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Nutsy,
I really am not happy getting into this discussion but I'd like to remind the "heelers" that you can heel a boat to a capsize without forward motion. A well trimmed boat will be the boat with max forward motion with min amount of heel! ALWAYS!! Heeling is a necessary evil to sail power and should be kept to a minimum. If your boat is heeling 30 Deg or more, it means you are shortening your affective sail plan height, your sail plan is getting outside of your hull plan ( Causing weather helm). This heeling maybe increasing water line lenght but at the same time it is decreasing sail height, decreasing keel depth. decreasing rudder depth. Probably increasing leeway Try keeping the sail above the boat and not to the side and you'll sail fast and better Get the boat back on her feet. Nothing good happens bent over!! "I'LL DRINK TO THAT!" Ole Thom |
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