Broad Reach in higher windspeeds / at night

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Originally Posted by Jim Cate

Ahh, I now understand why your boat is so unusually fast: you have slacked off the forestay rigging screw so that it doesn't pull back so hard...

Seriously, your analysis is not correct, but far be it for me to argue with a honest to god physicist.

I give up.

Jim

i am sure other cats will report sub 90 deg tacks as well and you will realize sub 90 deg is nothing special in cat world. So we have just average performance and no need to lose sleep over it.