hmmm...why you cant point. my guess...you are strapping in the genoa before you get up to your polars.
Are you shifting gears, that is, putting enough power into your headsail to get you to the speed you want before you flatten it out and try to point? The number one reason for not being able to point is lack of boat speed, followed closely by not keeping the boat flat. Get your speed up and tell your crew that by the end of the race their butts oughta look like a phillips head screw...then you should be able to point with the rest o the fleet. as far as tension on your caps...when a local guy from up here won C27 high point (as opposed to your local guy down there, chrisd) he said he loosened his rig "to the point where it appeared dangerous." We have it pretty light here, but I'd try to match your rig tension to whatever pressure you are expecting even if it means retuning every race. my 2 centavos. tf > My problem is that I can't point with the rest of the fleet even though > I have trimmed to roughly the description you have sent. I am really > curious how much rake you have tuned in from the start, my guts tell me > that I don't have enough mast rake tuned from the very start. Any idea > how much rake you have tuned in ? and how tight your uppers are.
