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Forum: Multihull Sailboats 16-01-2021, 11:04
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Re: Rigging an inside shroud upwind screecher on a cat

If you look the TWA for the faster boat will be greater. But you are talking tiny VMG and is only applicable if you are in fact sailing directly to windward. If your destination is at 70 degrees...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 15-01-2021, 00:34
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Posted By Tupaia
Re: Rigging an inside shroud upwind screecher on a cat

Contrary to the obvious when wing on wing I found it better to have the screecher on the windward side and the jib on the leeward side with the jib sheeted a little harder. The wind exiting the front...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 14-01-2021, 09:34
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Posted By Tupaia
Re: Rigging an inside shroud upwind screecher on a cat

Interesting about the CZ still being available, if it is then I will be using it for the replacement. It does discolour with mildew but this has not caused any delamination. Aging is mainly cracking...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 14-01-2021, 00:43
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Posted By Tupaia
Re: Rigging an inside shroud upwind screecher on a cat

I have had 3 screechers. The first was Cuban and designed by Gary Martin. Spectacular sail terrible material. The second was a Doyle NZ, Genesys string sail, too heavy, terrible shape, terrible...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 13-01-2021, 02:02
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Posted By Tupaia
Re: Rigging an inside shroud upwind screecher on a cat

My screecher sheets to my jib tracks on the coach roof. Sheeting angle, measured from the tack to the line of the track, for the jib is 9.8° and the screecher 8.2°.

The screecher is slightly...
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