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I recently cured a 'manufacturing issue' on the forestay of my F18 to modify the jib height to accomodate better purchase on the jib tack. Interestingly, I also noticed, all other aspects being more or less equal, that my boat began pointing a bit higher, and seemed to have more drive. I assume that the drive aspect is related to a more efficient overlap, but I am somewhat stumped about the pointing improvement. (I'll take it though!)

Can someone give me so quick insight into how what happened to make the overall boat improvement be fundamentally dependant on the tallness of the 'little guy' up front, and whether or not any experience tells you where to position the head of the jib for maximal performance? Thanks in advance.

R


On my old Hydra the Jib went best lower down but with more tension.
The tension was what I found most important and I wanted the jib lower for better center of effort and more flow across the bottom of main..