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There is a difference between having a removable inner forestry and a cutter.
In Response To: There are plenty of cutter race boats out there ()
I would suggest that true cutters are very much in a minority. Probably about like ketches.
There are reasons for that.
Please don't take that as derogatory. I think the work best a part of tactics for shortening sail (either with or without a removable fore stay or a permanent one). But for pointing and really optimizing air flow and efficiency, if cutters and ketches were so wonderful, you would see a lot of them on race courses.
What percentage of short, medium, and long haul racers have them? I would say only a small fraction.
Most ketches and cutters that I see seldom have their mizzensail or stay sails deployed.
Messages In This Thread
- 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?
- Gene, are you thinking about the staysail, the jib, or both?
- 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.
- Cutters race cutters
- If the cutter is such a high performance rig, why do you almost never see one on the race course?
- John Harries is a big fan of Yankees with a cutter rig
- Our experience with cutters