"Jere Lull" wrote in message
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On 2008-08-12 01:14:53 -0400, lid (Jonathan Ganz) said:

In article
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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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Yes, I think I recall that also... that would account for a lot of it.


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