"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
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And just what do you STILL fail to understand about the virtue of a
*balanced* sailplan?

Anytime a real sailor sees a yacht proceeding under main alone or under
jib
alone it tells a tale of ineptitude.

Wilbur Hubbard




Balanced sailplan??? In increasingly gusty conditions that had us
putting the genny to bed minutes later? Where are we headed and why?
What is the VMG? Better still, what is wrong with our VMG? When your
sailplan IS unbalanced when exactly should you take action and why?

Because you really can't answer ANY of these questions relavent to the
video clip, why embarrass yourself again and again? In 40 minutes crew
will be here and you'll still be scratching yourself and planning your
evening of TV.



RB
35s5
NY




An unbalanced sailplan requires the rudder (and helmsman) to work harder
trying to counteract the unbalanced forces on the keel. It reduces
efficiency. It makes it harder to maneuver efficiently and safely.
Increasingly gusty conditions require smaller *sails*. Reef the mainsail AND
change to a smaller headsail if the winds pipe up so much that your existing
sail area is too large. This will maintain a balanced sailplan for the
conditions at hand and will keep the rudder working at maximum efficiency
with reduced effort.

Any FOOL who strikes the headsail because it decides to blow about 20 knots
and operates under mainsail alone is no sailor. If your stupid, wind-up
genny is overpowered then wind the damned thin up about halfway and this
will reduce your sail area. Isn't that supposed to be one of the benefits of
the abominations? Along with this you should take a reef in on the mainsail.
The fact of the matter is a sloop sailing under main alone in brisk winds
will have excessive weather helm and reduced helm control. If you haven't
learned these simple facts in the ten years or so you've been trying to
learn to sail then you're just plain stupid and hopeless.

Sometime when you have some spare time at home on the computer try looking
up a couple of sailing yacht terms.

1) center of effort
2) center of lateral resistance

Then try as best you can with that defective brain of yours to apply the
concepts to an unbalanced sailplan. Dope!


Wilbur Hubbard