When we discussed the last Texel we agreed on that it was ratcher messy race, most of them are, with restarts and so on. But we found one leg interesting, a pure upwind leg, and I checked the times there for the top boats and M20 had the best time, not by much. On the upwind "less is more"!

A fully powered up uni rigg WILL NOT GO FASTER if you add even more sail area with a jib ON THE UPWIND.

For a "normal" Texel race where you reach a lot the jib will make the boat faster. If the Texel rating is tuned against round texel then it makes sense that adding a jib makes it faster, but it may need some reworking for upwind/downwind racing in that case.

A uni rigg with spi is a pure upwind/downwind machine and has a lot of speed gaps when you are deviating for the pure upwind/downwind course. I have a lot of problems with that when I sail distance racing with the A-class with spin.

So are we talking about upwind/downwind performance or sailing around an island performance in this thread?

/hakan