CANDChelp wrote:

Do you mean you're trimming for an absolutely neutral helm?

With sails set properly, I can walk away from the helm of Ghost or Alien
without locking the wheel.

Hmm. Interesting. I have always set my boats to self-steer on a
slight weather helm. I'm not sure that I believe the slight lift
at the rudder helps move us more to windward, as many authors
suggest, but I do know from bitter past experience that an
absolulte neutral helm will easily become a lee helm with
potentially dire connotations. And I will never leave a helm
unattended and unlashed. But then, nothing I've sailed has had a
wheel, other than when attached to a trailer. Must be different
physics...

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