G'day,

The luff tension is inadequate. Not enough purchase, too much friction from the batten camber inducers. Working on it. May also be some luff round issues?

Not sure what you mean about swapping the rudders? All we do is rotate them through 180 degrees. The helmsman has 2 tiller extensions. When the boat is stationary he pushes one, pulls the other and round they go. The slow part is coming to a halt, although reverse sheeting the sails does this pretty quickly. With practise, we should be able to luff head to wind until nearly stopped, then sheet in the new aft sail, move crew forward and spin the boat round to hard on the wind on the new tack. This will be slower, but should have better vmg. Hope this is clear. We will be making a video next time we go sailing which may be a bit clearer.

Tacking from reach to reach we are definitely quicker, although this is not a whole lot of help!

Tacking downwind we are definitely slower, but crew weight movement will speed this up.

Regards,

Rob