By the time I get it into place - we're on a different course where it's merely another object that's "in the way. Really basic sailing suggests once the boat is "aimed" at a compass point or distant landmark by the helmsman, the jib and main are constantly "worked" by the crew to maximize speed.
How does one set sails that way? By trial and error. Then, cleat 'em up. If you're racing, do it every nano-second. Dan Hill. Dec 16, Hunter Definatly over trimmed sails if you had them in that position on a beam reach. Like others have suggested, purchase some telltales for your sails and study up on their use. Merlin Clark. Oct 26, 2, - - Satellite Beach, FL. Kito, check out the pic below. Using a windex or shroud tell tails Davis, nylon or bits of yarn as high as you can get them to show you the apparent wind direction, this little graphic can help with where your sails should be set.
With a little practice you'll be leaving that other 22 in your dust! Also, try going to the sailboatowner's form online not the app. Look in the forums for Don Guillette. He has a feature spot on sail trim, and he sells a couple products: sail trim user's guide, and sail trim chart. Those will help you understand how to sail fast with the RIGHT amount heel which is actually very little when you compare it to burying the rails.
You will also learn the use of the vang, outhaul, traveler, and cunningham. Those will help you control draft and twist, so you make full use of the wind.
Thanks, Andrew. Thanks for the info. Yes, burying the rails is not best for speed but I had no choice. I was at the helm most of the day and the Admiral would get on me for easing up on the heeling.
When she took the helm she was getting the rails wet and was on it's way to getting the windows washed before I grabbed the tiller Kind of a good problem to have I guess. Last edited: Jun 24, Ray Bowles. Kito, When sailing a beam each with the wind hitting the boat directly on the side or very close to that the sails should be around a 45 degree angle to the boat.
The headsail car should be moved forward so the headsail has a twist. The boom is at a 45 degree angle with the traveller full over and vang loose to start with. This point of sail causes little heal angle. The tell-tails are applied to the headsail at the bottom, middle and top in groups of three.
They are placed on both sides of the sail. The first TT is just back from the leading edge, another behind that and the last behind that. That makes 9 TT's on each side. The main should have TT's on the trailing edge at the end of the batten pocket for a total of 3. Read Don's book or one of the other books on sail trim. Steve Colgate has an excellent book as do many others.
I love to get every bit of performance out of my drag racing car and my 23 San Juan sailboat. I don't mean that every other boat I see causes a race Enjoy your C I loved mine and they can do anything asked of them. Anonymous Jan 6, 1, But even if you get that, it's truly hard to see how it all plays out on the water. And I'm speaking as someone with a graduate education in mathematics. In editing this blog, I realized that I had messed up a calculation in my first draft.
If you sit down to do the calculations, you have to determine what your boat speed will be at a given true wind speed and point of sail angle of the boat to the wind.
Polar performance diagrams will show this, but good luck finding these for any of our dinghy's. So my point is that it's quite difficult to build a mental model of this. Instead, you can get a feel of how it happens on the water without trying to understand why, exactly. I did the math from a guess of a polar diagram for a boat similar to a Laser Bahia at 5 knots wind. If you're not racing, it doesn't matter how accurate this is.
But it should be pretty typical. Remember that the wind the boat feels and you feel is not the true wind, it's the apparent wind. So you're trimming the sails for the apparent wind, and the true wind is in practical terms irrelevant. I'll work through some examples at various points of sail. Here's what it looks like close hauled:.
You're sailing 45 degrees to the true wind, but you're sailing about 30 degrees to the apparent wind. Look at the yarn on the side stay, and you'll see that angle. Remember it, as it's one guide to show you that you're going as high as you can into the wind a better guide is the jib tell-tales when the jib is sheeted in hard, but unless you're sitting forward in the boat, you may not be able to see them - in that case, a good crew can really help.
It feels really fast, as your boat speed is pretty much addingdirectly to the true wind speed to produce apparent wind speed. If you're trimmed correctly, your main sail is sheeted in hard, so the lift force from the sail perpendicular to the sail is more or less sideways to the boat, causing a fair amount of heeling force, which you have to balance with your weight.
Beam reach is when the apparent wind is degrees sideways to the boat. Because of the way boat speed and true wind interact, you've got to go downwind degrees to the true wind 40 degrees past perpendicular to get to a beam reach. Beam reach is the fastest non-planing point of sail. The sail is still working like a wing more power than the downwind parachute mode , but the properly trimmed sails are out farther, so the lift force always perpendicular to the sail is more aligned with the direction the boat is going.
More propulsion, less heel. It doesn't feel as fast as going close-hauled, as the apparent wind speed is less. But the boat speed is faster. As we turn through a broad reach and get the wind behind us for the first time, everything seems to slow down.
That's because when the wind is behind us, our boat speed cancels some of the true wind, so the apparent wind speed slows down.
Note that here it's less than half of the apparent wind close-hauled with the same true wind. If you're racing, you'd better be prepared for a big increase in apparent wind speed as you round the leeward mark. How much does any of this matter? If you're an experienced sailor, you just know it.
You're tuned to the apparent wind, and you're setting your boat for that. So when you fly the kite, the apparent wind moves way forward, and you deal with that. But if you're just learning sailing, it does matter, as it explains the confusing things you're seeing on the water.
It gives you a visual model of sail trim. The yarn on the shrouds will also tell you the precise apparent wind direction, in anything over a few knots. It would be a great senior project for someone to make some polars for our dinghies! For the younger boating enthusiast….
From broad reach to no go zone - Doyou know your points of sail? Name Description 1. Close Hauled A. Big sail used when sailing downwind 2. Run B. Changing your boat direction through about 90 degrees from close hauled to close hauled 3.
Goosewinged C. When you turn away from the wind 4. Spinnaker D. Pulling your sails in when heading up 5.
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