Ed

Yep, forestay tension is all about mainsheet We werent playing the main sheet up wind, just the traveller

The rudder blades are pretty good, nothing major on either. It's not a stall, the reason I say that is earlier in the race we sailed through a wake or something that tripped the flow on both rudders, wierd feeling, like there as nothing attached to the tillers. A quick wiggle of the tiller, the flow reattached and we were again. We didn't have any issue boosting downwind with the kite on either gybe, so I'm thinking more and more its a daggerboard issue

Port for us - something weird going on....

If I had weather helm on both tacks I would indeed be looking very carefully at the rig. we were on the no2 jib, and sheeting was consistent, its was on every tack that port had weather helm, starboard was finger tip control. If it was a foil or rudder rake, I would expect to feel it on both tacks, but I'm not (cassette rudders by the way, so no chance of kicking back. It seems to be pointing towards a foil twisting when loaded in a particular direction, time for a close look at the rudder cassettes and daggerboard cases for cracks

Flatish water, we were beating upwind so the tide effect was irrelevant

Sailing the GBE last night upwind with enough breeze to fly a hull. On one tack, helm was pretty neutral, with a bit of weather helm coming on when we started to lift a hull. On the other tack, there was a lot more weather helm before we even got close to getting a hull out of the water Any suggestions as to whats going on? Both boards were down, jib sheeting was the same, traveller trim was the same....

And for upwind, you would usually wind it in until the leach is almost up against the spreaders and leave it there. If its windy enough to fly a hull, let it twist a bit and play the traveller to keep boat on its toes. There is a school of thought that sheets closer to the centre line, but that can get very sensitive to stalling out the main, espically if the main is a bit older and has a bit more draft.

7 degrees seems to be the accepted wisdom Are you coming out to play on Wednesday night?

Bay week!

Due to work commitments, I struggle to get to the boat to clean every week, so looking at something towards the softer end of he range There's a substantial price difference between the extra and the 66. Any cooment on what i get for the higher price of the 66? The promotional blurb is unsurprisingly vague

What are people using for antifoul on 8.5's at the moment?

Hi paxfish, A lot of the boats here run 2 stroke 8 HP as that is the lightest motor they can carry for racing, and would be propped slightly differently. Personally On my GBE I have a newer version of your motor with the high thurst as well. My logic is that I am happy to sacrifice a knot or two of top speed in return for very positive response while manoeuvring and the knowledge that if the weather is bad there is heaps of low speed grunt on tap to get out of a sticky situation Cheers

Can this run on a windows phone in some form?