Tack and clew8/18/2023 ![]() Sure, after sailing the right polar angles with your assy for most of the leg, you can go wing and wing to gain/retain tactical advantage for a mark rounding, or to retrieve an underlay, but its not so good for the whole leg. The Beneteau First 25.7 is not really the same as an Elliott or a J70 that are light enough to make money going downwind with a assy, wing and wing. (Note: The headsail tackis the name for the lower corner of the headsail - the sail closest to the front of the boat. The corresponding parts are the same relative to the front of the boat. Marginal changes like this that take time and several races for the crew to dial in are just what the race by race adjustments in PHS accommodate well. The headsail of a sailboat is any sail set forward of the mast (on a single masted boat) or foremast (the mast nearest the bow). Sym kite and pole, with sprit and assy as alternative are standard rig for the class and I very much doubt that a race committee would be interested in the rig 'changes' for PHS purposes. ![]() It doesn't make the boat go faster than it would with a proper sym kite: its a tactical expedient to avoid peeling to a sym (or to use the assy as a chicken chute in strong wind). The setup Ross describes is absolutely standard racing IRC with over J poles. It has a section sailing WnW and making that transition. PS: Here is a sailing guide for a J70 from North. On my 105, the effective wind rage is higher … 12-16kts, but again I use the move tactically when other concerns out weight VMG … like getting separation from a windward competitor when wanting to stay on the course-side I’m on. Above that, you want to start trying to plane. Below that you make better VMG sailing the angles. As Tim suggested, going dead down may be tactically advantageous sometimes, but as far as getting to the bottom mark, it’s usually only faster in a narrow range. On my 105 we practice moving to WnW … flopping the main over or gybing only the spin. Practicing and being competent at that, without the extra equipment and rig changes, has a lot of tactical advantages. ![]() On the J70 (close to your size), they sail WnW all the time. Playing off of what Tim said, you might just want to learn how to fly wing-n-wing. PHS is “managed” differently by each club that uses it, and depending on how often they adjust the rating based on your performance, they may want to adjust yours manually due to this change. since you are competing under PHS, you need to report this mod to whoever is managing the handicaps.
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