2009-07-24; 13:24:28 EDT
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Michael, We need more information. What was the wind speed? Chop? And how fast were you going? (hull speed throught the water) Rummy In a message dated 7/24/2009 12:48:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mticse at gmail.com writes: Went out with the family on Sunday and wanted to play it safe. Drew the IMF mainsail approx halfway on the boom (the letter R on the sail wasn't showing). Wanted to keep things simple and used no jib. Centerboard was down all the way. The boat stayed flat as a pancake which was the desired effect. My wife wants no heeling whatsoever. Problem I had was I couldn't tack. It even had a hard time getting into irons and just couldn't cutover. The only way I could change direction was to spin 2/3's around in a jibe. I didn't want to experiment and let out more sail so we just enjoyed sailing the next hour like this. Is this normal behaviour? What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Michael -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Partial-Mainsail-tp24647946p24647946.html Sent from the Rhodes 22 mailing list archive at Nabble.com.See the original archive post