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Old 10-18-2007
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It sounds counterintuitive, but we've found it helpful to put a single reef in the mainsail -- especially in light air -- when trying to sail deep with the asym. This lets the breeze spill over and fill the chute. It is such a huge sail that having it draw nicely more than makes up for the lost mainsail area.

Otherwise we would be limited to a much higher reaching angle and the VMG would go way down.
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