DSK wrote:

Nav wrote:

Wrong again. Look at the references.


OK, I bow to your greater experience with googling and bookshelf
sailing. Heel your boat to 30 degrees all you want, it's fun. Who am I
to try and convince you to look around in the real world?


Don't you get it Doug? 30 degrees heel is quite normal (and often very
fast upwind) for most big keel boats! For proof look at the refs I've cited!
They also contain real tests of real boats by experts. The funny thing
is that the boats really are faster at the sort of angle I've quoted
than at 12 degrees. I guess you'd say they must all be wrong too? What
would Herreschof say?

Cheers.