RB confuses balancing a boat so it will hold a course 10 seconds in a protected bay, with
doing it on a full keel boat for hours at a time in the open ocean.

I sailed an Irwin 30 for a season (not the best boat, but it was free) and it would track
for limited periods with the wheel locked. Sometimes a few minutes, other times 10
seconds. Even my Nonsuch could do it sometimes.


"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
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I call Bull****... it can't be done on any fin keeler!


CM

"CANDChelp" wrote in message
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| On my first keel boat, a full keel design, the boat could be trimmed to
sail
| without
| lashing the tiller at all, if it was on a beam to close reach.
|
| Yup. I was taught how to do that in the J30, which could be a finicky
boat.
| Donal needs to learn this.
|
| RB