"Nav" wrote in message
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| We regularly sail faster than true wind at wind speeds of 4-6 knots on a
| broad reach with the gennaker. It's not at all unusual in performance
| yachts and almost a boring fact of life for big cats.

Oh yeah... those 'performance' yachts and their deadly gennakers.....
woooooo!!
Doing 6 knots in 6kts of wind..... man that must be one slippery ocean! ;-)

CM