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Joined: Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:47 pm Posts: 133 Location: Spokane, WA
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Greetings all,
While sailing this weekend I noticed that my jib was quite flat on the upper 2/3rd during various beam reaches. The wind speed all day was a published 8-10 mph so not very much. I'm thinking that for wind such as this I should have introduced some camber in my jib to enhance the air flow over the main. I thought the slot looked pretty good as the jib was not back-winding the main nor was the slot to big. I've not found any "camber tables" related to wind speed in the books that I have. Can anyone comment to this?
I was also thinking that I should be able to point a little closer to the wind than I was. Possibly I do not have enough rake on the mast? (I'm currently fastening my side stays on the third hole down of the chainplates).
This definately requires more reading.
Fair winds,
Eric
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