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Originally Posted by Jeff_H
I may be wrong but I seem to recall that some of these boats came with cabin top mounted travellers. There's not much you can do with a cabin top traveller. The kinds of quick traveller adjustments and sheet trimming is pretty much out of the question given the high frictional loads and difficulty in getting adequate sheet tension without excessive boom bend. Jeff
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This boat has a proper traveller just in front of the
wheel so this cannot be the problem. The only gribe I have is that this version has the standard keel and not the racing keel so this cannot be helping.
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Originally Posted by Jeff_H
and great in heavy air, bladed out with massive amounts of backstay tension.
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That was in fact the original question: How much is massive backstay tension?
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Originally Posted by Jeff_H
Your question about keeping a genoa up for balance ignores the fact that the leech of a #1 genoa moves the center of effort aft relative to a number 3, even though the sail itself is at the forward end of the boat.
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It is true that a genoa has a center of effort further back than that of #3 but surely it should still be in front of the centre of resistance of the boat. Otherwise there would be nothing to balance out the main and you would always have weather helm.