Yes, just be careful. A standard sail in a stiff breeze is pulling up along the length of the boom, therefore if you heavily vang, the sail is offering some opposing force to prevent bending the boom.
If you start sliding the purpose of your boat from the cruising column to the racing column you would want to maximize sail drive and isolate controls for more precise sail tuning by going to a shelf foot on the mainsail. Many a skippers who are use to pull on a vang with all his might overlooks that a gorilla move applied with racing precision can bend a boom. Going loose footed on a boat designed before the creation of the loose footed concept has some risk. To a racer who is on sail trim 100% of the time and outfitting the boat purely for performance in relatively short course racing will accept those risks as a good trade off to gain performance. Be sure you're tuning for a result, the end goal being an amount of twist, not just putting the vang on hard. If not adrenaline will get in the mix someday and you'll bend or break the boom. I'm down to one last boom to use up in art projects from my early race days. Phil Agur s/v Wing Tip Secretary/Treasurer Call Sign WCW3485 IC27/270A MMSI 366901790 www.catalina27.org Vessel Doc# 1039809 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Jones Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Boom vang But does the vang work on a loose foot? Lance Jones Cruising Captain, Barefoot Sailing Club Catalina 27TR SN 5455 Gaelforce! Capri 25 SN 411 Scottish Rebel! (AKA InstiGATOR) ----- Original Message ----- From: "tim ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Boom vang > basically, to tighten the leech of the sail...the cun pretty much just > brings the > draft foreward. > > tf
