settings for broadreach?
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Forget about block placement for now
Read the tell tales. If the outside top of the Genoa is stalled but the bottom is not, move the car back in order to flatten the bottom of the sail and fill in the top and vice-a-versa. Once they both flow and break together, control flow with sheet tension so that both the top and bottom backside tales flows steadily and the inside tales just start to flow. Same deal on the main sail - read the tell tales. If both top and bottom are stalled, ease the traveler out. If the top is stalled but the bottom is not, ease the main sheet to get more twist. You will need more twist on a reach opposed to sailing upwind. Once you know that your tell tales are flowing well, then get a general reference regarding placement of the boom, blocks, etc but only use these positions as a general reference. Always sail by the tales.
Read the tell tales. If the outside top of the Genoa is stalled but the bottom is not, move the car back in order to flatten the bottom of the sail and fill in the top and vice-a-versa. Once they both flow and break together, control flow with sheet tension so that both the top and bottom backside tales flows steadily and the inside tales just start to flow. Same deal on the main sail - read the tell tales. If both top and bottom are stalled, ease the traveler out. If the top is stalled but the bottom is not, ease the main sheet to get more twist. You will need more twist on a reach opposed to sailing upwind. Once you know that your tell tales are flowing well, then get a general reference regarding placement of the boom, blocks, etc but only use these positions as a general reference. Always sail by the tales.
Setting For broad Reach
Rick: Here's how simple this would be if you had a copy of my SAIL TRIM CHART. The CHART displays the wind speeds along the top and down the side are the sail trim controls for the main and jib. This is what the CHART would be telling you for medium wind: TRAVELER - leeward of center MAINSHEET - ease until it luffs, then trim to stop luffing. HALYARD - Medium tension OUTHAUL - Medium tension CUNNINGHAM - Medium tension VANG - Medium to max tension DRAFT POSITION - Full (about 20%) DRAFT POSITION - 50% to 55% TELLTALES - All streaming and top just stalls MAST BEND - Medium TWIST - Medium LEECHLINE - Medium CREW POSITION - Windward/forward SLOT - Medium to wide I mean what could be simplier!! The setting may not be right on because every boat is different but it gets you into the ball park and you go from ther. There are also another set of setting displayed the same way for the jib. Here's the problem most beginning and intermediate sailors have when referring to the chart. It is great they know WHAT settings to apply but they don't completely understand twist or draft depth and draft position BUT I've sovled that problem also. I wrote a book called THE SAIL TRIM USERS GUIDE, which tells you WHY you are making a particular sail trim adjustment. It is the companion to the SAIL TRIM CHART. Both the book and the chart take the guess work out of jib and mainsail adjustment. What you'll find if you follow my suggestions is an amazing thing happens. You get so good at sail trim that you don't need to refer to them anymore and sailing then becomes more pleasurable than you have ever imagined. Give both the chart and book a try. They are sold with a money back guarantee. If you don't feel you learned anything I'll give you you money back and you can keep the stuff - give them to a friend and see if he gets anything out of it!! I've sold over 10,000 books and charts WORLDWIDE and have yet to have one come back so I would not expect you to be the first.
Rick: Here's how simple this would be if you had a copy of my SAIL TRIM CHART. The CHART displays the wind speeds along the top and down the side are the sail trim controls for the main and jib. This is what the CHART would be telling you for medium wind: TRAVELER - leeward of center MAINSHEET - ease until it luffs, then trim to stop luffing. HALYARD - Medium tension OUTHAUL - Medium tension CUNNINGHAM - Medium tension VANG - Medium to max tension DRAFT POSITION - Full (about 20%) DRAFT POSITION - 50% to 55% TELLTALES - All streaming and top just stalls MAST BEND - Medium TWIST - Medium LEECHLINE - Medium CREW POSITION - Windward/forward SLOT - Medium to wide I mean what could be simplier!! The setting may not be right on because every boat is different but it gets you into the ball park and you go from ther. There are also another set of setting displayed the same way for the jib. Here's the problem most beginning and intermediate sailors have when referring to the chart. It is great they know WHAT settings to apply but they don't completely understand twist or draft depth and draft position BUT I've sovled that problem also. I wrote a book called THE SAIL TRIM USERS GUIDE, which tells you WHY you are making a particular sail trim adjustment. It is the companion to the SAIL TRIM CHART. Both the book and the chart take the guess work out of jib and mainsail adjustment. What you'll find if you follow my suggestions is an amazing thing happens. You get so good at sail trim that you don't need to refer to them anymore and sailing then becomes more pleasurable than you have ever imagined. Give both the chart and book a try. They are sold with a money back guarantee. If you don't feel you learned anything I'll give you you money back and you can keep the stuff - give them to a friend and see if he gets anything out of it!! I've sold over 10,000 books and charts WORLDWIDE and have yet to have one come back so I would not expect you to be the first.
Get Don's Book
I am still learning from it; however, lately I have been trimming my sails, then checking his book to see how I'm doing, and he's right. It begins to sink in and I find that more often I am properly trimming my sails, almost instinctively. The best part is understanding the why of the process. Once you begin to get a handle on that, a lot of things fall into place. Like I said, I ain't no expert, but I know a good learning tool when I use it. Alan P.S. I have no economic interest. Just MHO based on my experience.
I am still learning from it; however, lately I have been trimming my sails, then checking his book to see how I'm doing, and he's right. It begins to sink in and I find that more often I am properly trimming my sails, almost instinctively. The best part is understanding the why of the process. Once you begin to get a handle on that, a lot of things fall into place. Like I said, I ain't no expert, but I know a good learning tool when I use it. Alan P.S. I have no economic interest. Just MHO based on my experience.
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