"CANDChelp" wrote in message
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And I will never leave a helm
unattended and unlashed.

I only said "I can walk away." I lock it off or hit the autopilot button.


Wow! We're so impressed! You can trim the sails so well that you can use an autopilot!
Can you teach us how to do that?

On my first keel boat, a full keel design, the boat could be trimmed to sail without
lashing the tiller at all, if it was on a beam to close reach. On several occasions I
went about 20 miles like that - Marblehead to Boston in a NW breeze.


-jeff
If you can't say something nice, say something surrealistic. -Zippy