310 Main Trim

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Scott

Greeting! I find myself trimming the main on a Catalina 310 in San Francisco bay for some medium-serious PHRF racing. I have not sailed on a Catalina before, and the 310 seems unusually tender to me. With a 110% roller-furling jib and a relatively flat-cut main, she seems to carry an awful lot of heel in 15-20 kts of wind. We seem to mostly be driving on the jib upwind. Short of adding a lot of rail-meat, does anyone have any trim ideas? I want the owner/driver to try rolling up a little of the jib to reduce backwinding the main and get the weather helm under control. While I know that backwinding is not always slow, I can't imagine that it is fast to be carrying 15+ degrees of heel while flogging the main with the traveler all the way to leward. Unfortunately the boat has mid-boom sheeting and no adjustment on the backstay (it is in charter so has been "idiot-proofed" to a certain extent.) Any tips for : getting more draft down low/ getting more twist in the main / reducing weather helm / reducing heel / jib lead settings for this particular boat appreciated. You can email me directly : keck@visa.com if you wish. Thanks.
 
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robert taylor

basic stuff

more twist - ease boom vang or put traveler to windward. flat sail - tight halyard, tight outhaul, tight cunningham if there is a "shelf" in the main (otherwise the cunningham will move draft forward. The top batten should be roughly parallel to the boom. hope this helps rt reefing is probably what will help the most.
 
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