Rod
About the tack, I guess it depends on your kite. Mine is voluminous (ie
old), and sets well quite deep downwind. If you�re in marginal wind
strengths (>20kts for me), allowing the tack freedom lifts the bow and gets
you going. It needs to be strapped in more as you harden up, but only up to
a point, where it seems to slow down again. I welcome views.
And the jib, well you roll it away if you�re as bad a sailor as me!
If you keep it up and it�s windy, it simply narrows the gap between going
fast and being hopelessly overpowered �ie, slow. If you�re good, you can
find that groove and live in it, but I�m not that good, and I find that I am
more likely to end up at the bottom mark in some semblance of order ready
for the upwind leg if I drop to a two-sail. That�s a low-risk approach
which if I managed to race more often might quickly give way to three-sail
reaching.
The further point though is that I can�t convince myself that it improves
the flow over the rig taken as a whole. It sure feels fast (hairy?), but we
don�t have enough other 27�s here to do boat for boat testing to make the
point.
Hydraulic brakes are much more expensive here and hardly used. Drums with
rod linkage are easy home-fit, dirt cheap and rinsable. Right or wrong, I
suspect that whatever metals you use in salt water occasionally will cause
trouble, so may as well make it as painless to bin as possible. There is no
problem with braking power with 4 drums.
Grant
>Grant,
>Question, did I understand correctly, you run with the spin tack 4 to
>6 ft. off the bow sprit? Second question do you not loose the double
>slotted advantage rolloing in the jib when running closer(90 app) to the
>wind with the spin, my understanding was to only bring in the jib when
>going deep downwind? Just trying to learn more here.
> Thank you Rod F-27 #345
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