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Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

25-11-2021, 05:46

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Changing Old School Sail Plan

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Posted By rslifkin

Re: Changing Old School Sail Plan

I agree you'd definitely want enough ballast. But there are plenty of much faster boats that have plenty of ballast down low. And on any boat, having it rigged to be able to reduce sail easily...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

24-11-2021, 14:53

Replies: 74

Changing Old School Sail Plan

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Posted By rslifkin

Re: Changing Old School Sail Plan

Honestly, I feel like you might be better served with a faster boat. Not an all out race boat, but more like the fastest thing that's still sturdy enough to make you happy. You'd probably enjoy the...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

24-11-2021, 14:35

Replies: 74

Changing Old School Sail Plan

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Posted By rslifkin

Re: Changing Old School Sail Plan

Probably a combination of those, and lower aspect rigs being cheaper / easier to build strong enough, particularly before all of the modern materials, construction methods, and computer modeling were...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

23-11-2021, 11:01

Replies: 74

Changing Old School Sail Plan

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Posted By rslifkin

Re: Changing Old School Sail Plan

It's not so much out of proportion as just a different design philosophy. They didn't necessarily have the ability to make a tall, high aspect rig sturdy enough at the time (or didn't trust that...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

23-11-2021, 10:40

Replies: 74

Changing Old School Sail Plan

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Posted By rslifkin

Re: Changing Old School Sail Plan

That's what I'd probably do. And give some thought to where you'd want the reef points.

Realistically, changing the aspect ratio of the sail likely won't buy you much of anything unless you...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

22-11-2021, 16:00

Replies: 74

Changing Old School Sail Plan

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Posted By rslifkin

Re: Changing Old School Sail Plan

Remember, you can always have deeper reefs in a sail to reduce it more when you don't need as much. But it's harder to add sail on the fly.

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