[quote=yurdle][quote=yurdle][quote]ummm.... i've never been that close to a pitchpole on my 5.2 and i had the mast almost straight up, but i guess i'm pretty light and on a lake there are few waves to stick the bow in..............[/quote]
This isn't almost pitching, or coming close and then having a wave to stuff it in. If I move my mast forward even a notch I can, will, and have, most definitely pitchpoled the crap out of it.
Last time I landed about 20 feet past the mast. The time before I was trapped and the crew wasn't and she started screaming when I flew over her head. Time before my crew went flying and I hit the mast. It happens.
The faster it goes the more the friction works against the hulls and the sails outrun them. On a reach, I start trapped with my feet by the main beam and at speed am straddling the rear beam.
I have a buddy with a 5.2 that hasn't had as much issue as me, and I think he's actually a notch forward of me, and I don't know exactly where the difference lies, but I know how mine works. Some lessons are easy to learn.[/quote]
I buried the leeward bow today almost to the beam and hardly slowed down...whole new experience to me. I was using my square top which has a COE much more aft. I'm thinking of raking forward a notch and trying it out.
My problem before may have been tied to the original main (or my inability to sail it.) [/quote]
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