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• Tell me about the advantages of yankee cut jibs on a cutter rig.
  • Our experience with cutters
  • In heavy air and a wet seaway, the higher cut will tend to avoid catching a bunch of green water that might come at it.
  • You won't be giving up sail area
  • I think a Yankee is a great cut sail. It sets high
  • Will your sheet leads move aft far enough?
    • D`Arcy Thank You for that diagram
      • I believe that diagram is an approximation, Tom
        • I agree, the diagram is just a starting point.
        • Damn I am a simple guy and airfoils are complex
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    • Oh good question... I'll have to look at the sheet angles.
  • Gene, are you thinking about the staysail, the jib, or both?
    • Just the jib... as it is now the jib is lower than the stays'l
      • If it's the Pacific Seacraft Orion 27,
        • It is indeed the Orion...
        • It is indeed the Orion...
          • oops double post... sorry
          • Maybe I'm reading your picture wrong, but
            • I tend to agree... the track is too far forward.
              • I also need a better outhaul for the main...
  • Yankee and stysl
    • If the cutter is such a high performance rig, why do you almost never see one on the race course?
      • Cutters race cutters
      • Raced against a cutter years ago..
      • There are plenty of cutter race boats out there
        • There is a difference between having a removable inner forestry and a cutter.
          • Typically in a true cutter the mast is aft of where a sloop would be.
            • Here's a pic of my little barge that I modified to have staysail from sloop...
              • yeah shortening sail quickly is a real nice advantage of cutters.
                • Doing it again, I'd DEFINITELY have a furler. The jib reefs worked but....I'd like to stay off the foredeck these days!
  • John Harries is a big fan of Yankees with a cutter rig