Donal wrote:

There wasn't much wind for the outward journey. We had 8 kts and, as usual
it was on the nose!!!

Fortunately, we had departed early, so we sailed for a while. We made
between 1.5 and 3 kts. I played with the travellor position. I set it much
lower than I used to. I can report that we didn't go any slower.

Why would you want to set the traveller lower? That's usually done to
depower the main, which doesn't seem to be what you were after.

I can understand travelling the main down in a drifter to flatten the
sail, but 8kts shouldn't be low enough that you would want to flatten -
seems to me you should be powering up. What gives?

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