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Wayne.B Wayne.B is offline
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On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:59:59 -0500, wrote:

We immediately struck
sails and tied everything down tight.

It's been my experience on several different boats that you are better
off with a double or triple reefed main and no jib. Having a little
bit of main sail up gives you far more control with only minimal risk
of being over powered. On boats with a very large main sail and/or
minimal reef points, a small staysail or storm jib might be the way to
go.

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