sail shape problem - curl in the material
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:28 pm
As Wallace Ross points out - using my images - our boat will be at a disadvantage on starboard tack with the jib wanting to backwind the main and at a disadvantage on port tack with the boat not making good power with the "loose looking" jib leech not directing air along the lee side of the main.
The main can have a similar problem. Even more disappointing is when the main is "built" on one tack and the jib on the other. I think even more hopeless. You cannot even sheet the sails the same on both tacks if you know what I mean.
Just trying help people who have this problem and wonder why their boat is so slow. I looked through the book today in a yacht club library.
S Vernon