Jack, you tuned your mast according to Mike Kratz's technique and want to make a try upcoming weekend? Please let me know how it has worked!
As some of you (and I) expected, we were way too flat at the extreme prebend settings. Even though the wind was 20+, we could not power up in the lulls (20-).
That was with rake at 4", tension at 800#.
The second day, with 18-20, we backed off to 3" rake and 600#...we were still underpowered except in the puffs.
Sooo....I guess the conventional wisdom is still about 2 to 2 1/2" rake and 400-700 tension.
That is some prebend with the ability to downhaul to as much as it takes. This is with an alloy stick of course.
