Ed,



nice dissertation on mast rake and rudder rake.



You wrote:

To adjust this, you simply rake your mast aft to make the tiller crossbar come to windward; moving your mast forward will cause you to sail with your tiller crossbar more to leeward.



Raking your mast aft, like steering a windsurfer, will cause the tiller crossbar to shift more to leeward, thus 'heading up' the boat to windward. And the opposite by moving the mast fore, as in falling off on a windsurfer, would tend to make your crossbar go to windward, and the boat would fall off to leeward.



As I said, nice dissertation, just wanted to clear up that one, small point about crossbar and boat direction.



I enjoyed your post.



P.S. re-read for the fourth time and now I see what you meant, that to balance the CE, you would MOVE the crossbar in the direction you stated to balance the forces acting on the boat. Oh, never mind.