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Old 07-06-2009
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It is much easier to control the boat downwind with a genova only and the main does not blanket the genova when reefed.

Upwind the genovai creates the main driving force. The direction of the wind is changed by the genova and the main cannot create too much forward drive but causes heeling.
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