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• Loose footed main verses captured foot... advantages/disadvantages
  • Loosefoted will be more adjustable
  • I like the loose footed main
    • Shelf foot is more 'efficient'
      • I think that's a fallacy.
        • I would disagree
      • If a loose foot is less efficient, why do many (or most) racer's use it?
        • Obvious answer: control-abilty
      • What little is gained by an "end plate" is more than lost in shape...
        • I would indeed have to change my outhaul.
          • Wouldn't that change your 'Cruising' status?
            • Shhhh... don't tell anybody.
        • That's why the outhaul is led back to the cockpit
  • Two boats - loose foot.
  • I switched to loose foot the suggestion of my sailmaker
    • Had loose footed main on the old Freedom 25, 265'....
    • We had one of the first loose footed mains....