Suhali is not the type of boat we are talking about. She has a long keel
highly balanced hull. Even so, she was only balanced with a working
rudder (i.e. not free).

Cheers MC

Gerard Weatherby wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:02:28 +1200, The_navigator© wrote:


Now the question is, if the hull form itself causes a very strong round
up and the wind was very strong could one achieve balance her by the
hull with no rudder?


When Robin Knox-Johnston won the first solo non-stop around the world race in
1969, he almost gave up in the Southern seas when his second auto-pilot broke.
Playing around with sail trim he was able to figure out how to keep the boat on
course.

(Not sure if this is exaclty what you mean -- he had a rudder, he just wasn't
steering it.)

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