[quote=yurdle]I'm far from first class, and I don't know if the accessibility of the main or the inaccessibility of a large jib is more significant. I've got very little tiller time on an H18, so I can't really comment other than to say it's seemed to be a powerful and fast reaching boat. And a tank...except when an '86 snaps in half in the gulf and sends its crew swimming when prepping for the Dash last year.
Someone will probably disagree with me here, but if sails were engines, I'd equate the large overlapping jibs to a secondary engine, and the handkerchief jibs of modern boats more to a turbocharger.
The mains are also higher aspect (ie faster) yet easier to stall.
Again, just MHO FWIW.[/quote]
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