>Wouter, you said "But honestly; like you said H16,H17 and TheMightyHobie18 don't really need a smooth traveller when they are sailed as intending during their design stage." - does the method I'm currently using confrom to "sailed as intended"
or is there a better way to do this?


Let me put it this way :"Do you have a choice ?"

Apparently during the design stages it was not envisioned that the main traveller would be moved while supporting the mainsheet tension.

But don't worry to much Jerry. I've seen plenty of crews go blindingly fast on these platforms. You just have to find out the optimal setting and remember it. Again, we all started playing our travellers only with the introduction of the spinnakers. In addition. The squaretop mainsails seem to want more precise mainsheet tension to perform optimally. I hate to loose such a setting only to handle a gust. This was the reason why I was experimenting with using the traveller on the upwind as well. This reason this discussion was held on the F16 forum. But your H17 should be less critical in this as well. Your go fast trim settings are set by other controls.

Your current approach looks awfully like the one I used on boats that didn't feature a smooth traveller.

Wouter