Yesterday, I tried a few times to do the wild thing with my boardless boat, an old Nacra 5.7.
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<br>The wind was about 12-15 knots and the crew weight was about at 420.
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<br>Needless to say, we are now very good at righting the boat!!!
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<br>Question is it possible to do it with a boardless boat. It seems that each time that I was holding it for a few minutes, we would end up in the water: as soon as the winward hull was higher than 4-6 feet, I could not head down because my rudder was cavitating
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<br>I had my crew sitting on the leward hull and I was sitting in the middle of the tramp. We were heading into a beam reach, ifting the hull and heading down slowly. The speed seemed to be much better than a normal downwinf hull. My bridle fly was pointing at close to 90deg to the boat.
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<br>My mast is raked alot and I have a fairly strong weather helm but I did compensate the pull by raking my rudders forward to have a very slim pull. I am also thinking about decreasing the mast rake to have something more neutral.
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<br>Anyways, at least the water was good
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<br><br><br>Charles Leblanc [color:blue] Nacra 5.7 #123 </font color=blue>