how strong does the wind have to be before I can't be making any windward progress? (I have a catalina 27, and i was under a storm jib and double reefed main, we didn't have excess weather helm or too much heeling, it was blowing 20-25 kts, & we weren't making much progress to windward.)
headway in a Force 6
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That's because you essentially had no sails up, and what you had was extremely flat. That's the trade off you made between not heeling and forward progress, or lack thereof. We sail in high winds regularly here in San Francisco Bay. A 110 jib with a single or double reefed main, or an 85% jib with a single reef would work well in those conditions. You have a great solid boat.
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