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Optimized for controlled conditions
In Response To: That's such a staggering design flaw. 
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() A cruiser would reduce sail to trim for the gusts. A racer has to push the edges, and "stuff happens".
It's a decision (or series of decisions) more than a design flaw.
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- By now most have seen the ORACLE crosing the Line of Death.
- Some needs to be prepared to ease the main
- As Spithill put it, you have to find your limits.
- Yup -- they stuffed the bows
- That's such a staggering design flaw.
- Optimized for controlled conditions
- That started out as about 90 degrees true and moved to "close hauled", they then headed-off -- but it doesn't look deep?
- That's such a staggering design flaw.
