Walt wrote:


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?


I'm not very good at sail trim.

During the winter, there was some discussion here about travellor
position. It seems that I have been setting it too high. I've been
looking forward to doing some trials. However, it isn't easy in a 32 ft
boat in the Solent - the boat is too slow to respond, and the wind is
too variable. I used to set the travellor above the centreline, so that
the boom was actually on the centreline. Yesterday, I dropped the
travellor to about 4 inches below th c/l.

Also, the 8kts was the true wind speed, so we had about 10 over the deck.


Regards


Donal
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