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Bloody Horvath Bloody Horvath is offline

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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:26:01 -0700, wrote this
crap:

The cunningham is esentially a rule cheater. It provides a way to
increase luff tension without pulling the sail outside the black
bands.

Or a sail that is cut so it has no room to increase luff tension- for
example, if the head is at full hoist and the gooseneck is fixed. Luff
tension is luff tension. If you can't get it by pulling the top
tighter, then you have to pull the bottom... and if the bottom is
fixed, then you need a cunningham.

BTW a lot of new sails are made with the tack free to float up & down
as tension is adjusted.... not fixed to the gooseneck.

BTW 2 if you have a sail that need the cunningham pulled on in light
air, then that sail is blown (or the luff boltrope has shrunk).

On your little boats. If you have a 60 ft. mast, like I do, it's not
easy to adjust main halyard tension. Or, during the race, the main
halyard stretches. Either way, a cunningham is easy to adjust.

I'm Horvath and I approve of this post.

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