Rick, could you give a comment about roll tacking cats?

We sail a Tornado, and have found the roll tack to be effective in medium wind conditions, especially if we are able to trapeeze. But in drifters (both persons on the tramp) we have found that it is faster to just steer trough the tack. What is your opinion?


Further, when it is really blowing, there is no time to do a roll tack, just move back on the boat, steer into the tack, and then sprint across to hook up on the other side (unless your timing is bad and you stop of course, then accentuate weight).
Comments?

We feel that the T tacks a lot better with the new rig..


We have always sculled to get trough a tack if we messed up, unless we start going backwards.. Then its back to reverse steering, fortunately, we have learnt a bit so we do fewer bad tacks each season.
I always tought that it was allowed to pull the rudder to steer the boat, but not to aid in propulsion as with sculling.