tpdavis473 wrote:
Well, the first article is pretty comprehensive. Goes into more detail than needed, IMNSHO. If you are sailing a Getaway, you don't need most of it. Set your forestay and your shrouds so you do not get two blocked when the mainsail is fully sheeted. That's a good starting point. From there, just sail to weather in your normal breeze and let the tiller go...count to five mississippi's . If you haven't had to alter course with the tiller...forget about it, your boat is dialed in. If you had to alter course with the tiller in that time, then reduce rake by a hole or increase rake by a hole for the next sail.
Just as an aside, don't read the stuff about tiller tug or rudder track. I'm not a stranger to physics and when I read such dreck, I shudder.
Thank you so much. Two coments:
Wouldnt it be better/safer to set the rake to trim the boat weather helm as explained in the article? The test you suggest would result in a neutral trim but Itd be better that after the 5 missisipis the boat had gone to irons, dont you think? That also would mean that a certain pull ac tion on the tiller is necessary to keep the boat on course while sailing. Is the way I have it now. I will follow your advice and pass on tiller tug.
Secondly its different the rake than the shoruds tension. The rake depends maily on the setting of the forestay, but for a given set of the forestay you can set more or less tension on the shrouds. (Of course more tension on shrouds will mean more rake at certain meassure) My problem is that my shrouds are already in the last hole and not very tensioned. They are not original. My intention is to enshorter them to get this tension on the first or second hole and be able to add more tension on them if needed.
On the other hand I dont have the clue to find out which is the propper tension of the shrouds given a forestay setting. The guy on the video uses this tool
http://www.sky-international.com/produc ... fessional/ pretty expensive by the way. I was asking a way to estimate an optimal tension without using the tool.
Kind regards to all.