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Charlie Crews
We have "skill challenges" once a month at our club. I have had a varying degree of success with my 37c "Kalaukia". One of the (many) good things about Hawaii is 365 days a year sailing weather.My best point of sail is beam reach, thanks to the staysail. I recently put a 135% jib on and have improved pointing into the wind greatly - in fact I can point with the best (15 kts of wind or better). The key to pointing is watching the tell tales very closely and (almost) anticipating the wind shifts. The tell tales will forwarn you of a pending shift before you actually see or feel it.