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And on the spinnaker thing earlier, the one on my boat 5.5 was very full cut, not at all like the newer taller, narrow ones, maybe that's why there was so much lee helm?

That can well be the case Tim. The first spis on the Taipans had to some extend the same behaviour. However since 2002 the spi cut is different and the leehelm is as good as gone. Also we are reaching higher speeds with these. The pre 2002 F16 spis were wrong in the cut somewhere.

I second gettting a spi cut for your boat.

Wouter



I have a 5.5 with an older full spinnaker also. At first I had problems in higher wind of having too much sail forward, which wants to push the boat to far down wind, causing me to have to *push* on the tiller to keep it on course. But I found that if remember to pull the boards up (which is optimal for down wind anyway) that the tiller steering is fine. If you have tiller push, other options are to adjust the rudder rake forward (using adjustment screws in rudder casings) and/or the mast rake back to adjust for this.

Patrick Ragen
Taipan 4.9 USA 274