Sudden Attraction to Hunters

[sailorboy1]

So you tack down wind, put up the spinnaker, etc. The only time I'm going that dead down wind is in a seaway because there isn't any room to sail to a faster point. Put the main to center, or just drop it, and sail on the head sail for a little while. (And I can sail my BR rig wing-on-wing).

And if you put the main on the spreaders - so what! That's what the chafe patches are there for! If you do it regularly enough you will just have to spend the couple hundred dollars every couple of years to get new ones.

If you really plan to spend most of your sailing life with the wind within 20 degress of dead behind you, then get a differnt boat (or setup a double head sail rig).

So far I don't find the loss of down wind sailing angles to be much compared to my Cal-39. And the extra speed I'm getting more than makes up for the loss of usable angles.

In the end if the B&R rig was such a big negative the boats wouldn't sell. And since in the end this is the most important thing to every boat builder, they would change it.