Please do. But what is the rationale? It seems to me that at 10:1 the sheet wouldn't pay out quickly enough in extreme winds and there would be lots of "string" on the tramp.
Also, at my last outing at GYC, Stefan says he stopped using the main sheet all together (12-15 knots). Instead he used the downhaul to depower in the worst of the gusts. Comment?
I have a GP mainsail with a big head (about 980mm I think) and so it pulls harder than the original Landy sail I had.
The fat head also means that when I do sheet out, it has more effect.
I was also struggling to sheet the gp mainsail when flat trapping withount bending in and so loosing RM.
So far, it appears to be working, I was worried at the Grafham Cat open last year when the forecast (that arrived) was howling and NEARLY dropped a purchase, but that weekend went OK so I've decided to keep it. I also think that if the F18 CREWS are using 10:1 and they get both hands, sailing single handed with slightly smaller mainsail I can have 10:1 also. IT does mean I can play the mainsail while trapping flat!
Yes I have more string on the tramp!
