I agree, but not on the point of sail I was on, with ultra light wind.

Obviously racing one would be close-hauled. What I was doing
was just above a beam reach--upwind, maybe 20-30 degrees
above a beam reach--nowhere near close-hauled.

OzOne wrote

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:17:33 GMT, "John Cairns"
scribbled thusly:


"Bart Senior" wrote in message

That was the first time I used a spinnaker, albeit a flat cut reacher,
to
sail
upwind. I wonder if the Etchells class rules allow for something like
this?

IIRC, you can use a spinnaker to sail upwind but must not tack with
it.
On an Etchells you'd be blown away with this tactic. VMG to windward
under main and jib is just too good.


126, so yeah, they go OK
http://www.sailors.com/sfbay/racing/phrf-sf.html