Brobu,

See my other post. I think some of it may work on the I-17 as well as it has a relative flexible mast as well. The FX-one is probably better of using the old methode.

I trust you see the intent of the experimental manouvre ! It is to speed up the tack itself and keeping the mainsail trim unaltered.

But I'm giving myself some time to evaluate the effectiveness. The first tries are always awkward and effectiveness is only proven or disproven after one has really tried to make it work.


Also I found that I can tack my F16 doublehanded in (selftacker) sloop mode without touching any sheet. Just by carefull steering and modest roll tacking. However I'm currently slow to come out of the tack as the main powers up to soon. The jib doesn't get enough lead time to power up. Hence the "let the traveller out a bit" experiment. Thinking it through it occured to me that the same procedure can be expected to work while sailing without a jib. Still, the fact that my mastrotation is independent of the traveller/boom position may really help as well.

Wouter