the last tornado sailing olympics had this contrast when the usa team, expecting very light winds, used a very flat reacher hoping to outpace the other boats with deeper cut spins
To clarify that...they were actually hoping to be able to sail the chupacabra upwind as well as down in the light air. Even in light air, they expected to not be very fast downwind with that flat sail. However, they believed that they would gain more than enough distance upwind to live with losing a little time downwind.
