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To be really honest, I don't know what I will do in your very specifically defined problem.

In http://www.catsailor.com/forums/sho...Number=118065&page=&vc=1 I had given two situations were I would do one or the other, albeit without a spinnaker added. Your problem resides between these two examples and as such the choice will be less clear. Naturally, a crossover point will be found somewhere between these two examples. At at this point it doesn't matter what you choose as both setups will be perfectly matched in performance. It appears to me that your proposed problem is very close to this crossover point. Without exactly knowing where this crossover point is found but still forcing me to be close to it my answer can only be increasingly a guess.

Mostly because I now have to know (estimate) very accurately were this this crossover point lays. I think I have a pretty good idea of where the crossover region lays = set of crossover points (depending on conditions) with a decent margin of uncertainty on either side of it. But when you force me to go into this region then I'm lost for an conclusive answer. In all the other examples, we were sufficiently far away from this region to be certain about what is the favoured setup. Now I'm not.

Wouter


Wouter,

Thanks, this is what I was trying to understand.

You feel there is a magic place where for the same all up sail area a mainsail will be the same speed as a 2 sail boat (both with kites). BUT you also believe that both configurations have merits.

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