oatsandbeans
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As someone rather new to sailing singlehanded boats ( no jib), I am trying to get my brain around how to sheet the main.
On all the boats that I have sailed with jibs,in winds of 5-10knots I simply set the main sheet up to get the boom on the cenreline and use the main sheet to get the top leech tell tale streaming 70% of the time.
Does this approach work on a Laser?
OK we won't have the boom on the centreline ( it goes on the quarter) but use the top tell tale to control the main sheet tension.
It is clear that this is not the accepted approach as from viewing the posts and readfing the books on the subject everyone seems to set up the main using a specific distance between the mainsheet blocks which then varies depending on the conditions.
In the limited amount of club sailing that I have done using this approach, I appear to be fast, and sail a similar course, but I do get some rather funny looks from the others as my boom sometimes ends up quite far off the centreline.
Please help me, am I completely out to lunch on this??
On all the boats that I have sailed with jibs,in winds of 5-10knots I simply set the main sheet up to get the boom on the cenreline and use the main sheet to get the top leech tell tale streaming 70% of the time.
Does this approach work on a Laser?
OK we won't have the boom on the centreline ( it goes on the quarter) but use the top tell tale to control the main sheet tension.
It is clear that this is not the accepted approach as from viewing the posts and readfing the books on the subject everyone seems to set up the main using a specific distance between the mainsheet blocks which then varies depending on the conditions.
In the limited amount of club sailing that I have done using this approach, I appear to be fast, and sail a similar course, but I do get some rather funny looks from the others as my boom sometimes ends up quite far off the centreline.
Please help me, am I completely out to lunch on this??