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Old 10-21-2003
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Skipper,

You must have a real charm to find conditions like that on a regular basis, I suspect most of us see such conditions once or twice a season. I am curious to understand the physics of constantly heeling 40 degress and surfing - our keel boat usually only heels materially sailing close to the wind, or surfs when running before the wind, but never the two together. How do you manage to combine these two behaviors, other than perhaps during a hopefully transient, spinnaker broach?

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