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8. Not our usual style. 9. Tack set just above the pulpit.
Tack line adjustment
A low tack means a straighter luff and
the cruising chute will behave more like
a headsail, which is exactly what you
need for reaching. The further off the
wind you go, the higher you want the
tack, so that the sail flies wider, which is
what we need for running. For optimum
performance we want the tack line to be
vertical. With the sheet trimmed, ease
the tack line off. If it goes straight up
then you can continue to ease the line as
you’re sailing dead downwind. If it goes
to windward then you are indeed sailing
dead downwind and you need to sail a
little higher to get the tack line vertical.
If it’s off to leeward you are sailing too
high, so either bear away or, if this is the
course you want to sail, lower the tack
until the line becomes vertical.
10. 12. 13.
11.
snuffer (Pic 11) and the cruising stops. The curling of the luff and need to bear away a little or sheet
chute will fly (Pic 12). Now is just the same as the lifting in. When it comes to gybing the cruising
sheet in. Then ease the sheet of the windward telltale on a chute we can always snuff the sail, set it
out until the luff starts to curl headsail. It tells us that we’re onto the other tack and then unsnuff it.
(Pic 13) and sheet in until it sailing too close to the wind It’s a safe way of going about things
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