AccessAdventure wrote:
Now if I could just figure out about reaching the peddle drive to push thru coming about...
From somewhere in the mid teens to somewhere in the twenties, I stow the Mirage Drive because the boat really comes alive without it in those winds.
For when I need to come about instead of gybe, I use this bad boy,
http://www.foxworxpaddle.com/holopuni_classic.html, which doubles as my get-me-back-to-the-beach steering if/when the rudder fails.
It's nothing anybody would want to paddle any distance with, but it has a good, solid bite when needed for a few quick come-around strokes and once one gets the knack, it steers the AI quite well going anything up to 8 MPH. Above that, I just reduce sail to make the paddle work easier.
When the wind gets into the high 20's, I put the Mirage Drive back in because it's such a beast if/when I have go go directly into the wind - as in launching off of an onshore beach.
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