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Old 04-13-2009
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Originally Posted by tigerregis View Post
When I raced on big boats, light and heavy had to do with apparent wind speed. The light was good to 10-12 after that the 1. The boat carried 28 sails and had something for everything, including trysail and blooper. If you've ever gone 14 knots under a blast reacher and two reefs, you know what a suit is.
I've done 14 just barely cracked off onto a close reach with 3 reefs, and the main was 6' short of a full hoist so really, 4 reefs!

And no, you crazy multi zealots... it was on a mono

Last edited by ste27; 04-13-2009 at 09:16 PM.
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