The Captains Nemesis wrote:

We change tune cap for every race pretty much, and adjust lowers
during the race as conditions change.

I'm not a big fan of that, but in some classes I guess it works well enough to be
worth the bother. The paradox I dislike is that to flatten the main you have to
loosen the lowers. One thing I have done is tighten the lowers for a chop, but it
was probably more of a psychological gain.



We drop the lowers off at the end of the day but caps stay as set till
the next week.

Doesn't that bend the mast while it sits parked? Other boats I've seen set up the
spi pole uphaul to the foredeck tightly, opposes the lowers. Not sure that's worth
the bother either.

One place it could make the biggest difference is if you could set the boat up for
power off the starting line, when you are likely to be trying to accelerate and/or
get in a pinching contest; losing a few inches here can mean losing many boats.



Maybe I'm more spoiled than I realize, I hate boats & guitars that won't stay
in tune pretty much indefinitely....

Yep, a pita!
Our boats are stiff enough to stay in tune.

That's good. I struggled with a few that were not, rebuilt two so that they were.
It still makes me wince to see some of the static loads people casually put on the
boats.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King