On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:24:13 -0400, "Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom
wrote:

Show me an America's cup where on a dead downwind leg boats are
jybing downwind and coming out ahead and I might give a little credence
to your nonsense. The races I've watched show these cutting edge vessels
running straight downwind and only turning slightly now and then to
keep boats upwind of them from blocking their wind.


This has got to be the dumbest thing you've said in, well, at least a few days.

Perhaps you will recall that they showed the downwind "laylines" - what do you think that
was about?

Not to mention the question was specifically regarding boats without spinnakers.

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