[quote=erice]i don't have a barberhauler system for the jib and you're right, pulling the jib right in starts back winding the main
i know this is heresy in the "cat. racing in the 90's" bible but my gps implies that backwinding the main a little isn't the performance killer that rick white says
BUT, it does allow me to point a degree or 2 higher which i need to tack up the narrow channels around our racemarker island, (between the tourists in row boats, peddle boats, a couple of ferries and loads of bass fishermen trolling around randomly and refusing to look up from the water
i have moved the jib blocks out a smidgen and might try a bit further out, (to reduce the backwinding) and forward (as the top tell tale still breaks first) but i'm trying to avoid the added sheets and cleats of a barber hauler system which seem of marginal benefit with the short length of our downwind gybe sections
you know i can't stop posting these videos hehe
solo and jibless, still reasonable performance in medium air
http://vimeo.com/5075989
tacking around fishermen in the channel at 0.46sec
trying to avoid collision with fisherman texting as he motors at 0.53sec
http://vimeo.com/5258062
crash tack at 2.55sec as wind shift means island clearance lost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-kFg4cncnA <!-- editby --><em>edited by: erice, Jun 17, 2010 - 08:39 AM</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
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