>Fortunately, I'm not forced to choose, and using both sails on my single gives me the best of both worlds and tremendous versatility. > On your typical Pacific Northwest summer day, wind begins to pick up late morning / early afternoon. I put up the full size Spirit Sail and the Pacific Action sail as soon as the breeze starts. They work best together on a beam reach (wind coming roughly over one shoulder). Besides broaching waves, there is one more problem with beam reach - without a leeboard the drifting to the lee will be about the same as forward progress, so eventually sailing at beam reach will be the same as, say, sailing 135 degrees off the wind (only slower and with more thrill ;-). One minor thing that I don't like about PA is that its brackets screwed to the hull tend to rotate around that single screw - few degrees back and forth. And when they rotate, they leak, no matter what. They should've made them half-inch wider, to use with 2 screws each, - then it would stay put and with some sealant or epoxy wouldn't leak. Yes, PA is somewhat loose when furled on the deck. It doesn't unfurl completely by itself, but few inches of loose piece of fabric flapping around on the deck is annoying. Not dangerous, and probably doesn't even create a lot of windage, but distracting. This can be reduced if you take care to wrap fabric tight around the spars before shoving it under the retaining loop (difficult thing to do in choppy seas, though). May be it needs another loop, few inches further down along the spars. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Dec 24 2006 - 01:17:51 PST
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