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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by neilgbj[/i] [br]Yesterday had an interesting experience and learnt something about the boat which you may find useful...went for a day sail with my wife and planned for strong winds... the afternoon saw the wind building and added to the sea breeze made for some high mean wind speeds and pretty massive gusts....we considered options and looking at my course back I thought I would experiment with sailing just under jib alone (rather than just main as perhaps we would normally do)...downwind was obviously fine (with tide) but I actually found that I could point pretty well and in fact we made a really good (and safe, no dramas) passage home. There was an added advantage as we had a lee shore landing and were all ready set up for it ...perfect ! Actually it shows how flexible and well balanced the boat is and I would definately do this again (with tide) Cheers Neil (270) [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.