Thread: headsail furlers -the good, the bad and the ugly...sound off!
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Default headsail furlers -the good, the bad and the ugly...sound off!
On 2008-08-12 01:14:53 -0400, lid (Jonathan Ganz) said:

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RichH wrote:
Doesn't that give you a fairly unbalanced helm? That's a lot of CE forward.

Not on a cutter rig (mast at ~40-50% LOA) where the combined CE is
usually in front of the mast.

With a lot of CE forward, it seems to make sense that one would have lee helm.
This in and of itself seems unbalanced to me. I'd much rather have a bit of
weather helm vs. lee helm.

As I recall, cutter rigs place the the mast further aft.

What's determines "helm" is the balance among the CEs of the sails,
keel, and hull.

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