Doug can see the traveller!???

Cheers MC

Bobsprit wrote:

Not enough draft in upper sections

Leach closed.

Correct. Traveller is wrong for current course.

RB

Why do you have a backstay antennae and no wire to it? Is the
wire lead up the mast and to the antennae at the top?

Not sure what you mean. The wires are inside the radar support tube.

RB

Why do you have a backstay antennae and no wire to it? Is the
wire lead up the mast and to the antennae at the top?.

I don't have a backstay antenna. What makes you think I do?
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You've got the crap dragged out of it!

Well I'm at a loss as to what that means.


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Draft too far forward (unless you're just coming out of some
chop, which doesn't look to be the case)

Gee it looks like 45% aft of the stick to me.

Not enough draft in upper sections

It's a brand new main. They cut them much flatter nowadays.

Leach closed..

Kinda hard to tell that from where your sitting. I was trimming the main
and the top batten was parallel to the boom. It was really light air.
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SAIL LOCO wrote:


Kinda hard to tell that from where your sitting. I was trimming the main
and the top batten was parallel to the boom. It was really light air.

Loco, I was offering critique of Navvie's 'perfectly' set & shaped main. For
some reason AOL will not let me look at your pictures.

For the leach, I like to look at the leach ribbons and the overall twist.
Sometimes it is hard to tell. In Navvie's pic you can't see the leach ribbons
(are they blue, for some reason? Are they missing?) but it looks like there is
no twist at all.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Look more carefully. There are ribbons at each battenb and they are all
flying at that moment. You simply can't see twist from that camera angle
so the twist must be sufficient to keep the top ribbons flying...

Cheers MC

DSK wrote:

SAIL LOCO wrote:


Kinda hard to tell that from where your sitting. I was trimming the main
and the top batten was parallel to the boom. It was really light air.


Loco, I was offering critique of Navvie's 'perfectly' set & shaped main. For
some reason AOL will not let me look at your pictures.

For the leach, I like to look at the leach ribbons and the overall twist.
Sometimes it is hard to tell. In Navvie's pic you can't see the leach ribbons
(are they blue, for some reason? Are they missing?) but it looks like there is
no twist at all.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Look more carefully. There are ribbons at each battenb and they are all
flying at that moment. You simply can't see twist from that camera angle
so the twist must be sufficient to keep the top ribbons flying...

Correct.


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Trains are a winter sport

Loco, I was offering critique of Navvie's 'perfectly' set & shaped main.
For
some reason AOL will not let me look at your pictures.

For the leach, I like to look at the leach ribbons and the overall
twist.

Doug,
Oh sorry. BTW my tells are flying.


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DSK wrote:


The navigator© wrote:


Here's a well cut main in light airs.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...56514380nkBEsE


Draft too far forward (unless you're just coming out of some
chop, which doesn't look to be the case)

Not enough draft in upper sections

You must be used to really baggy sails.

Leach closed.

No it isn't. You cant tell the twist from that camer angle

Why do you have a backstay antennae and no wire to it? Is the
wire lead up the mast and to the antennae at the top?

Well spotted. The wire is off.

Cheers MC