Mark Michaelson suggests slight weather helm, as does Rick White. Both seem to agree that the rudders produce lift to windward in that configuration, which seems to outweigh the drag, performance-wise. Rick's diagram shows that the extra rake you use to do this, moves the CE aft. So when you turn the rudders to force the sterns to windward, the rudders produce what amounts to Lateral resistance, sharing the burden with your skeg, hulls and bows. Rick's diagram convincingly points out that this moves the CLR aft, balancing the CE. Net effect is you get one more player in the CLR game - - your rudders. Rick points out that thist does rob you of some power - - aft rake, that is, but Mark says explicitly that when he plays with some of the highest-tech boats there are, they use slight weather helm. After Mark set me straight, I looked up again in Rick's "Cat racing; for the Nineties" - I had forgotten most of this from the first go-around.



For pointing, you want those bows in, use the forward hole in the clew plate (I added an "in-haul" for offwind sailing, it's just a loop of line from front hole in clew plate to the Tack. Tighten the loop, instant draft) and tighten your downhaul and jib luff. (My jib halyard comes down the mast to a jamcleat - - is that 'factory' or an add-on?)



Sail Fast!