By polite I mean don't make it a personal attack or infer that anyone who has different ideas to you are idiots, lyers and generally inept ******....
Paul Under sail means under sail not under power and yes I have many miles under power as well. But then unlike you I am not a sailing GOD and...
Yes it is common practice on many modern boats, though I tend to think they are not as unforgiving as the later IOR boats. And yes every rating...
That all depends one ones experiance. In my experiance most IOR boats carried bucket loads of weatherhelm when sailed to windward with the main...
In the old IOR boat's it was typical when going to windward that the main was feathered for the most part. As mentioned in an earlier post it is...
In my investigation of placement of CLP I have come across a couple of theories regarding whether or not to use the rudder or portion of in the...