CANDChelp wrote:

Again: I don't "wrestle with the helm" on Lady Kate because the
small rudder makes it unproductive: one wrestles with the sheets,
traveller, snotter instead.

So you agree that Donal needed to trim.
Thanks.

RB
I do not now wrestle with the Lady Kate helm because the small
rudder makes it unproductive. Finding out that that was the
case, was part of learning the boat. It was not an instantaneous
response.

I would still wrestle with the helm on Flying Tadpole from time
to time were I still campaigning her actively, in the
circumstances I have described.

I would expect others to also take a while to come to grips
thoroughly with a boat foreign to them in only a few hours
sailing, where there is a significant change in boat shape, or
sail layout, or size, or relative power of the rudder, among
sundry other things.
--
Flying Tadpole

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