On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:03:00 GMT, Gary wrote:

Careful. The chap you are preaching to is the Chaplain. Google Roger
Long before you get to far into this. I should have.
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I'm aware that Roger is an experienced marine architect but that does
not necessarily make him a sailing expert. I have spent literally
thousands of hours racing keel boats (with some success), so I'm
fairly comfortable discussing what has worked for me. I think we all
agree that reducing heel angle will help to reduce weather helm but
there are various ways of doing that.