Do you honestly believe that more heel = sailing faster?


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It most certainly can.

True... very good. Now, here's the key question: when?

A good sailor must be able to identify when the boat is within an efficient range of
sailing attitudes, and when to depower. In other words, how much heel is good, and how
far over does it go before it starts getting bad. This varies *very* much from boat to
boat; and with a given boat it will vary according to the conditions.

This is from a performance point of view, a lot of people who ride around on sailboats
either find heeling to be exciting, and try to maximize it; or find it disconcerting
and try to avoid it.



When your trawler "heels" they call that "listing", and it may
coincide with poor performance and handling. Try not to let that
confuse you too much.

I'm not the one who is confused here.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King
On-line since 1989 and still 100% sock-puppet free