Thanks, Will.

My sails were made by Randy Smyth, personally for me. I started out using his batten numbers, prebend and rake settings.



Most of the top half of my sail wouldn't flatten, no matter how hard I DHauled (18:1) and sheeted (6:1). So I increased the amount of prebend slightly, and the sloppy luff got better, and the deep pocket got somewhat flatter, but still deeper than I like. So I'm already experimenting with getting this beauty dialed in... so I'm in no way convinced the spreader rake is necessarily dialed in right already. So in experimenting for the right spreader rake, what explicitly should I be looking for when I sail test it... what specific effects does too much/little rake have? (Other than the change in rotation)



And I totally agree with you on the K.I.S.S. principle - that's why I have a one piece bungie rotator in the first place! I can solo my sloop rigged 5.0 and keep up in a tacking duel handily, partly because I never have to touch the rotator. Sorry you don't like them



I guess as I predicted in my first post, this is not the way to go... I'll just beef up my bungie and let the spreaders find their proper setting independently.



Thanks again,