This past season, for one of our fleet races, I borrowed a boat from another fleet member. (I was too lazy to take mine off the trailer. Wind 12-15 blow off the line DT'ed, the jib haylard broke, over backwards, race over.

Right the boat attach the jib sheets to the forestay. I tried my damdest to get the boat upwind to shore to fix the halyard. It was almost impossible to tack.

That being said if you wanted to try and sail a 16 w/o the jib you would have to rake the mast almost all the way forward then put the jib sheets on the forestay adjuster and pull them real tight.

It would still be no pinic to tack.

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