher than simply letting the weather telltale lift. On most boats you can
actually steer so the front of the Jib breaks as much as a foot back from the
headstay for short periods.
No. 10 When in doubt, copy the fast guys.
http://www.myrc.org/Library/boatsped.htm
All the bets,
Mark
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