Me again. Boat is still a 26 foot fractional
rig. Has forward tracks for a blade and genoa tracks for the 150 kevlar genoa. Sails are all new.
It has been suggested that with a kevlar sail there is little or no stretch so halyard adjustments on this genoa are not used to any degree. It seems then that my two most useful controls are the car positions and the sheet.
I have my genoa trimmed normally to have the inner luff telltales all breaking at the same time. Normall I have the leeward telltales streaming and the windward telltales just starting to break. I am thinking that I should probably be moving the cars forward in chop but other than that I am not as certain how to trim this sail for optimal upwind performance in light air.
Any genoa trimming for dummies advice to make this go faster upwind? Currently I point about as high as most boats in the fleet but there is always that one boat in any given condition that points higher while going as fast. My job is to determine what I can do to improve that little bit more....
Thanks again,
Mike