george reiter
New Member
I put a new racing sale on my old style(brass metal fittings for rudder)Sunfish. I am having a great deal of difficulty getting started in winds that would have been no problem with the old regular sail. I am spending a lot of time sailing backwards. The problem seems to be that before I can get going fast enough for the rudder to hold the course against the force of the sail, the bow turns into the wind. Is there any way of trimming the boat, or in fact anything I can do to correct this short of replacing the sail? Once under way its fine, (if I can tack at high enough speed).