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yeah shortening sail quickly is a real nice advantage of cutters.
I have a furling jib and as soon as it starts to get a bit too much I just roll in the jib and go with the stays'l and ease the main... the boat handles beautifully with very little effort at all.
On the other hand, I love having all that sail area on a low wind reach... and gladly fly all the sails.
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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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Here's a pic of my little barge that I modified to have staysail from sloop...
- Typically in a true cutter the mast is aft of where a sloop would be.
- 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