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Twist on a cambered sail

  • 31 Aug 2018 15:40
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    Reply # 6648020 on 6647745
    Anonymous member

    The logic is the same. Rig leech telltales so that you can tell when the sail is stalled. The cambered panels should lift when you sail too high, but luff telltales at a clear window may help.

    With JR, the big plus to upper and lower sheets is when deep reefed and the lower sheet is taken out of play. This is when control of twist is much better than with a single sheet.
  • 31 Aug 2018 13:16
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    Does twist work on a cambered junk sail in the same way as it does on a bermudan mainsail, or is the logic different?

    I am thinking about changing to two-part sheeting to be able to take the sail closer to the centerline, but with this I would get the manual twistability (whee, what a word!), too. However, I am not at all certain that I would know what to do with this on a JR.

    Any easy explanation available?
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