Hi Wouter,



Never did that; always single-handed so weight was involved...

However in the Dart and double-handed and overpowered (I had a light crew) we found it very fast (VMG-wise) to dump the jib into a stable S-shape up-wind rather than dump the traveller or the main; I read about it in the the Dart manual and it worked a treat. It's tricky to sail like that because you can't sail to the jib, but when you get the knack, you seemed to point higher and go faster... My son used to call it "s-club seven-ing the jib"... We would go as fast as the 'heavy weights' up wind and point higher and then take off down wind because of our weight... Apart from the occasional pitchpole it was great...

Wouldn't work with high aspect ratio jibs I would guess...

Regards,
Colin
www.sailwave.com