Well if you don't let the keel boat heel when going to wind you can't be
extracting energy from the winsd. The trick is to extract lots of
energy with good trim to create drive and that means you should be
prepared to heel up to ~30 degrees. As you note, the ones at the back
are way over pressed to about 45 degrees and coupled with bad mainsail
trim probably explains why they are there...

Cheers


Wally wrote:

Oz wrote:


Hmmm, it depends on the boat but that certainly doesn't look very
efficient to me. They look greatly overpowered, especially the
boats in the back of the fleet (probably why they're there). Look
how little sail is exposed at that angle. Are you suggesting that's
actually good trim?


Sorry, don't get the sail exposed comment?


Something to do with the apparent area of sail exposed to the wind being
reduced as the boat heels over?


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