[Rhodes22-list] Boat doesn't come up into wind

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Hi Dennis,
Thanks for posting that. It has to be one of the clearest 
descriptions of lee helm/weather helm and the remedies for lee helm 
that I have ever read.

Thanks!!

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD


At 07:51 PM 9/8/2014, you wrote:
>Hi Bruce -
>
>Take a look at http://www.great-loop.us/2013/11, a page I put up last year
>about the evils of lee helm and how to avoid it. I should have added more
>content about how each 'cure' can reduce lee helm / increase weather helm -
>but it seems I've gotten caught up in other issues. (Shame on me!)
>
>Have a look, and see what you magic you can work to make your boat head up
>instead of falling off when you release the helm.
>
>Dennis
>Magic Moments
>Off limits; isolated by her newly painted dock :-(
>
>
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>I've only had one other boat besides the Rhodes, but it and everything I
>read sez that when you let everything go, the boat should come up into the
>wind.
>Mine doesn't, unless the wind really gusts it over hard.  On a normal sail,
>even with the jib only modestly unfurled, she sails ahead straight as an
>arrow.  Which is usually nice, but since I single-hand it I bet if I fell
>overboard, I'd feel that was less of an advantage.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bruce M.
>S/v Tuxedo
>'88 refurb
>
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