Rich Hampel wrote:

In article , Richard Casady
wrote:



I think it was clipper ship Flying Cloud that did more than 400 miles
in 24 hours. I call that fast. Only thing wrong with a square rig is
that they don't go to windward all that well.

Casady


..... and the best way to tack them is to 'wear' them around a 270 ...
NO THANK YOU.


No, that's Wearing - not Tacking.

There is a nice Power Point presentation on the Elissa group.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elissa1877/files/