I’m sure there are plenty of other H17 racers around who have gotten to the top mark, made the turn to go back downwind, gone to pull the daggerboards up and realized they sailed the whole upwind leg with the boards up....
Yes, the 17 will still sail without the boards, but certainly not as well as with them. If you sail with the boards entirely removed, I think you’re also going to get a lot of drag from the open cavity in the bottom of the hull. Probably a lot of water squirting up from the hole in the deck too.
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